This breakout session will provide an overview of North Carolina's Advanced Teaching Roles initiative and illustrate the ways Advanced Teaching Roles is increasing collaboration across the school building while providing embedded professional support for developing teachers and extending the reach of effective educators. Additional benefits include effectively distributing leadership across the school building and improving instructional quality in all classrooms. The presentation will incorporate practitioners' perspectives (we will feature at least one school district who is already implementing ATR) and videos from districts who are effectively implementing these models in their schools. We will also provide the executive summary of BEST NC's Advanced Teaching Roles brief. To learn more, please visit
www.bestnc.org/advancedroles.