Teacher of the Year: North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction has selected this year’s Teacher of the Year…and it is Wendy Miller of Cove City, a teacher at James W. Smith Elementary in Cove City. Host Melinda Penkava talks with Mrs. Miller about her tricks of the trade, and how she keeps her passion for teaching alive. (12:00)
Teacher Burn-Out: Melinda Penkava talks with Alton Ballance of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Ballance leads teacher retreats on Ocracoke Island. He believes fishing trips and visits to lighthouses provide much needed rejeuvenation for teachers burned out by the demands of their profession. Listener Call-In. (20:00)
NIMBYism: One of Chapel Hill’s major thoroughfares gets a new name this weekend. Airport Road will become Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard on Sunday. State of Things producer Cori Princell has an address on Airport Road, and she was surprised at her reaction to the change. (4:00)
Percy Heath: Wilmington-born jazz great Percy Health passed away last Thursday. Melinda Penkava talks with Maurice Martinez, professor of education at UNC-Wilmington, about Percy Heath’s life and work. (17:30)