Feb. 21-23, 2025 | Kingston Resorts, Myrtle Beach
Overview
The premiere professional development event of the year offers an impressive collection of educational presentations and experiences! Hundreds of school board members and other education leaders from across the state come together to:
- Learn from state and national experts on topics ranging from board governance to community engagement to innovations in classroom technology.
- Explore areas of particular interest in the diverse slate of breakout sessions.
- Connect with more than 70 education service and product vendors and gain a wealth of ideas and information.
- Enjoy performances by student musical groups from schools around the state.
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Please review new registration guidelines.
Register now.
Registration fee: $325Cancellation deadline: January 29
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Please review new registration guidelines.
Kingston Resorts
9800 Queensway Boulevard
Myrtle Beach, SC 29572Hotel rate: $159, Hotel deadline: Jan 29
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Pre-conference Board Chair Workshop, featuring speakers, discussions and activities focused on key leadership issues. Participants will gain a wealth of perspectives on their roles and responsibilities and develop skills to enhance governance of their districts.
- Keynote and General Sessions presentations by motivational speakers as wells as state and national experts on a wide variety of issues related to K-12 education.
- Breakout Sessions providing in-depth discussion on a diverse slate of topics.
- Trade Show.
- Student performance groups.
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- 2025 Annual Trade Show Exhibitor Prospectus
- 2025 Trade Show Diagram
- 2025 List of Exhibitors
- 2025 Exhibit Vendor Packet
Contact Ashleigh Hankwitz at ahankwitz@scsba.org for more information.
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Board Chair Workshop: 5 points and 5 hours
Annual Convention: 10 points and 10 hours of training
New Board Orientation: 5 points and 5 hours
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2025 ANNUAL CONVENTION HANDOUTS
- 2025 Annual Convention agenda-at-a-glance
- 2025 Board Chair Workshop Agenda
- 2025 New Board Orientation Agenda
2024 Annual Convention handouts
- 2024 Annual Convention program
- 2024 Annual Convention agenda-at-a-glance
- 2024 New Board Orientation agenda
- 2024 Board Chair Workshop agenda
- AC Keynote – Friday – Generational Board Strategies – Chuck Underwood
- AC Breakout – Friday – Use of School Facilities – Leanne Lordo, Tamara Osborne, and Rich Todd
- AC Breakout – Friday – Policies, Practices and Prison Pipelines, Does This Include Me? – Dr. Cynthia Cash-Greene, Dr. Beverly Holiday, and Rodney Zimmerman
- AC Breakout – Friday – Decreasing School Disruptions: Reducing Student Fights – Dr. Chan Anderson
- AC Breakout – Friday – Can we get voters to approve a financial referendum? – David Cox, Neil James, and Lisa Bourcier
- AC Keynote – Saturday – Education Alert: Gale Force Demographic Wind Gusts Ahead! – Dr. Jim Johnson
- AC Breakout – Saturday – School Bus Driver Certification, Becoming a Bus Driver – Richard Podmore
- AC Breakout – Saturday – School Bus Driver Certification, Bus Driver Licensing – Richard Podmore
- AC Breakout – Saturday – School Bus Driver Certification, SCDE Driver Certification – Richard Podmore
- AC Breakout – Saturday –Fiscal Watch, Caution, or Emergency? Challenging the Fiscal Practices Act– Alex Sherard
- Rasheeda Cleveland – Robert’s Rules for Beginners – the Art of Presiding
- Kathryn Mahoney and Vernie Williams – S.C. Freedom of Information Act – What you need to know
- Dylan Crossland and Michael Davidson – Lights, Camera, Action: The Do’s and Don’ts when Working with the Media
- AC Breakout – Engaging Interactively with the community and Media without Surrendering the Keys to the District – Charles Boykin and Tierney Goodwyn
2023 Annual Convention handouts
- 2023 Annual Convention agenda-at-a-glance
- 2023 Annual Convention brochure
- 2023 New Board Orientation agenda
- 2023 Board Chair Workshop agenda
- AC Breakout- Friday- Navigating Future General Fund Budgets– Mellanie Jinnette and Brad Willard
- AC Breakout-Friday- State Inspector General Investigations- What should we expect– Brian Lamkin, Leslie Wiser
- AC Breakout- Friday- CERRA’s Supply and Demand– Dr. Jennifer Garrett and Dr. Jenna Hallman
- AC Breakout-Friday- In it to win it! A community approach to a World class educational experience– Hembree
- AC Breakout- Friday-Policy in Practice-Rasheeda Cleveland
