The RC6 is building capacity within the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) Office of School Transformation (OST) to align support by improving lines of collaboration across program offices and improving key support systems (e.g., deployment of Transformation Coaches) to districts and schools. The RC6 is providing technical assistance to enhance the capacity of SCDE to use an integrated, comprehensive model of tiered systems of support across SCDE departments to schools.

This RC6 project, initiated in Year 1, supports the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) in improving district and school implementation of a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) process in order to improve student achievement, social-emotional development, and student behavior. When state law, ACT 213, went into effect, the majority of LEAs in the state requested a waiver from the requirement to use a universal reading screener in Grades K-3.

The RC6 will assist the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) in providing integrated, focused family engagement support to districts and low-performing schools that may not have strong family-engagement initiatives.

The purpose of this RC6 project is to develop a statewide Alternative Learning Programs and Schools (ALPS) Community of Practice (CoP) network in North Carolina. The aim is to encourage collaboration and problem solving towards using evidence-based strategies specific to the alternative setting.