CarolinaCrED complements the College of Education’s impact on the recruitment, preparation, and retention of quality educators in South Carolina.
Together, with our partners, we know CarolinaCrED is improving the practice of educators serving South Carolina’s 700,000+ students. We support leaders and learners statewide to build capacity that improves teaching and learning through a variety of programs and services, as shown by the numbers (see graphics on right). And there’s more. Shared stories show how innovation in partnerships make a difference.
July 26, 2022
CarolinaCAP – Year Three Annual Report
The Carolina Collaborative for Alternative Preparation (CarolinaCAP) is a high-quality, targeted alternative preparation pathway administered by the University of South Carolina (UofSC) in…
July 15, 2022
From Knowing to Listening: A Coach’s Journey
By Melissa Klosterman Once upon a time… There was a sagey old teacher who thought that she knew everything about helping rookie teachers. Today there is a wiser, even older teacher who knows…
July 15, 2022
An Alternative Certification Pathway You Want to Support
By Kathy Schwalbe Recently, a South Carolina teacher posed a question about policymakers continuing to entertain the idea of “shortcuts” for people to become teachers in our state. She asked, “How do…
June 14, 2022
Rising to the Challenge
By Brad Washington I knew sooner or later that a classroom would be calling my name. I worked with the Boys & Girls Club for more than ten years and as a behavior interventionist for seven years…
June 2, 2022
CarolinaTIP: A Promising Solution to the Teacher Shortage
By Nicole Skeen, University Induction Coordinator | UofSC College of Education When my husband and I found out we were expecting, we did everything in our power to prepare. We read books, attended…
June 2, 2022
Supporting Novice Teachers in the Time of COVID-19
by Angela Adams, Lead Coach, Carolina Teacher Induction Program
April 2020
June 2, 2022
Bridging the Gap with Support and Planning
by Madalyn Hazlett Dreher High School Mathematics Teacher At the end of my first year of teaching, I was asked to give one positive story that came from that school year. I could not come up with a…
June 2, 2022
Finding My Rhythm as a New Teacher
by Carson Coomes, Orchestra Director, Blythewood Middle School As a fourth grader, I remember being shuffled down to my school’s auditorium one morning for a performance from the fifth grade strings…
June 2, 2022
Belief and Support: What First-Year Teachers Need
by Yesenia Solis-Laboy, Second Grade Teacher, Lake Carolina Elementary It was our open house two days before the start of school. I was excited and anxious about meeting my students and their…
June 2, 2022
One More Time
by Alexis Kelly, Fifth Grade Teacher, H.E. Corley Elementary There I am, nervously pacing around the room as students slowly filter in. It’s the first day of in-person learning for the year and I…
June 2, 2022
Finding the Light
by Ashley Harmon, Science Teacher, Blythewood Middle School As the early sun begins to rise from the horizon, I turn my classroom key to a series of clicking sounds as the lock’s mechanisms shift. I…
April 28, 2022
From Obstacle to Opportunity: The Story of an Accidental Middle School Teacher
From the time I can remember my answer to the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” was always the same. A teacher. But life is a series of paths filled with unexpected twists and…
March 23, 2022
CarolinaCAP – Q2 Report
CarolinaCAP continues to meet the needs of South Carolina school districts by supporting candidates who want to teach in schools across the state. Read more about program impact in the Year Two Q2…
December 9, 2021
CarolinaCAP – Y2 Q3 Report
CarolinaCAP continues to meet the needs of South Carolina school districts by supporting candidates who want to teach in schools across the state. Read more about program impact in the Year Two Q3…
December 9, 2021
CarolinaCAP – Y2 Q1 Report
CarolinaCAP continues to meet the needs of South Carolina school districts by supporting candidates who want to teach in schools across the state. Read more about program impact in the Year Two Q1…
December 9, 2021
CarolinaCAP – Year Two Annual Report
Executive Summary The University of South Carolina (UofSC), Mira Education, and rural school districts in South Carolina are in partnership building a three-year, high-quality alternative teacher…
January 29, 2021
Life Didn’t Come with a Map
Adadra Neville Social Studies Teacher at Williston Elko Middle School We all remember the Robert Frost poem about two roads diverging in the woods. I’ve thought about that concept many times…
January 11, 2021
CarolinaCAP Year Two Q2 Report
CarolinaCAP continues to meet the needs of South Carolina school districts by supporting candidates who want to teach in schools across the state. Read more about program impact in the Year Two Q2…