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