The College of Charleston’s Center for Partnerships to Improve Education is hosting a one-day Best Practices in School Improvement Institute for Charleston-area educators on Friday, March 26 at the Lowcountry Graduate Center. This annual institute will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
College of Charleston professors and K-12 educators will be presenting on such topics as teacher leadership, inquiry and advocacy, single gender instructional practices, motivating at-risk students, urban science lab report writing and thinking, and the impact of teacher-student relationships on student learning. Selected district and nonprofit administrators will be part of a panel that discusses school improvement approaches that work.
The keynote will be Richard Pringle, an administrator at Lancaster High School in Lancaster, SC. Mr. Lancaster is nationally known motivational speaker who will speak on generational poverty and education.
The Center for Partnerships is housed in the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance.
For more information, please contact Dr. Paula Egelson, Center for Partnerships director, at 843.953.7629 or egelsonp@cofc.edu.