- AC Breakout- Saturday- Board and Superintendent Realtions– Policy and Control- David Duff and William Freeman
- AC Breakout-Saturday- ConnectED-A New Perspective on Teacher Recruitment and Retention– Latoya Dixon
- AC Breakout-Saturday- Lexington 2.5 An Interdpartmental Approach to After-Schol Academic Intervention-Brooks, Wise, Burggraaf
- AC Breakout Saturday-Financial Questions to ask your professionals– Campbell, Heizer, Dobson
2022 Annual Convention handouts
- 2022 Annual Convention program
- Board Chair Workshop agenda
- New Board Orientation agenda
- 2022 Annual Convention brochure
- 2022 Annual Convention flyer
- Feb 18, 2022 AC handout: Beyonce Put a Ring on it, WE put a CAP on it!– La’Toya Adams
- Feb 18, 2022 AC handout: Finance 101 and Beyond– Mellanie Jinnette
- Feb 18, 2022 AC handout: D50’s Process for Moving from a Traditional Calendar to a Year Round Calendar– Dr. Steve Glenn
- Feb 19, 2022 AC handout: 3rd Grade Safety and Survival Swimming– Michael Thorsland
- Feb 19, 2022 AC handout: Legislative Update – Debbie Elmore
- Feb 19 2022 AC handout: Superintendent Search Service – LeGrand, Moore and Price
2021 Annual Convention handouts
- 2021 Annual Convention program
- 2021 Annual Convention agenda-at-a-glance
- 2021 Annual Convention brochure
- 2021 Annual Convention Safety Precautions
- AC Keynote – Craig Lemasters: Handout Exercise
- AC Breakout – Boykin & Davis, LLC: Educational Equity in the Decision-Making Process
- AC Breakout – Boykin & Davis, LLC: Culturally Competent and Racially Conscious Professional Development for School Leaders
- AC Breakout – Boykin & Davis, LLC: Equity and Quality in Education
- AC Breakout – Anderson One: Bringing all Students back for face-to-face Instruction in a COVID Environment
- AC Breakout – Horry County Schools: Building Equity for English Learners: What’s in your District’s Toolbox?
- AC Breakout – Florence 3: Engaging your Board & Stakeholders in the District’s Strategic Planning Process for Continuous Improvement Annually & during the Pandemic
- AC Breakout – Jerome Singleton: South Carolina High School League update
- AC Breakout – Tiffany Richardson: What’s new and what’s next: Updating policies in compliance with statutory and regulatory mandates
- Board Chair Workshop – Tiffany Richardson: Lets “meet” in the room
- Board Chair Workshop -Beth Branham & Dr. Nicolas Wade: Your Board and You – A Tale of Responsibility and Relationship
- Board Chair Workshop -Tony Arasi: The Core Work of Highly-Effective School Boards
- Board Chair Workshop -Tony Arasi: Top 10 tips for Effective Strategic Planning Blog
- Board Chair Workshop -Tony Arasi: Rate your practices as a member of the Governance Team
- Board Chair Workshop -Tony Arasi: Superintendent Evaluation Process
- Board Chair Workshop -Tony Arasi: Leadership Chart
- Board Chair Workshop -Tony Arasi: Policy BH – Code of Ethics
2020 Annual Convention handouts
- 2020 Annual Convention program
- 2020 Annual Convention flyer
- 2020 Annual Convention agenda at-a-glance
- 2020 Annual Convention brochure
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Board Chair Workshop – Tara McCall & Dr. Tiffany Richardson: Ethics
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Board Chair Workshop – Timi Tullis: Meaningful meetings
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Board Chair Workshop – Timi Tullis: Working Style Worksheet
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New Board Orientation – ElizaBeth Branham: Roles & Responsibilities
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New Board Orientation – David Duff: FOIA
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New Board Orientation – Lyde Graham: School finance 101
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New Board Orientation – Tara McCall: Ethics
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New Board Orientation – Dr. Tiffany Richardson: Meeting management 101
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New Board Orientation – Dr. Tiffany Richardson: Robert’s Rules Cheat Sheet
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AC Trending Topic – Understanding school district finance
- AC Trending Topic – Tiffany Richardson & Tara McCall: What’s New and What’s Next
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AC Trending Topic – Timi Tullis: Working Styles Worksheet
- AC Breakout – Jackie Bryant – Work-Based learning
- AC Breakout – Hayley Cagle and Matt Wilson: A Vision For Student Achievement Through A Data-Driven Partnership: Lessons Learned From Florence 1 Schools And LinkIt!
