DURHAM

CCTI: Wake-Durham is an in-district educator preparation scholarship program designed to support you as a beginning educator through effective practices, essential knowledge and skills for student success. Our program is an NCDPI-approved Educator Preparation Program (EPP) for those who would like to earn their license through the Residency Pathway. Participants complete all program requirements while teaching full-time in their districts.

Proficient completion of the CCTI: Wake-Durham program leads to your North Carolina Professional Educators License. 

Program Overview

CCTI: The CCTI Team describes the program’s impact on your teaching career.

Register for an Information Session

Click on either of the links above to learn more about CCTI or register for an information session to talk with Lisa about CCTI.

• Options for Learning: CCTI-Wake-Durham offers virtual or in-person class sessions.

• Connections: The cohort model allows participants to meet face-to-face and online with other beginning teachers to grow together.

• Coaching: CCTI: Wake-Durham Coaches help each participant through the first year as a beginning teacher.

• Two cohort options: A Fall cohort to begin in July, and a Spring cohort to begin in January (Special Education educators can apply to the Fall cohort only).

To apply to CCTI: Wake-Durham, you must meet the following eligibility requirements:

• Teach or be in pursuit of a teaching position in one of the following areas in the Wake County Public School System or Durham Public Schools:

  • Elementary Education

  • Secondary Education (Middle and High)

    • Math

    • Science

    • Social Studies

    • English Language Arts

  • K-12 Additional Content Areas

    • English as a Second Language

    • Fine/Performing Arts

    • World/Classical Languages

    • Health/Physical Education

  • CTE: Career and Technical Education

  • Special Education: General Curriculum

     

• Have a 2.7 or higher cumulative GPA.

• Have completed 24 credit hours with a C or better or earned a passing score on the NC content exam for your licensure area.

Denial letters will communicate what is needed to qualify. 

You must submit the following as part of your application:

• Official transcripts

• Licensure exam score report if you have them

• Copy of emergency license (if applicable)

• Resume

Once you have your supporting documents, submit your application.

For admission to CCTI’s Fall Cohort or Spring Cohort, there are two application windows for the following candidates:

• New hires who qualify for a residency license

• Candidates with a permit to teach who qualify for a residency license

• Candidates with an emergency license who qualify for a residency license

Fall Cohort Application Window: February 1–March 31

For a June 17 start date for SPED; July 15 for Course 1. Application decisions will be announced on April 8. SPED GC educators can only apply for this Fall Cohort.

Spring Cohort Application Window: September 1–October 31

For a January 6 start date. Application decisions will be announced on November 8.

Denial letters will communicate what is needed to qualify. Payroll deduction begins in August for the Fall Cohort and in January for the Spring Cohort.

Once you have been accepted to CCTI: Wake-Durham, you will

1. Complete the Residency License (RL) Form

2. Complete the enrollment module and Canvas instructions

3. Attend and participate in the CCTi Orientation

4. Begin Course 1 in July or January

We are excited to welcome you to the CCTI: Wake-Durham educator preparation program and look forward to getting to know you better and growing and learning together!

Lisa Sonricker, Senior Administrator, CCTI: Wake-Durham, Email Lisa Sonricker 

Devin Aucoin, Administrator, CCTI: Wake-Durham, Email Devin Aucoin

Latoya Wright, Coordinating Teacher, CCTI: Wake-Durham, Email Latoya Wright 

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