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
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Understand the effect of various strategies on teacher outcomes in South Carolina in order to inform the design of Educator Preparation Programs;
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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
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Provide evidence of effective practices that positively impact teacher effectiveness as determined by the South Carolina Teacher Standards 4.0 Rubric.