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A
B
To
another
edition
of
CCSD
today,
I'm
your
host
Erica
Taylor
and,
during
this
show
we're
going
to
learn
all
about
the
Charleston
promise.
Neighborhood
joining
me
now
is
mrs.
Leticia
van
Brandon,
who
is
the
assistant,
associate
superintendent
for
charleston,
county
school
district
and
director
of
educational
initiatives
for
cpn
large
title,
but
she
has
such
a
great
task.
Thank
you
for
joining
us.
Thank
you
for
having
me.
So,
let's
talk
about
cpn
and
the
impact
that
it
has
on
schools
here
in
Charleston.
Well,.
H
The
partnership
between
Charleston
promise
neighborhood
and
the
Charleston
County
School
District
is
a
unique
partnership
that
is
allowed
charleston
county
school
district
to
be
able
to
serve
children
and
students
and
families
in
a
way
that
probably
would
not
have
been
able
to
happen
without
the
partnership
with
Charleston
Promise
Neighborhood.
The
organization
Charleston
promise
neighborhood
is
modeled
after
the
Harlem
Children's
Zone.
H
There
has
been
a
lot
of
work
in
the
schools
around
school-based
health,
so
we
have
a
health
partnership
with
the
medical
unit
versity,
which
provides
a
doctor
on-site
at
the
schools
once
a
week,
which
is
awesome
because
if
our
children
are
sick
or
they
have
something
going
on,
there's
a
doctor
right
there
that
they
can
go
see
with
parental
consent.
There
is
a
nurse
practitioner
that
works
with
our
school-based
nurses,
because
there
is
a
limitation
to
what
the
school
school
district
nurses
are
able
to
do,
and
so
with
the
partnership
they
are
able
to
prescribe.
H
So
if
a
child
needs
medication,
they're
able
to
prescribe
they're
able
to
do
some
of
the
things
that
our
school-based
nurses
just
are
not
able
to
do,
which
is
again
a
great
opportunity,
because
we've
been
able
to
detect
and
solve
a
lot
of
issues
it
allows
our
parents
do
not
have
to
leave
work
because,
as
a
parent,
I
also
recognize
that
taking
a
child,
a
sick
child
to
the
doctor
means
that
I
have
to
take
off
work.
For
you
know
almost
three
to
four
hours
by
the
time.
H
B
Then
I
think
that's
important
too,
to
hear
and
for
our
our
viewers
to
know,
because
I
mean
that's
a
value
that
that
we
couldn't
put
a
dollar
price
tag
too.
I
know
that
there
are
four
schools,
and
so
let's
talk
about
the
location,
because
I
think
that's
also
something
unique:
the
the
fact
that
they're
all
a
part
of
the
community
that
we
call
the
neck
talk
about
that
a
little
bit
so.
H
It's
a
5.6
miles
square
mile
radius
of
Charleston
called
the
neck.
Like
you
said,
tues
two
of
the
schools
are
in
North
Charleston
and
two
are
in
downtown,
and
that
was
the
agreement
between
the
delegates
that
went
to
visit
the
Harlem
Children's
Zone,
and
so
because
there
is
that
agreement
between
the
city
of
north
charleston
in
the
city
of
Charleston.
That
also
allowed
unprecedented
co-funding,
and
so
because
there
was
community's
support
for
the
project.
There
was
also
an
agreement
to
provide
multiple
year
funding
to
the
organization
to
be
able
to
start
the
work
and.
B
H
This
year,
with
the
support
of
Charleston
Promise
Neighborhood,
the
nonprofit
organization
were
able
to
pilot
an
expanded
learning
time
project
at
Sanders,
Clyde,
okay
and
it
Mary
Ford,
and
so
just
to
give
you
a
little
bit
of
background
on
what
that
is.
At
Sanders
Clyde,
the
majority
of
the
students
stay
at
school
for
an
additional
two
hours
every
single
day,
so
in
almost
three.
