Collaboration Through Student-Centered PLCs

Shanna Towery, a South Carolina middle school ELA teacher, explores how to revive PLCs through designing creating a collaborative environment centered on students.

Student Collaboration in the Virtual Classroom

Victoria Young, a South Carolina teacher, shares three tips to increase student collaboration in the virtual classroom.

Misery Loves Company or Better Together?

Charlene Aldrich, a retired South Carolina Literacy professor, explores the obstacles to collaboration as she provides ways educators can participate in intradisciplinary collaboration, grade level collaboration and syncrhonous school-wide collaboration.

Literacy Coaching During A Pandemic

Meagan Wagner, a literacy coach for a middle/high school in South Carolina, shares how Covid-19 has impacted the way she collaborates with teachers to best meet the needs of students and teachers, in her role as literacy coach.

Data over Assumptions: Determining How Our Schools Engage in Family-School Partnerships

Dr. Jennifer D. Morrison, instructor at the University of South Carolina, shares how schools can evaluate their school-family partnerships and how educators can move toward building stronger school-family partnerships.

Strengthening the Generations Through Agricultural Literacy

Alonzo McDonald, a South Carolina High School Agriculture Teacher, discusses how he uses community partnerships to increase student content area literacy in his classroom, and beyond.

Learning about our families through the Family Heritage Project

Dr. Julia López-Robertson, a professor at the University of South Carolina, and Rocio Herron, a South Carolina teacher, share their experience in developing and implementing a family heritage project at a South Carolina School.

What in the World Have you Been Doing?

Jeni Nix, a South Carolina Librarian, and Rene Harris, a South Carolina Elementary Principal, discuss how they have centered the library in their school to promote literacy.

For the love of literacy

Charlene Aldrich, retired literacy instructor, shares the partnership teachers and librarians can cultivate within their school buildings to support literacy instruction.