Aliska Brown and Equanda Wearing were recently recognized by the Board of Trustees of Georgetown County School District. Brown and Wearing completed Pathway 3 offered by the Voorhees Center of Excellence for Educator Preparation and Innovation (EPI Center). Pathway 3, the Voorhees Network for Enhanced Teaching Program or V-NET, allows non-certified candidates with a bachelor’s …
Dr. Tondaleya Green-Jackson, Program Director of the Voorhees Center for Excellence for Educator Preparation and Innovation recently served as a panelist on the U.S. Department of Education’s EIR (Education, Innovation and Research) Dissemination Strategies webinar. Alongside an array of EIRgrantees, she highlighted the importance of dissemination strategies to share data and success stories about transformational …
DENMARK, SC – Carrying out their mission to improve educator effectiveness and raise student achievement in high-need schools, a group of educators from the Voorhees University Center of Excellence for Educator Preparation and Innovation (EPI Center) recently spent a week working in Chicago and visiting schools. The Chicago SEED (Supporting Effective Educator Development) team met with leaders …
August 6, 2023, Columbia, SC – Voorhees University President Dr. Ronnie Hopkins hosted an Educator’s Breakfast at Bible Way Church of Atlas Road in Columbia to reinvigorate the passion for teaching and learning and to celebrate the sacred calling of South Carolina’s K-12 educators. Dr. Hopkins spoke of the need for educators with “good vibes” …
DENMARK, SC – Officials with the Voorhees University Center of Excellence for Educator Preparation and Innovation are among a select few in the country participating in the 2023-2024 National Improvement Science Teaching Course. The course is offered by the Improvement Collective, which is an organization that strives to help create healthier systems that nurture all children …
DENMARK, SC – A team of educators from South Carolina recently spent several weeks on the Caribbean Island of Barbados studying ways to impact teaching, learning and educator preparation. The Voorhees University Center of Excellence for Educator Preparation and Innovation (EPI Center) received funding from the United States Department of Education to participate in the Fulbright-Hays …
Denmark, SC – Voorhees’ Provost and Vice President, Dr. Damara Hightower Mitchell has been selected to participate in the Executive Leadership Academy (ELA). This yearlong program is jointly sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), and the American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI). Dr. Hightower-Mitchell was one of …
On April 12, 2023, Cynthia Pryor Hardy, founder of OnPoint Media, LLC, moderated the Fostering Collaboration for Systemic Change in Teaching and Learning Symposium. Featured topics included solutions for teacher shortages, impact of Covid –19 on teaching practices and student learning, best practices to optimizing connectivity amongst stakeholders, use of school funding to address school …
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From left to right: Cynthia Hardy, Walter Griffin (SC Certified Teacher), Craig King (Palmetto State Teacher Association), Javion Simpson (SC Certified Teacher), Dr. Tondaleya Jackson (Director of the Center for Excellence in Educator Preparation and Innovation at Voorhees University, SC Certified Teacher), and Chelsea Maclin, Honali Adrian Robinson, and Aliska Brown (Center for Excellence in …
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Congratulations to Mrs. Valerie Jamison, for being chosen as Williams Memorial Elementary School’s Teacher of the Year! I am honored to be chosen as Williams Memorial Elementary School’s 2023-2024 Teacher of the Year. I am humbly grateful for this honor. Every school day, I eagerly await my students’ arrival. I realize this is another blessed …
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