H
The
achievement
gap
with
our
children,
and
so,
if
you
know
the
research
on
children
of
poverty,
there
is
an
achievement
gap
in
how
they
perform
on
standardized
assessments,
and
the
achievement
gap
is
not
because
our
children
don't
have
the
ability
to
do
what
everyone
else
is
doing.
It's
because
they
haven't
had
the
opportunity
or
they
might
need
additional
academic
support.
Thank.
B
J
K
L
G
C
F
M
The
law
firm
of
young
defendant
rivers
has
been
serving
the
Charleston
low
country
since
nineteen
sixty
eight
all
of
the
lawyers
of
young
timid
rivers
are
proud
to
be
partners
with
the
Charleston
County
School
District.
We
were
convinced
that
the
hard
work
of
the
school
district
employees
and
staff
prepares
our
young
people
to
face
the
challenges
of
the
future.
We
look
forward
to
continuing
our
partnership
and
in
helping
the
school
district
to
meet
its
standard
of
excellence.
Welcome.
B
Back
to
more
CCSD
today,
I'm
your
host,
Erica,
Taylor
and
now
joining
me
is
mrs.
Shearer
stephs
Williams,
who
is
the
CEO
of
the
Charleston
promise
neighborhood
thanks
for
joining
us.
Thank
you
for
having
me.
Let's
talk,
Charleston
promise,
neighborhood
I
want
to
know,
and
I
spoke
a
little
bit
to
leticia
about
how
was
founded
in
the
purpose.
But
in
your
opinion,
tell
us
why
this
is
such
a
great
organization.
Charlton.
N
Promise
neighborhood
is
great
for
a
couple
reasons.
One
is
it's
a
unique
collaboration
with
key
stakeholders
in
the
community,
the
school
district,
the
city
of
Charleston,
the
City
of
North
Charleston,
as
well
as
Charleston
County,
came
together
with
both
finances
and
leadership
to
launch
and
support.
N
N
Are
our
key
focus
areas
we
have
six?
They
are
housing,
employment,
education,
health
care,
community
engagement
and
parent
engagement.
Those
are
all
very
broad,
very
important
issues
in
the
community,
but
in
our
first
five
years
we
are
focused
on
education
or
supporting
our
four
elementary
schools.
Health
care
is
vitally
important
to
a
child's
success,
so
we
launched
school-based
health
clinics.
N
We
can't
do
any
of
this
work
without
the
intentional
engagement
of
community
members
as
well
as
parents,
and
so
those
are
our
four
areas
that
we
are
going
deep
in
and
then
in
the
long
term
we
will
support
and
collaborate
with
key
partners
in
the
community
to
address
housing
and
employment.
Okay
and
so.
N
The
four
schools
that
we're
working
with
two
on
the
peninsula,
Sanders
Clyde
and
James,
Simmons
Elementary's
and
in
the
north
area,
Shakur
elementary
and
Mary
Ford
elementary
and
a
couple
of
things
that
we
know
is
that
strong
schools
have
to
be
led
by
a
strong
leaders
and
strong
teachers
that
are
committed,
of
course,
but
also
have
all
the
resources
they
need
to
be
successful.
So
our
early
work
is
focused
on
principal
leadership
and
teacher
professional
development
figuring
out.
N
How
do
we
continue
to
provide
supports
and
resources
to
the
amazing
teachers
that
are
already
in
the
schools,
but
who
may
not
have
all
of
the
resources
that
can
help
them?
Accelerate
academic
performance
and
high
poverty
schools?
So
we're
focused
on
that.
We're
also
focused
on
the
needs
of
our
students
student
supports,
so
we
partner
with
nonprofits
to
help
students
accelerate
their
reading
abilities.
N
We
partner
with
nonprofits
in
the
community
that
focus
on
the
mental
and
social
supports
that
students
need
we
partner
with
nonprofits
and
other
entities
to
offer
field
experience
that
are
tied
to
curriculum,
because
we
want
to
ensure
that
our
students
have
a
well-rounded
experience
to
support
what
they're
learning
in
the
classroom.
