Education
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Chastain Rd. Elem. named 2020 Model School
LIBERTY — The International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE), whose mission is to challenge, inspire and equip today’s educators, has named Chastain Road Elementary School a 2020 Model School for making rapid and significant improvements in student outcomes. Chastain Road Elementary recognized the need for change, collectively established a…
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Potential indicators for disease
CLEMSON — A critical question in medicine asks how individual variation in DNA can predict variation in health and disease. New research from the Clemson Center for Human Genetics identified hundreds of metabolites that might serve as intermediates to translate variation in the genome to variation in complex traits. Published…
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Clemson’s Call Me MISTER encourages childhood reading at barbershops
CLEMSON — DeAvin Rencher is a fixture at Upstate Barbers in Central. But he’s not a customer or barber. He’s a special education major at Clemson University and Call Me MISTER student who works with kids through the Razor Readers program. Clemson’s Call Me MISTER program is sending its students…
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Wren Middle School knows how to #rock
PIEDMONT — Do you know why #WrenMiddleRocks? When the seventh grade ELA teachers at Wren Middle School started to plan for the first week of school, they wanted a lesson that taught the students how to “rock” seventh grade. One of the main lifelong lessons the teachers wanted the students…
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SDPC announces make-up days
PICKENS COUNTY — Students in the School District of Pickens County will attend school on March 16 and March 30 to make up for days missed due to Hurricane Irma. Both days were built in to the school calendar to use in case of inclement weather. According to South Carolina…
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Daniel seniors are Merit Scholar semifinalists
CENTRAL — Three Daniel High School seniors — Ian Ruohoniemi, Benjamin Buck and Manav Jain — have been selected as National Merit semifinalists. This selection is based on the students’ scores on the PSAT test that is administered by the College Board and co-sponsored by the National Merit Scholarship Program.…
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Central, McKissick to become theme-based magnet schools
PICKENS COUNTY — Central Elementary School and McKissick Elementary School are set to become theme-based magnet schools in the 2018-2019 school year as part of the School District of Pickens County’s Breakthrough in School Choice Initiative. The SDPC board of trustees has given approval to administration to move forward with…
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Anderson School D-1 celebrates opening of school for 2017-2018
POWDERSVILLE — Anderson One teachers and administrators celebrated the first week back for teachers at the annual kick off meeting on Aug. 18. Teachers were welcomed back with the Powdersville High School pep band and cheerleaders. The opening was led by Chad Mustin, teacher at Powdersville Middle School; Dr. Chris…
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SDPC names Teacher, Support Employee of the Year for the 2017-2018
PICKENS COUNTY — The School District of Pickens County has announced the new Teacher and Support Employee of the Year for the 2017-2018 school year. Debra Harris, a teacher at West End Elementary School, is the new Teacher of the Year, and Barrett Rampey, a technology assistant at Liberty Elementary…
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Professorships support research to help newborns, patients with implants, Parkinson’s
CLEMSON — Patients at risk of infections from surgical devices, newborns experiencing opioid withdrawal and people with Parkinson’s disease stand to benefit from research stemming from Clemson University’s newest named professorships. The Dr. Wallace R. Roy Distinguished Professorships appointments will support translational research partnerships between Clemson faculty members and Greenville…
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P.E.O. STAR Scholarship awarded
PICKENS — Abigail Caldwell, daughter of Nick and Floride Caldwell, has received the prestigious P.E.O. STAR Scholarship for the 2017-2018 academic year. Ann Ackley and Monica Johnson, member representatives of Chapter AN of P.E.O. International, presented the scholarship at the Easley High Awards Ceremony on May 18, 2017. In the…
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Cassidy named new principal at Liberty Middle
LIBERTY — Liberty Middle School will welcome Lisa Cassidy as its new principal for the coming school year. Cassidy comes to Liberty from Anderson School District One, where she has served as the Director of Planning and Development since 2013. From 2009 to 2013 she was the Instructional Assistant Principal…