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AC Breakout – Anthony Cox: Biophilic Design
- AC Breakout – Gary Culler – Student Mental Health First Aid
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AC Breakout – Jim Denning: Data Breach
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AC Breakout – Jonathan Eggert & Melissa Azallion: Success in the classroom
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AC Breakout – Eddie Ingram: Mission, Vision and Work & Lifeskills Flyer
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AC Breakout – Eddie Ingram: Shared Values
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AC Breakout – David Lyon: What to expect?
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AC Breakout – Dr. Marcella Shaw: One school district
- AC Breakout – Jeff McCoy & Dr. Burke Royster – Creating district systems that get results
- AC Breakout – Helena Miller – Getting the community on your side
2019 Annual Convention handouts
- 2019 Annual Convention program
- 2019 Annual Convention agenda-at-a-glance
- 2019 Annual Convention brochure
- 2019 Board Chair Workshop agenda
- 2019 New Board Orientation agenda
- Board Chair Workshop – Paulette Cunningham: EQ success strategies
- Board Chair Workshop – Paulette Cunningham: Amplify the Intelligence (EQ) of your Board
- Board Chair Workshop – Dr. Tiffany Richardson: Meeting management
- New Board Orientation – Charles Boykin: Ethics
- New Board Orientation – Andrea White: Freedom of information
- New Board Orientation – David Loadholt: School finance 101
- AC Trending Topic – Rick Kaufman: A high-performance mindset
- AC Trending Topic – Dr. Harry Miley: Understanding school district finance
- AC Breakout – Alan Walters: Metal detectors
- AC Breakout – Andrea White: Guns and grenades
- AC Breakout – Barry Townsend: The education branding
- AC Breakout – Fort Mill Schools: School district impact fee
- AC Breakout – Ken Childs – Superintendent contracts
- AC Breakout – Laurens 55: Ladies and gentlemen’s clubs
- AC Breakout – Proactive Partnerships: Resource list
- AC Breakout – Rev. Cynthia Brown & Rep. Annie McDaniel: The takeover
- AC Breakout – Rep. Annie McDaniel: The takeover
- AC Breakout – Scott Price & Judy LeGrand: Superintendent search
- AC Breakout – Tom Cranmer: Data security
- AC Breakout – Paulette Cunningham: Amplify the Intelligence (EQ) of your Board
- AC Breakout – Dr. Sean Alford and Merry Glenne Piccolino: Ethically educate your community
- AC Breakout – Tierney Dukes and Christopher Elliott: Bullying and Harassment
- AC Breakout – Andy Coleman and Barbara Nesbitt: Network infrastructure
2018 Annual Convention handouts
- 2018 Annual Convention program
- 2018 Annual Convention brochure
- 2018 Board Chair Workshop agenda
- 2018 New Board Orientation agenda
- Dr. James Ray: District Consolidation
- Cathy Hazelwood: Campaign Reform Act of 1991
- Tom DeLapp: Making dollars make sense
- Erica Ayers, Beth Barry, Juanita Bowens, Carolyn Battaglia Lindstrom: Wellness Policy
- Annette Melton: AdvancED board governance
- Rob Burggraaf: Protecting students in a digital world
- Paige Day, Martha Messick: Remove barriers to increase AP enrollment
- Becky Bean, Mary Anne Byrd, Libby Roof: The PR Doctors Are In the House
- Debbie Elmore: Legislative Update (handout)
- Debbie Elmore: Legislative Update (PowerPoint)
