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Common Core State Standards Implementation Support for South Carolina
The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) requested the Southeast Comprehensive Center's (SECC) assistance in working with SCDE staff in preparing professional development for schools and districts implementing the Common Core State Standards in both content areas of English/language arts (ELA) and mathematics. SECC program associates worked from areas of need identified by SCDE staff to prepare and present professional development activities to SC teachers and administrators. Following the professional development, additional technical assistance support will include reviewing needs assessments completed by stakeholders from SC districts to identify additional professional development opportunities and researching implementation strategies around a number of identified topics including, but not limited to, informational text, vocabulary comprehension, and writing for ELA and basic operations/equations and probability and statistics for mathematics so that SCDE staff can provide such resources to their schools and districts. SC is rolling out professional development during the current school year and continues to ask for SECC support in its efforts.
College- and Career-Ready Students - Priority
Current project work: Support for Implementing Common Core State Standards Project
This project is in the following state: South Carolina.
Previous Work Updates
2015
June
SECC facilitated a kickoff meeting of the SEA’s internal team in June to plan for reviewing policy, literature, and practices relative to statewide uniform grading. Internal team members voluntarily joined subgroups in which they will perform applicable tasks as needed for making a recommendation pertaining to the matter to the state board for implementation in all schools possibly in August 2017.
2014
December
SECC staff continue to support SCDE with the development of an agency-wide shared calendar and creation of a virtual space for agency professional development offerings and agency use.
November
SECC is continuing to support the SCDE with the development of a virtual space and cofacilitation of meetings across the state. SECC is also assisting the SCDE with the development of an agency-wide calendar for professional development.
October
SECC staff are continuing the work of the Building Shared Capacity Group through seeking the assistance of the deputy superintendent of School Effectiveness. SECC is planning to work with the deputy superintendent to create a virtual space where shared professional development activities can be posted along with all professional development offerings from the Division of School Effectiveness. SECC staff are also assisting the SCDE in the development of a working meeting with SCDE staff and business leaders from across the state to provide input on the definition of career ready for math and ELA standards.
2012
September
During September, SECC program associates completed an Information Request for South Carolina in response to the SEA’s need for information about CCSS high school progression, Response to Intervention, special needs students, and textbook decisions related to the CCSS.
August
The SCDE asked for guidance in making decisions about course offerings in high school now that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have been adopted and are being implemented. In response to this request, SECC staff complied resources related to how students progress through high school using the CCSS for English/language arts and mathematics. The document provides assistance and resources to SC in its planning high school course offerings and descriptions.
March
In February 2012, SECC program associates researched and provided resources in the form of an annotated bibliography focusing on identified topics for upcoming professional development related to the Common Core State Standards for English/language arts topics of vocabulary comprehension and writing to support upcoming professional development activities.
February
In February 2012, SECC program associates researched and provided resources in the form of an annotated bibliography focusing on identified topics for upcoming professional development related to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English/language arts (informational text) and mathematics. SECC program associates also shared the live video link of support videos for CCSS mathematics with South Carolina Department of Education staff.
January
In January 2012, SECC program associates and South Carolina Department of Education staff reviewed the evaluations and needs assessments garnered during the December 2011 professional development activities provided by SECC. SECC program associates assisted in reviewing data to ascertain the various professional development activities requested by the districts.
