Information for Education Professionals
Welcome Education Professionals!
The Trident Regional Education Center is committed to provide relevant information for you. Please visit the site often as we will continue to update its information and features.
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These pages shall include information and resources to assist educational professionals in their daily responsibilities.
Useful Links
Office of Professional Development
The Office of Professional Development asks, What Matters Most? Teaching for America's Future, the highly regarded report of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, asks this nation to get serious about standards for both student and teacher performance and calls for the reinvention of teacher professional development as a means to the end.
SC Economic Education Council
The SC Economic Education Council promotes economic development in K-12 Education.
Chamber of Commerce
Additional Resources
New Carolina
New Carolina Declaration. We, the tenacious people of New Carolina, declare independence from mediocrity. We will reach beyond past mistakes and build on historic successes toward a bright future that lifts our families, our schools, our businesses. From this day forward, we will demonstrate a new will and forge a new way. With tireless passion, bold leadership and decisive action, we will silence the nay-sayers, the doubters, the cynics. We will encourage the innovators and teachers, and celebrate the courageous. In doing so, we will become a leader in public education, entrepreneurial success, personal income and quality of life. Each day we will reach for, and push each other, until one day the world will acknowledge us as ‘The New Land of Opportunity’. New energy. New ideas. New action. New Jobs.
Center for Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement (CERRA)
The purpose of the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, & Advancement (CERRA) is to provide leadership in identifying, attracting, placing and retaining well-qualified individuals for the teaching profession in our state. In doing so, CERRA will respond to changing needs for teachers from underrepresented populations, in critical subject fields and in under-served geographical areas in South Carolina. The Center will work cooperatively with other organizations to promote the teaching profession. Visit the CERRA website for more information.
Division of Educator Quality and Leadership
State Superintendent Inez M. Tenenbaum created the Division of Educator Quality and Leadership to focus intensively on providing a highly qualified teacher and leader in every classroom and school. South Carolina's work to improve teacher quality has won national recognition and respect. "Quality Counts," the annual education evaluation published by the respected national magazine Education Week, ranked South Carolina's teacher quality initiatives number one in the nation in 2003 and 2004 and number two in 2005. Visit the Division of Educator Quality and Leadership website for more information.
E-learning South Carolina
The e-learning South Carolina program is an online application aimed to provide a wider variety of successful, sustainable professional development via the Internet for K-12 teachers, regardless of their location and school-year schedule.
Professional Education Associations
The Professional Education Associations website provides hypertext links to professional associations for teachers, teachers-in-training, graduate students, and educational researchers.
Professional Associations for Educators
The Professional Associations for Educators exist to help members value and promote their profession as well as nurture their individual careers. View the Professional associations for educators (pdf file).
The Education Foundation
The Education Foundation, an initiative of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, was founded in 1995 to improve the region's economy by fostering a strong public education system. The foundation believes that partnerships between the business community and the schools can contribute to positive change and help prepare all students for success in the workplace.