- Charles Weathers: Connected conversations
- Kanisha Williams: Understanding the key work of school boards
- SCSBA: “Get on board!” (school board member roles and responsibilities)
- Patte Barth: School choice: Myths and realities
- Dr. Patricia Dillard, Dr. Crystal Ball O’Connor, Lisa Wells: Improving student outcomes with policy
- Erica Ayers, Beth Barry, Juanita Bowens, Carolyn Battaglia Lindstrom: Wellness Policy, Part 1
- Board Chair – Charles Weathers: ABLE Leader
- Board Chair – Greenville County Board: Transportation Workgroup
- New Board – Scott Price: Understanding roles and responsibilities
- New Board – Jasmine Rogers Dain, Vernie Williams: FOIA, what board members need to know
- New Board – David Loadholt: School finance 101
2017 Annual Convention handouts
- 2017 Annual Convention program
- 2017 Annual Convention brochure
- 2017 Board Chair Workshop agenda
- 2017 New Board Orientation agenda
- Dr. John Draper: Seven habits of collaborative school teachers
- Donald Andrews: Governance
- Jane Turner: The teacher shortage in SC
- Lisa Evans: Early Childhood
- Angela Bain: To blog or not to blog
- Murray Banks: Leadership for change in our schools
- Tom Barlow: New FLSA regulations
- Bick Halligan: Property taxes-debased, defogged and constricted
- Stacey Kaufman: Mandated reporting
- Ashley Story: Making sound board decisions
- Jaime Hembree, Julie Ruff, Matthew Velasquez: Closing the achievement gap
- SCSBA: “Get on board!” (board member roles and responsibilities)
- Dr. Patricia Dillard, Dr. Crystal Ball O’Connor, Lisa Wells: Improving student outcomes with policy
- Patte Barth: School choice: Myths and realities
- Board Chair – Becky Bean: Role as a communicator
- New Board – David Loadholt: Budget planning
- New Board – David Loadholt: Financing education
2016 Annual Convention handouts
- 2016 Annual Convention brochure
- New Board Orientation agenda
- Board Chair Workshop agenda
- Marian Wright Edelman: Children in the states: South Carolina
- Jack Gallagher: Insight into autism a father’s perspective
- Bob Davis: Ask your school district finance director
- Dr. DeeDee Washington: From STEM to STEAM
- Kyle Newton, Tom Wilson, Rick Bradshaw: It makes good cents – Winning a sales tax referendum
- Alan Walters: Disaster! How districts can prepare
- Dr. Mason Gary: No margin for error-saving our schools from borderline teachers
- Jane Turner: Teacher supply and demand issues
- Angie Rye, Pat Padgett, Dr. Lisa Allison: Think tank-Innovative, data-rich professional development model
- Dr. Randy Bridges: Transforming school boards…is there a need?
- Dr. Gary Burgess, Elder Alexis Pipkins, Annie McDaniel: Together-Setting the stage to improve academic achievement of historically underperforming student groups
- Ken Kiser: Creating a college, career and citizenship ready culture
- Debbie Elmore: SCSBA Legislative Update
- James Adams: Restorative Justice
- James Adams: Alternative Discipline
- Board Chair Workshop, Terry McCabe: Improving student achievement
- Board Chair Workshop, Katrina Spigner: Conflict-A catalyst for positive change
- Board Chair Workshop, Dr. J.R. Green: Effective leadership
2015 Annual Convention handouts (archive)
- 2015 convention program
- 2015 convention brochure
- Ed Massey: Improving student achievement
- Angela Maiers: How big is your brave?
