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South Carolina Course Alignment Project to strengthen alignment between high school and college so that South Carolina students experience a seamless transition from highs choola to postsecondary learning.
This alignment will help:
- better prepare students for college expectations.
- create clear pathways and decrease redundancy.
- reduce the need for remedial instruction.
- reduce college retention and graduation rates.
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The cluster concept will allow a focus on academics and take courses following a chosen career plan. View videos on all 16 Career Clusters.
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Through regional collaboration, TechReadySC™ will build a more competitive workforce in the Upstate by providing innovative services to meet the economy's existing and emerging human performance needs.
Supported by a two-year grant from AdvanceSC [Duke-Energy], TechReadySC’s first major charge is to develop a standardized curriculum among the five Upstate partner colleges leading to specialty certificates and an associate’s degree in the area of mechatronics technology. In addition, innovative marketing and recruiting strategies are being implemented to increase the pipeline of highly-skilled students to retain and attract new industry to the Upstate.
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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.
The SC Economic Education Council promotes economic development in K-12 Education.
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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.
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.
The Blackboard Academic Suite is an online application aimed at providing a wider variety of successful, sustainable professional development via the Internet for K-12 teachers, regardless of their location and school-year schedule.
The Professional Education Associations website. provides hypertext links to professional associations for teachers, teachers-in-training, graduate students, and educational researchers.
The Professional Associations for Educators exists to help members value and promote their profession as well as nurture their individual careers. View the Professional associations for educators .pdf file
United Way of the Piedmont is a private, not-for-profit organization governed by a local board of volunteers and as such is accountable to the local community. Our services cover three counties: Cherokee, Spartanburg and Union. Our mission is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
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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.
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