State Resources

• Carolina Careers  
  Carolina Careers is not one program but a network of career education opportunities for students of all ages, from elementary school through college. In order to better prepare students to succeed in skilled careers, South Carolina has linked all of the State's existing career education programs, projects, activities, and organizations.
   
• Commission on Higher Education
  "The South Carolina Commission on Higher Education will promote quality and efficiency in the State system of higher education with the goal of fostering economic growth and human development in South Carolina."  
   
• DISCUS 
  DISCUS was derived from the concept: Digital Informationfor South Carolina USers. DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library provides all South Carolinians with equitable access to an electronic library of essential information and learning resources. DISCUS is administered by the South Carolina State Library in cooperation with South Carolina's school, college and public libraries. DISCUS is funded by the South Carolina General Assembly with supplemental funding by the federal Library Services and Technology Act.
   
• Division of Educator Quality and School Leadership 
  An innovative transformation has taken place within the Teacher Quality Division. The creation of a Web-based certification site has streamlined the process to provide each teacher with easy, convenient access to his or her personal certification file. This Web-based data bank is efficient, reliable, and secure. That's not all. Additional tabs offer essential information, updates, breaking news on higher education, ADEPT and Induction, Title II activities, and Teacher Recognition.
   
• Education Oversight Committee 
  The South Carolina Education Oversight Committee(EOC) is an independent, non-partisan group made up of 18 educators, businesspeople, and legislators who have been appointed by the legislature and governor to enact the South Carolina Education Accountability Act of 1998. The Act sets standards for improving the state's K-12 educational system. The EOC provides regular, routine and ongoing review of the state's education improvement process, assesses how our schools are doing and evaluates the standards our schools must meet to build the education system needed to competein the next century. The committee accomplishes its work through five subcommittees and the full committee. Each of the subcommittees addresses issues that support higher levels of student achievement.
     
• Know It All - ETV Features Site 
  This site contains ETV's Internet resources for teachers and students.
   
• Palmetto State Teachers Association 
  PSTA was organized in 1976 to give educators inSouth Carolina a choice. PSTA believes that every child in South Carolina has the right to a free, uninterrupted, quality education.
    
• SC Alliance of Black School Administrators           
  The mission of the South Carolina Alliance of Black School Administrators (SCSBSE) is to ensure a high quality education for all children, particularly for African-American children, by establishing coalitions, providing forums, facilitating the placement of African-American professionals and influencing public policy.
   
• SC Association of School Administrators 
  The mission of SCASA, a united alliance of diverse school leaders and the leading force in education in our state, is to guaranteea superior education for the citizens of South Carolina by stimulating and fostering public support, identifying and developing leaders, providing services for members, initiating and supporting legislation, and effectively building coalitions to achieve our mission.
     
• SC District Websites         
  This page allows you to select a printer friendly version of the statewide district information. You may select specific districts and the items you want in your personal copy of the SDE School Directory, or you can choose to download and print the full directory. Updated information for all districts is usually available by October.
   
• SC Education Association 
  The SCEA is a professional association for educators in South Carolina. Educators from pre-K to 12th grade comprise The SCEA. Classroom teachers, guidance counselors, librarians, principals, middle managers, superintendents as well as bus drivers, teaching assistants, clerks and secretaries are members of The SCEA.
   
• SC Public Schools (List) 
  A comprehensive of SC public schools by district.
   
• SC School Board Association 
  For information on South Carolina education legislation, send an email to sandyp@scsba.org and ask to receive the Daily Legislative Updates. Updates begin in January.
   
• SC State Department of Education 
  In addition to a number of informative links and up-to-date education news in our State, the site includes a comprehensive listing of the Divisions and Offices of the South Carolina Department of Education.
   
• SC State Homepage 
  Six of the ten strategic issues identified in the South Carolina strategic information resources plan of 1998 addressed improving citizens accessibility to government information, goods, and services: (1)Automated Access to Public Information; (2) Seamless Access to Government Services; (3) Using IT Resources Effectively and Efficiently; (4) Standards to Insure Interoperability; (5) Application of Current and Emerging Technologies; (6) Simple, Effective Means of Doing Business Using Technology. 
   
  With these in mind, South Carolina has developed the mySCGov.com portal. This includes vertical areas of interests -- News, Government, Education, Business, Health, Public Safety, Environment and Tourism. A portalis a "one-stop shop" filled with information and service choices. Each of the portals caters to the needs of its users -- citizens, employees or businesses. 
   
  The user is linked directly to the information source or service automatically, without needing to know which agency isinvolved. No longer will the user have to know and navigate a specific agency web site to find the information he wants. Also, a search engine has been incorporated to allow the user the ability to search for specific items. All pages containing information relative to the search will be displayed. However, links to all agencies home pages are available for direct access. 
     