- Angela Maiers: Disruptive collaboration
- Charles J. Boykin: School boards roles
- Charlotte McDavid: Designing a learning model
- David Duff and Andrea White: May school boards function as “morality police”?
- Dr. Rainey Knight: Reading success for all children
- Erica Bissell: Read to Succeed, summer reading camp success
- Jasmine Rogers Drain: A board member’s guide
- Trip DuBard: Connecting to private financial support
- Dr. Paul Krohne, Dr. Tiffany Richardson: Nothing could possible go wrong
- Dr. Darrell Johnson: Superintendent-board chair relationship
- Cathy Hazelwood: Ethics for elected officials
- Andrea White, Lindsay Thompson: What to do when it’s not just a bug
- Miranda Beard: “I’m Special” poem
2014 Annual Convention handouts (archive)
- 2014 convention program
- Kevin Baird: Preserving Local Community Control and the Common Core State Standards
- Kevin Baird: CCR Planning Guide
- Paul Krohne: Board Member Roles and Responsibilities
- James Johnson: Disruptive Demographics
Get on board!
Download SCSBA’s new guide to school board member roles and responsibilities here.
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Clint SwindallPresident and CEO of Verbalocity, Inc
As a professional speaker, Clint is the recipient of the Certified Speaking Professional designation, the speaking profession’s international measure of professional platform competence. Just over 10 percent of speakers worldwide who are a part of the Global Speakers Federation hold this designation. For more than two decades, Clint has traveled the world delivering high-content speeches and training in an entertaining and inspirational style to Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and trade associations. His clients include 7-Eleven, American Express, BMW, Valero Energy, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Jack in the Box and Keller Williams. In addition to his work as a speaker, trainer and consultant, Clint is the author of three books on leadership. He has delivered his programs throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Central America, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Bermuda and The Bahamas. Clint does more than just talk about leadership. His leadership roles in the community include serving as chairman of the Board of GVTC Communications, a leading provider of communication services. He is founder and chairman of the Board of the First Chance Foundation, a 501(c)3 dedicated to assisting abandoned, abused and neglected children, and is director Emeritus of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo.
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tami pyferChief of Staff & Vice President of External Affairs, UNITE
Tami Pyfer is the Chief of Staff and Vice President of External for UNITE – a national organization seeking to ease division across political and cultural divides. Tami is also the co-creator of the Dignity Index, an eight-point scale for measuring the dignity or contempt in the language we use with each other when we disagree. Before her work with UNITE, Tami served for seven years as the Education Policy Advisor to former Utah Governor Gary Herbert, where she was involved in state level policy development, coalition building and stakeholder engagement. She held local and state elected offices for 12 years – eight years on the Logan City Council and four years on the Utah State Board of Education. Tami’s professional training is in special education and before her appointment to serve on the Governor’s executive team she taught at Utah State University, preparing teachers to work with students with disabilities.
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Dr. Adolph Brown, IIIMaster Teacher, The World’s Greatest Edutainer™
Dr. Adolph Brown, III, affectionately known as “Doc Brown”, offers the most uniquely inspiring, relevant, hilarious and entertaining, yet profoundly challenging master classes and presentations around. As the world-renowned clinical psychologist and master teacher, Doc Brown is considered the best mental health speaker and top education expert most have ever experienced. He is also an American businessman, mental health and parenting expert, clinical psychologist, investor, author, master teacher, urban and rural school educator, research-scientist and keynote speaker. He is a servant-leader at heart, a life-long mental health and safe spaces advocate, a renowned parent/family television host and career teacher educator. He is admired around the world for his simple and direct “Real Talk,” and powerful, universal and timeless teachings. Doc Brown is one of the world’s most trusted mental health, parenting and relationship experts. Over the past three decades, he has helped innumerable families and couples with his master classes and books about rearing children and maintaining healthy adult relationships. Doc Brown has the track record to prove his techniques work. For more than 30 years as a well-respected research-practitioner and academician, Doc Brown has researched, field-tested, and implemented a set of concrete strategies used to support and enhance schools and businesses around the world. Doc Brown is best known for inspiring excellence and intellectually enlightening all who hear him to learn, laugh and lead. He is also the leading provider of psychological safety training in business and education. He is highly regarded as the “balcony” human leadership advisor and highly skilled peak performance coach who gets you from where you are to where you want to be while having the most fun ever.
