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Host Doug Keel interviews administrators, teachers, students, parents, and others interested in improving teaching and learning in South Carolina. Produced by the South Carolina Department of Education in partnership with South Carolina Public Radio.
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At a luncheon in Columbia on October 14th, Healing Species, a program using rescue dogs to teach compassion to students in high risk, high poverty schools in SC, was named as the 2016 Dick and Tunky Riley WhatWorksSC Award for Excellence. Former U.S. Secretary of Education and South Carolina Governor Dick Riley presented the award, which highlights innovative educational initiatives throughout the state. This week's podcast will feature a description of the work done by Healing Species, and will
With 18,500 students in 32 schools, Public Charter Schools in the Palmetto State are making a profound educational impact. New schools are added on a yearly basis and the 2016-17 school year finds a new Superintendent leader, Elliot Smalley. Find out about opportunities charter schools provide and learn about the growth and curricular expansion these schools offer to South Carolina students.
This week's podcast features the audio from the September Carolina Classrooms program which focused on bullying and suicide prevention and how these and other social issues affect student health and the learning process. Guests on this program (available at www.scetv.org/education), in addition to host Dawn Samples, were Alex Karydi, Ph.D., Program Director, SC Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative, and Jan Urbanski, Ed.D., Director of Safe and Humane Schools, Institute on Family and Neighborhood
The mission of the Office of Family and Community Engagement (FACE) is to support partnerships between community organizations, families and schools in an effort to coordinate access of resources for all children in South Carolina. On this week's podcast we'll chat with the Office Director and learn about some of the ongoing efforts to encourage volunteerism in our public schools. On the same podcast, the audio from a video produced by the National Dropout Prevention Center at Clemson extolling
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All this week, PBS and SCETV will feature programs and documentaries as well as special episodes of Nova , Frontline and PBS Newshour , a new film from POV , and the premiere of TED Talks: Education Revolution . And on Saturday, September 17th , special PBS programs take an in-depth look at the state of education cross the nation, the challenges facing today’s students and new models of learning. On Saturday's telecast from 2:00 - 6:00 p.m., locally-produced ETV American Graduate segments that
State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman gives remarks to principals, district personnel, and superintendents at the 2016 SCASA Innovative Ideas Institute in Myrtle Beach. The Superintendent's appearance at this conference is an annual occurrence.
Dr. Hector Flores became the President of the SCGSSM on April 15th, replacing Dr. Murray Brockman, who retired. Dr. Flores, a native of Peru, came to the Hartsville School from the Rochester Institute of Technology where he served as Dean of Graduate Studies. Listeners will enjoy hearing about his personal and professional backgrounds,as well as some of his expectations for the school's faculty and students.
Registration is currently underway for the fall 2016 VirtualSC term and Deirdre Edwards, Curriculum Team Leader in the VirtualSC Office, joins us to give those important dates and much more useful information to veterans and newcomers to South Carolina's Online Learning Program.
Each August, Speaking of Schools reaches out to the State Teacher of the Year for the prior year and asks him/her to share some of the personal, professional and once in a lifetime experiences that person had in representing South Carolina's 50,000+ teaching professionals. This edition of the podcast features our conversation with Suzanne Koty who gladly shares some of her experiences and offers listeners a look into her professional future.
Two Teachers at the Ashley River Creative Arts School in Charleston have taken steps to involve their entire elementary school community by using the robotics team to showcase inquiry based learning. Matthew Carrington and Jennifer Waldron share their enthusiasm for and knowledge of the project on this week's podcast.
This three part series, sponsored by Furman's Riley Institute and the University's Osher Lifelong Learning Center, examined what matters most in early childhood development and what interventions and supports are in place here in South Carolina. The series looked at the ways in which educational institutions, parents, students, non-profits, and members of the community work together to build up our schools and prepare young people to be successful adults who are contributing members of society.
This three part series, sponsored by Furman's Riley Institute and the University's Osher Lifelong Learning Center, examined what matters most in early childhood development and what interventions and supports are in place here in South Carolina. The series looked at the ways in which educational institutions, parents, students, non-profits, and members of the community work together to build up our schools and prepare young people to be successful adults who are contributing members of society.
This three part series, sponsored by Furman's Riley Institute and the University's Osher Lifelong Learning Center, examined what matters most in early childhood development and what interventions and supports are in place here in South Carolina. The series looked at the ways in which educational institutions, parents, students, non-profits, and members of the community work together to build up our schools and prepare young people to be successful adults who are contributing members of society.
This is an annual event on Speaking of Schools , offering some of the selections of the All State Choruses and Bands from their spring concerts. This is the second of two programs featuring these outstanding middle, junior high and high school musicians.
This is an annual event on Speaking of Schools, a rendering of some of the selections of the All State Choruses and Bands from their spring concerts. Join us for the first of two programs featuring these outstanding middle, junior high and high school musicians.
While school has been out for nearly a month, plenty of news items you may have missed are featured on this week's podcast.
The 2016 National Teacher of the Year receives the Crystal Apple awarded to teachers attaining that distinction, and this year's recipient is Jahana Hayes, a history teacher from Connecticut. Comments from Jahana and President Obama are a part of this weeks podcast. The ceremony was recorded at the annual gathering of State Teachers of the Year at the White House.
This topic, involving not only vocabulary from a second language, deals with teaching other subject areas in conjunction with the language, and was May's Carolina Classrooms topic on SCETV . Host Dawn Samples is directly involved in language immersion in her daily work and she is joined by Ruta Couet , World Language Education Associate from the Department of Education staff.
The annual Teacher of the Year gala is featured on this week's podcast. Listeners will hear comments from State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman Keynote speaker Ben Ingram (Jeopardy Tournament of Champions winner), 2016 Teacher of the Year Suzanne Koty, and after the announcement of the 2017 State Top Teacher, comments from the winner, Jennifer Wise.
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