  In addition, each portal can be personalized to reflect a user's preferences. Individual users can personalize their page according to their needs.
   
• SC State House
  This site provides broadcasting of the House and Senate floor sessions during the active Legislative calendar, lists all committee meetings, and archives the following: Legislation, budget, code of laws, code of regulations, House journals, and Senate journals.
   
• SC Student Loan Corporation         
  The South Carolina Student Loan Corporation serves the students, parents, and schools of South Carolina by providing comprehensive loan programs to assist in financing a college education.
   
• South Carolina Teaching Learning Connecting
  A service of the South Carolina Department of Education, SCTLC.com is designed specifically to provide curriculum, instruction, and assessment resources needed by South Carolina teachers to support standards-based instruction. 
   
  Nowhere else on the World Wide Web can South Carolina teachers find the most current South Carolina curriculum standards dynamically linked to an ever-growing collection of high quality lesson plans, curriculum and assessment items, as well as other Web-based classroom resources. This treasury of items can be explored and exploited using a powerful search tool.
   
  SCTLC is highly customizable; individual teachers can create a personal workspace on the site to meet their work requirements.

Other Resources

• Amazon www.amazon.com | One-stop online shopping for books, magazines, movies, electronics, and more.
   
• American Association for Employment in Education www.ub-careers.buffalo.edu/aaee | The American Association for Employment in Education, Inc. was founded in 1934 as the National Institutional Teacher PlacementAssociation. AAEE is a professional association comprised of colleges, universities, and school districts whose members are school personnel administrators and college and university career services officers. AAEE works to serve the staffing needs of education.
   
• American Federation of Teachers Research Home Page www.aft.org/research | The mission of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, is to improve the lives of our members and their families, to give voice to their legitimate professional, economic and social aspirations, to strengthen the institutions in which we work, to improve the quality of the services we provide, to bring together all members to assist and support one another and to promote democracy, human rights and freedom in our union, in our nation and throughout the world.
   
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development www.ascd.org | The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose members span the entire profession of educators - superintendents, supervisors, principals,teachers, professors of education, and school board members. ASCD offers broad, multiple perspectives - across all education professions - in reporting key policies and practices.
   
• ASCD SmartBrief www.smartbrief/com/ascd | ASCD SmartBrief is a FREE daily news briefing delivered directly to you through email. Each ASCD SmartBrief takes you straight to the most salient news and trends affecting education today. This FREE service will help you break through the information overload and provide quick, easy-to-read summaries of top news in areas important to you.
   
• Ask Jeeves www.askjeeves.com | Ask Jeeves provides consumers with a simple and fastway to find relevant answers to their question(s), almost ANY question!
   
• Center for Creative Leadership www.ccl.org | The mission of the Center for Creative Leadership is to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide.
   
• Center for Cognitive Coaching www.cognitivecoaching.com | The Center for Cognitive Coaching^SM (CCC)is a resource, clearinghouse, and contact point for those wishing to increase their personal expertise and/or organizational capacity in the area of Cognitive Coaching. Cognitive Coaching is a process which supports individuals and organizations in becoming self-directed and self-renewing.
   
• Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning www.cftl.org | The Center is a public, not-for-profit organization with roots in California's education reform movement. While we are interested in many different aspects of improving state and national education systems, our primary focus is strengthening California's teacher workforce.
   
• Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy | depts.washington.edu/ctpmail
  The Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy studies efforts to improve the quality of teachers, teaching, and learning, as it is enacted in various contexts and at multiple levels of the system. The goal of the Center's research is to identify ways that leaders, policymakers, teacher developers, and the reform community can support teachers' work and careers and, ultimately, the quality of young people's learning opportunities, in U.S. elementary and secondary schools.
   
• Education Trust www.edtrust.org | The Education Trust works for the high academic achievement of all students at all levels, kindergarten through college, and forever closing the achievement gaps that separate low-income students and students of color from other youth. Their basic tenet is this - All children will learn at high levels when they are taught to high levels.
   
• Education Week e-Clips  www.ecs.org | ECS e-Clips gives you the day's top education news, as well as a link to EDUCATION WEEK's extensive daily news roundup. To subscribe, please e-mail with "subscribe" in the subject line and send your name, title, organization, phone number and e-mail address toe-Clips@ecs.org. Your comments also can be sent to this address.
   
• Mentoring Leadership and Resource Network www.mentors.net | MLRN is a grass roots effort started by a few educators and supported, in part as a network of the ASCD. Over the past six years, MLRN has grown to become an international initiative. Six educators started MLRN with an interest in new teacher mentoring. The intent was to help educators everywhere to access the best practices in mentoring and induction and to create a "mentoring initiative" across the USA.
   
