For immediate release, June 12, 2009

ROCK HILL — Jenna Hallman and Marcella Wine-Snyder have been named program directors with the nation’s oldest and most-established teacher recruitment and retention organization, it was announced today by the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, & Advancement (CERRA).

Hallman has spent the past year as a Teacher in Residence (TIR) with the recruitment center after being named the 2009 South Carolina Teacher of the Year. She will move the Center’s work forward with the South Carolina Teaching Fellows Program and its administration of South Carolina’s National Board loan and awareness programs.

A National Board Certified teacher herself, Hallman saw her passion for the South Carolina Teaching Fellows Program grow over the past year as she worked with college students across the state that are presently involved with the program. She, too, cherished her time speaking with and to high school seniors who aspire to become teachers through the program.

Prior to joining CERRA, she was a science specialist at Calhoun Academy for the Arts in Anderson School District Five.

Wine-Snyder, who also holds National Board Certification, will assume responsibility for CERRA’s pre-collegiate programs. In her new role with CERRA, she will lead the Teacher Cadet and ProTeam Programs. The two middle and high school teacher recruitment programs annually reach more than 2,500 students in 175-plus schools across the state. She will also coordinate the program’s growing national profile—Experiencing Education, the Teacher Cadet curriculum is used in at least 30 states across the country.

For the past two years Wine-Snyder has worked as a TIR with CERRA. In that role, she worked directly with 42 Teacher Cadet sites in the Midlands. Prior to coming to CERRA as a TIR she was a Teacher Cadet instructor and an English teacher at Richland One Middle College in Richland County School District One. As a senior at Burke High School in 1986-87, she was a Teacher Cadet in the program’s third year of existence.

Hallman is replacing Brett Vaughn, while Wine-Snyder is replacing Tria Grant. Both Vaughn and Grant have been with the organization for three years; the first year as TIRs and the final two as program directors. 

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About the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, & Advancement:
CERRA, an independent state agency located on the campus of Winthrop University, is the oldest and most established teacher recruitment program in the country. The purpose of CERRA is to provide leadership in identifying, attracting, placing and retaining well-qualified individuals for the teaching profession in South Carolina. CERRA is a national model and its programs have been adopted at school, district and state levels in more than 30 states in the United States.