Mission
The Upstate Regional Education Center is established to coordinate and facilitate the delivery of information, resources, and services to students, educators, employers, and the community.
Goals
- Facilitate and coordinate services to students and adults for career planning, employment seeking, training, and other support functions.
- Disseminate information and market resources and professional development programs available to educators.
- Work to improve awareness in school districts to support compliance and accountability pursuant to the Personal Pathways (EEDA).
- Facilitate and coordinate information and resources for employers, including but not limited to education partnerships, career-oriented learning, service learning, and training opportunities.
- Facilitate local connections among businesses and community partners and those involved in education.
- Work with school districts and institutions of higher education to promote and market workforce education programs and other post-secondary educational opportunities available within Cherokee, Spartanburg, and Union Counties and South Carolina.
Commitments
- Provide professional development and EEDA accountability information to educators.
Conduct local needs assessments (Upstate Gap Analysis).
- Serve as a network of career planning, employment seeking with education and training service providers.
- Develop and facilitate partnerships between business, community agencies, and educational institutions.
- Coordinate the development of educational programs to meet economic development need for Cherokee, Spartanburg, and Union Counties.
Mission
By proactively supporting each other, the REC Coordinators communicate a statewide voice to facilitate the implementation of Personal Pathways to Success. The team connects business, education, adults in career transition, and community partners to develop an educated, skilled, and globally competitive workforce that will generate strong economic growth in South Carolina.
Vision
The REC Coordinator’s team is the national model of excellence and is recognized as the connector for education and business partnerships for sustained growth through premier educational experiences and economic development, resulting in improved quality of life for the state of South Carolina.
Key Strategies
- Market Personal Pathways to Success.
- Coordinate and facilitate information, resources, and professional development programs to educators.
- Work effectively as a team.
- Coordinate and facilitate resources to school districts for compliance and accountability according to the EEDA.
- Coordinate and facilitate local connections among businesses and those involved in education.
- Coordinate and facilitate information and resources to employers, including education partnerships, career-oriented learning, training services, and others.
- Coordinate and facilitate with school districts and institutions of higher education to create and coordinate workforce education programs.
- Coordinate and facilitate services to students and adults for career planning, employment seeking, training, and other support functions.
- Lead implementation of Connect to Business.
- Lead implementation of Kuder for Adults
- Develop metrics for measuring success.