• Milken Family Foundation www.mff.org | The purpose of the Milken Family Foundation is to discover and advance inventive and effective ways of helping people help themselves and those around them lead productive and satisfying lives.
   
• MicroSoft Template Gallery search.officeupdate.microsoft.com/TemplateGallery | Need help organizing your life? Templates can help you keep track of big projects and small details. Don't worry about creating it yourself if you don't have the time.
   
• Mirriam-Webster Online   www.webster.com | Free Electronic version of Mirriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus.
   
• National Alliance of Black School Educators www.nabse.org | NABSE, a 5,000 plus member, nonprofit organization founded in 1970 by Dr. Charles D. Moody, Sr. and other prominent educators, is the nation's largest network of African American educators. NABSE is dedicated to improving the educational accomplishments of African American youth through the development and deployment of instructional and motivational methods that increase levels of inspiration, attendance and overall achievement.
   
• National Association for Alternative Certification www.alt-teachercert.org/index.asp | The National Association for Alternative Certification (NAAC) seeks to expand the options available to individuals to achieve certification for teaching or administration at the elementary or secondary level. The goal of NAAC is to help improve these preparation programs by facilitating the entry into the education profession of persons who did not choose to prepare for teaching as their initial occupations, as well as, those individuals who have entered teacher preparation programs as part of the irinitial career training.
   
• National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification www.nasdtec.org | The National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification is dedicated to licensing well-prepared, safe and wholesome educators for our nation's schools. NASDTEC represents professional standards boards, commissions and state departments of education in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Dependent Schools, the U.S. Territories, New Zealand, and British Columbia, which are responsible for the preparation, licensure and discipline of educational personnel. Associate members include Canadian provinces and representatives of other constituent groups with an interest in the preparation and certification of educational personnel.
   
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards www.nbpts.org | The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is leading the way in making teaching a profession dedicated to student learning and to upholding high standards for professional performance. We have raised the standards for teachers, strengthened their educational preparation through the standards, and created performance-based assessments that demonstrate accomplished application of the standards.
   
• National Center for Educational Statistics www.nces.ed.gov | NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that related to education in the United States and other nations.
   
• National Commission on Teaching and America's Future www.tc.edu/nctaf | The National Commissionon Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonpartisan and nonprofit groupd edicated to improving the quality of teaching nationwide as a means of meeting America's educational challenges.
   
• No Child Left Behind Legislation www.nclb.gov | The federal website for information on the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). This new law represents President Bush's education reform plan and contains the most sweeping changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) since it was enacted in 1965.
   
• New Teacher Center at UC-Santa Cruz www.newteachercenter.org | The New Teacher Center (NTC) at UCSC is a national resource dedicated to teacher development and new teacher training, and the support of programs and practices that promote excellence and diversity in America's teaching force.
   
• Praxis www.ets.org/praxis | The Praxis Series:Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers is a set of rigorous and carefully validated assessments that provides accurate, reliable information for use by state education agencies in making licensing decisions
   
• Recruiting New Teachers, Inc.  www.rnt.org | Established in 1986, Recruiting New Teachers, Inc. works to raise esteem for teaching, expand the pool of qualified teachers, and promote strategies for effective teacher recruitment, development, and retention.                                                                                                               
• Southern Regional Educational Board www.sreb.org | The Southern Regional Education Board is proud to be the nation's first interstate compact for education, founded in 1948. With 16 member states, SREB works to achieve 12 Challenge to Lead Goals for Education in the region.

• Teachers-Teachers.com www.teachers.teachers.com | Teachers-Teachers.com is designed to save teachers time and money in the search for great teaching jobs.  With Teachers-Teachers.com, schools with open teaching positions come to you.  By posting your resume online, you instantly make yourself available to thousands of schools nationwide.

• Test Prep Review www.testprepreview.com | Offers free practice test of all major standardized test, Including SAT, ACT and ISEE.
   
• Center for Teaching Quality www.teachingquality.org | Through conducting research, informing policy, and engaging leadership, The Center for Teaching Quality enhances opportunities for all students in the region to have competent, caring, and qualified teachers.
   
• US Department of Education www.ed.gov | This site is designed to help pursue the President's initiatives, including No Child Left Behind, and advance the mission as a Department - to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans. It also supports the work of ED offices, led by senior ED officials.
   
• Virus and Hoax Warning Site www.f-secure.com/virus-info/hoax | This page is considered the industry standard information source for new virus hoaxes and false alerts.
   
• WestEd www.wested.org | WestEd is a nonprofit research, development, and service agency. WestEd is committed to improving learning at all stages of life - from infancy to adulthood, both in school and out. The work is far-reaching because of its ambitious purpose: success for every learner. Ambitious as it is, this goal is within reach.