The Piedmont Triad Education Consortium is a collaboration of the seventeen K-12 school districts in central North Carolina and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Consortium members have created a climate in which the strengths of each agency join to become the power of one committed educational community. PTEC's primary purpose is to provide professional growth opportunities for educators.

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Through a formal alliance with UNC Greensboro, PTEC's office is in Room 116 of the School of Education. The alliance meets areas of need for developing educational professionals that otherwise are not met within each individual organization.