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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thrilled that EPIC’s inaugural newsletter is now live! Click the link below to learn more about the great work happening at EPIC and to sign up to receive our quarterly newsletter. epic.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Excited to see this paper online at Journal of Teacher Education! Student teaching placements matter and so we assessed EPPs’ access to high quality placements, whether EPPs make high quality placements, and what predicts making high quality placements. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

EPIC is at the NCARE conference! Excited to support and participate in education research in NC.

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Tom Swiderski @tswid.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Recently I shared a new pub from me & colleagues on student absenteeism. To accompany this, we've also produced a one-pager to share key takeaways in brief! Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... One-pager: epic.unc.edu/wp-content/u... @sarahcfuller.bsky.social @kevincbastian.bsky.social

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 22/09/2025

The Relationship Between Student Attendance and Achievement, Pre- and Post-COVID journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Here’s a new perspective piece at EdNC focused on full time principal internships in NC. Good news is that the state has decided to fund them for the 2025-26 year! But the issue—questions about the importance of the internship and funding for it—will still be there. www.ednc.org/perspective-...

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Perspective | Maintaining North Carolina’s excellence in principal preparation

Without a state budget, future principals in North Carolina face a limited internship opportunity — three months instead of 10.

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Each year NC public schools employs more than 20,000 teaching assistants (TAs). Those individuals may be a promising source of future teachers. With that in mind, we investigated the TA to teacher pipeline in NC. Four interesting findings emerged: epic.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I am excited to see this work in print! With colleagues Tim Drake and Andrew Otte we used data from NC to assess how characteristics of principal interns and their internship experiences predict movement into a school administrator position. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Shout out to @epic-unc.bsky.social colleagues Rachel Rana and @mrosie.bsky.social for their presentations today at the NC Learning Research Network session! @ncpublicschools.bsky.social @ehutt.bsky.social @t-h-a-d.bsky.social

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Very excited to release our annual evaluation report for the NC Principal Fellows program. We look forward to continuing to work with NCPFP to provide data and evidence that fuels program improvement and the leadership pipeline in NC. epic.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Excited to release, with coauthors Camille Mikkelsen and @sarahcfuller.bsky.social, a new research brief on NC’s support personnel workforce (counselors, social workers, school psychologists) through the pandemic epic.unc.edu/wp-content/u... A few key findings:

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

New (and early) work from EPIC on paid teacher residency programs in TX epic.unc.edu/wp-content/u.... Much thanks to coauthors @sarahcfuller.bsky.social and Andrew Otte. Several key findings stand out:

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Kevin Bastian @kevincbastian.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Excited to be part of this work with @tswid.bsky.social and @sarahcfuller.bsky.social. Important to think about school attendance and how to promote learning in and out of school.

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