Today’s educators face incredible challenges. The implementation of the South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards (SC-CCRS) for English Language Arts requires school districts to accelerate student achievement. Teachers and administrators must be supported as they navigate between current literacy practices and the ideals of the SC-CCRS. Through coaching, professional development, and collaborative solution design, our experienced consultants will partner with you to achieve excellence for your district and school.


Testimonials/ What Our Clients Say

  • The ideas suggested for guided reading were very informative. I like the way the presenter emphasized that there is no one-way to implement. The important thing is that as educators we know each student and plan accordingly. I look forward to implementing a stronger implementation of guided reading in my classroom this year.
    Teacher, Sumter County School District
  • I have truly enjoyed today. I am hooked on guided reading! There are so many things that I’m going to try.
    Teacher, Sumter County School District
  • This has been an awesome learning experience! It was a much-needed session. I thoroughly enjoyed finally learning more about guided reading.
    Teacher, Sumter County School District
  • Through the workshop today I gained an understanding of how to effectively engage students and differentiate for students’ needs and levels.
    Teacher, Orangeburg School District Three
  • This workshop was very informative to me I learned numerous ideas and strategies that will be implemented in my classroom. As a first year teacher, I learned the importance of writing even at the K level. I will do my best to get my students writing!
    Teacher, Orangeburg School District Three
  • I feel I will be able to do a better job keeping conference notes and having one focus for student conferences.
    Teacher, Lexington One School District
  • I enjoyed seeing conferences in action through the videos. Collaborating and getting to hear from other teachers was also beneficial.
    Teacher, Lexington One School District
  • This session was very interesting! I learned so much about how to help my students develop as writers! I will be incorporating changes in my writing workshop!
    Teacher, North Charleston Elementary
  • I have a lot of new ideas for walking children through the writing process. I learned a lot about mentor texts and found it really helpful. I also got some good ideas for teaching vocabulary. I will definitely be using this with science.
    Teacher, Kershaw County
  • I will be able to take several ideas back to my classroom and use with my students. I feel this will allow me to help many of my students who struggle to write.
    Teacher, Kershaw County
  • As a math teacher, understanding the (ELA) inquiry and disciplinary literacy standards will help me prepare for the upcoming school year and how I can integrate my content.
    Teacher, Williamsburg County
  • Today’s learning influenced my thinking about the implementation of close reading. This indeed has been most powerful and beneficial for me. I will use close reading as a means to help students become more effective readers.
    Teacher, Williamsburg County
  • The explanation of CCSS was very in depth. I did not have a strong grasp on the CCSS before, but now I feel capable of using them in my instruction.
    Teacher, Lee County School District
  • Fantastic session! The format of the training gave us an opportunity to collaborate and hear ideas from others, which enhanced my learning. I am better prepared to articulate expectations to teachers and assist them as they implement CCSS.
    Administrator, Lee County School District
  • Wow! This was an awesome professional development training/experience. We really got down to the “nuts and bolts” of what instructional leaders must look for in the classroom in terms of CCSS.
    Administrator, Lee County School District
  • Awesome, awesome, awesome!! Thanks for helping me put all the “pieces together.” It was a great learning experience for me.
    Teacher, Lexington School District Three
  • I have learned more in the past two days than I ever anticipated. I am very excited about planning units with my team. I finally feel like I have grasp on what is going on.
    Teacher, Lexington School District Three
  • Wow, this was a great session. This is the first session I’ve had a chance to “dig deep” into the standards and understand key vocabulary needed to write/plan quality units of instruction. I am looking forward to tomorrow!
    Teacher, Lexington School District Three
  • My take away from today is to look at the process of planning my teachers are using, the decisions about what standards to teach, resources selected to teach that standard, and the activities to engage the students. Today was very helpful for me to go through the process of reading for meaning and to see how the various standards were addressed. This will help me redirect my meetings and to focus planning and preparation.
    Principal, Charleston County School District
  • Today’s activities provided me a deeper understanding of where students can go with CCSS as well as how much more engaging learning can be by simply focusing on the types of text we present to students in the delivery of the standards.
    Principal, Charleston County School District