A word from our partners
“We know South Carolina’s greatest resource is its people. Without a high-quality education, we squander that resource. By supporting new teachers, we can help guarantee all children in the state will have high-quality teachers in their classrooms who will stay. “
Jon Pedersen, Dean, College of Education and Human Sciences at Oklahoma State University
A word from our partners
“My entire career has been invested in the recruitment, preparation retention of teachers in South Carolina. SC-TEACHER gives us time and space to examinethese three aspects of our educational system focusing on SC-centric data and information. With those, we can make informed decisions and policy recommendations about the teaching profession in the Palmetto State.”
Cindy Van Buren, Assistant Dean for Professional Partnerships,
College of Education at UofSC
A word from our partners
“The significant work of SC-TEACHER is grounded in South Carolina context. Strengthening the relationship among research, policy, and practice provides the state’s policymakers and educators with much-needed guidance in making decisions for the short- and long-term around matters of recruitment, preparation, and retention.”
Dr. P. Ann Byrd
CTQ President & Partner
A word from our partners
“There are ivory towers to tear down and trusting relationships to build up – this takes time, effort, and dedicated resources. SC-TEACHER provides the resources to answer the important questions about educator recruitment, preparation and retention in South Carolina.”
Dr. Lisa Johnson, Associate Dean,
College of Education at Winthrop University
A word from our partners
“It is one thing to develop good data on the teaching profession; it is another thing to work with school practitioners to use the evidence to recruit, prepare, and retain the teachers our students need. This is the job of SC-TEACHER.”
Barnett Berry, Founding Director of ALL4SC and Research Professor in the College of Education
Quick References
SC-TEACHER is the South Carolina Teacher Education Advancement Consortium through Higher Education Research.
SC-TEACHER will examine the broad landscape of teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention practices in South Carolina – and build and deploy a state-centric, longitudinal database system to understand statewide issues and best practices for establishing protocols and to maintain a data infrastructure necessary to answer key questions posed by policymakers and practitioners.
OBJECTIVES
1.
Understand the effect of various strategies on teacher outcomes in South Carolina in order to inform the design of Educator Preparation Programs;
2.
Serve as a resource center for South Carolina by coordinating and disseminating high-quality research for and by all of the state’s school districts and universities in support of equitable learning for all children; and
3.
Provide evidence of effective practices that positively impact teacher effectiveness as determined by the South Carolina Teacher Standards 4.0 Rubric.
DISTRICT PARTNERS
Darlington County School District
Fairfield County School District
Kershaw County Schools
Lexington School District 2
Lexington School District 4
Newberry County Schools
Richland School District 2
School District 5 of Lexington and Richland Counties
Union County Public Schools
HIGHER EDUCATION PARTNERS
Columbia College
EPIC at the University of North Carolina
Furman University
University of South Carolina
Winthrop University
STATE PARTNERS
Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement (CERRA)
Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ)
Education Oversight Committee (EOC)
Research, Evaluation and Measurement Center at UofSC (REM)
South Carolina Commission on Higher Education (CHE)
South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE)

DR. THOMAS E. HODGES
Director

DR. CINDY VAN BUREN
Co-Director

GINA KUNZ
Co-Director