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Jennifer Pharr DavisEntrepreneur, Speaker, Author
There is a lot that makes Jennifer Pharr Davis interesting. She’s a person who has hiked more than 14,000 miles on six different continents, and mostly by herself. She was the first (and so far, only) woman to set the overall record on the Appalachian Trail, completing it in 46 days – a miraculous average of 47 miles a day. She backpacked 700 miles in her second and third trimesters of pregnancy, walked across the state of North Carolina while nursing her son and hiked in all 50 states with her daughter before her little one turned two.
But the thing that stands out most about Jennifer is that if you talk to her, she seems pretty normal. She may have served on the President’s Council for Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, but she has run her own small business for 16 years, so she knows what it’s like to deal with dissatisfied clients, or be cursed at by upset employees, to work through risk management again and again and again, and constantly adapt her business to an ever-changing environment.
She may be a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, but her best and by far hardest adventure is being a mom to her two children Charley and Gus, and the wife to Brew, her life and work partner, as well as a professional musician. And if you know anything about showbiz, you know that pursuing music makes hiking look like a remarkably responsible life choice.
Jennifer cares deeply about conversation and can discuss public policy in depth. But she can also swap stats with you during college football or basketball season and rehash Reality TV over a glass of Cabernet. She is one-of-a-kind, and just like all of us. She’s comfortable going solo and being the first to try something big. She also knows how to guide a group and lead a team at a successful and sustainable pace. She is a trailblazer in every essence of the word, and we can’t wait to see what trail she blazes next.
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Dr. Frank RodriguezSuperintendent, Beaufort County School District
Recently named the South Carolina 2025 Superintendent of the Year, Dr. Frank Rodriguez has a history of building community trust and engagement. Upon arriving in Beaufort County School District (BCSD), he led the district in the passing of a $344 million bond referendum in 2019, the first in 11 years, and another in 2023, garnering a 72 percent rate, the largest in the district’s history, at $439 million. Additionally, Dr. Rodriguez has been recognized as a top 25 Superintendent to Watch by the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA) for his dynamic, fast-paced leadership with strong communication at its core. Prior to his tenure at BCSD, Dr. Rodriguez spent 26 years serving the South Florida education community in a variety of administrative capacities. Dr. Rodriguez earned his master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction and a doctorate in Educational Leadership from Florida Atlantic University. He resides in Beaufort County with his wife and sons, one who attends BCSD and the other who attends college.
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Braden WilsonSocial Studies Teacher, Palmetto Middle School, Anderson School District One
For Braden Wilson, history was always a passion; however, it wasn’t until her sixth-grade social studies class that she knew she wanted to become a teacher. Braden fell in love with the way her teacher would “teach her shoes off,” and make history come alive. This drive to teach was cemented by later school experiences filled with worksheets and open-note tests. As Braden saw her peers zone out in their desks, she knew she could make them love history as much as she did if she was their teacher.
Braden was a Teaching Fellow at Anderson University, where she was the Social Studies Teacher Candidate of the Year. She has a master’s degree in Teacher Leadership from Walden University, as well as a master’s degree in Administration and Supervision from Anderson University. She is now in her eleventh year of education, teaching eighth grade social studies at Palmetto Middle School in Anderson School District One. Braden believes teaching children history provides them an opportunity to explore what they love while making sense of the world around them. She discovers student interests and cultivates experiences that make history engaging and relatable for every kind of learner- hoping to inspire students to make their own unique mark on history.