edPIRATE

Earn $41,000 in living stipend while obtaining a Master’s of Arts in Teaching

The Program:

The edPIRATE program is a collaboration between East Carolina University and our partner districts of Greene county schools, Lenoir county schools, Elizabeth City-Pasquotank schools, Tyrrell county schools, Perquimans county schools and Washington County Schools. The program is patterned after the National Teacher Residency model and is designed to assist residents (we refer to our participants as residents) in obtaining a master’s degree and an INITIAL teacher certification simultaneously in a little over a year (13 months). Our program offers a $41,000 living stipend to our residents paid over the 13 months of the program. In exchange and upon completion of the program, they agree to serve as a teacher for three years in our partner districts. There are four components to our program — coursework, internship, induction support and school leadership.

Our edPIRATE partnership is supported through Department of Education Federal Teacher Quality Partnership grant- S336S2017-22A.

Mission:

edPIRATE utilizes the power of collaboration between ECU teacher education and community partners to reimagine and grow/build rural education.

Vision:

edPIRATE equips educators to lead rural classrooms that are humanizing, asset-based, and empowering.

Vision of Effective Teaching in this Rural Educational Justice MAT:

• Rural teachers engage themselves and their students in important questions of democracy.
• Rural teachers effectively utilize practices that engage, elevate and expand the wealth of rural communities resources and literacy tools to empower themselves and others (e.g., rural resourcefulness, rural ingenuity, rural familism, rural community and rural unity (Crumb et al)
• Rural teachers effectively integrate students’ funds of knowledge and disciplinary inquiry and literacy practices.
• Rural teachers recognize school is a hub and home of the community.