We
partner
again
with
the
medical
university
to
ensure
that
all
of
our
students
are
healthy
and
ready
to
learn,
but
also
it's
a
benefit
to
parents
who
don't
have
to
take
off
work
for
minor
illnesses.
N
It
saves
on
emergency
room
costs
and
we
also
provide
tools
and
resources
to
help.
Parents
better
understand
how
to
advocate
for
their
children.
And
we
do
that
through
a
couple
of
things
through
our
school-based
health
clinics,
with
through
trainings
that
we
offer,
through
our
community
engagement
Council
through
a
program
that
we're
launching
the
parent-teacher
home
visitor
program
which
trains
teachers
and
how
to
build
relationships
and
Trust
with
parents.
And
so
those
are
the
key
things
that
we're
doing
in
our
schools.
Well
great.
N
So
I
think
I'm.
A
key
part
of
our
work
is
a
fueled
by
volunteers.
You
know
we
have
a
very
robust
board
of
directors
that
helps
us
think
strategically
about
our
work
and
our
impact
to
to
be
a
part
of
school
change
is
a
long,
expensive
project,
and
so
we
have
lots
of
donors
like
The,
Boeing
Company,
who
stood
by
us
for
the
last
three
years
and
have
invested
in
our
teachers
through
that
over
that
timeframe,
partners
like
the
Medical,
University
and
TD
Bank
and
others
collectively
they
have
come
together
to
support
our
work.
N
I
think
it's
you
know,
I
can't
stress
enough
how
important
our
governmental
partners
are,
and
the
school
district
are
to
the
work
that
we're
doing
to
have
the
four
of
those
entities
come
together
and
make
a
multi-year
commitment
to
support
our
work
is
a
pre,
phenomenal
and
I.
Think
the
last
thing,
I
would
say,
is
about
a
partnership
with
the
school
district.
You
know
we
are
truly
a
partner
in
this
effort.
The
creation
of
the
Charleston
Promise
Neighborhood
learning
community
was
something
that
was
conceptualized
by
us,
but
wholly
endorsed
by
the
school
district.
N
B
C
D
Just
made
it
easy,
it
is
I,
have
you
know
it's
made
it
easy
and
the
kids
like
it.
There
are.
B
P
Sure
I'm
the
new
board
chair,
you
know
the
Promise
Neighborhoods
been
around
for
four
or
five
years
now.
I
was
involved
in
the
early
launch
of
the
promise
neighborhood,
but
now
I'm
I'm
bought
on
the
board,
chair
and
I've,
been
to
exactly
one
board
meeting
as
a
new
board
chair.
It's
fair
for
me
to
focus
on
what's
working
well,
what's
not
working
well!
P
So
the
first
things
that
I'm
going
to
focus
on
in
my
leadership
role
are
trying
to
assess
what
how
things
are
going
right
and
what's
really
working
and
how
to
do
more
of
that
and
what's
not
working
so
well,
and
how
to
redirect
resources
to
to
better
better
apply
them.
So
so.
The
second
thing
that
I'm
going
to
be
engaged
in
is
is
really
looking
at
the
talent.
That's
on
the
board,
making
certain
that
we've
got
the
skills
and
the
experience
that
we
need
and
try
to
ensure
that
the
board
itself
is
lined
up
with.
P
Where
we're
going.
I've
asked
dr.,
McKinley
and
she's
agreed
to
stay
on
the
board.
She
was
on
the
board
in
her
capacity
as
superintendent,
but
now
she's
going
to
be
on
the
board
at
large.
Dr.
herring
is
going
to
take
the
seat
for
CCSD
and
with
the
two
of
them
there
it'll
it'll
double
the
richness
of
real
educational
experience
on
the
board.
P
I'm
also
interested
in
getting
broader
representation
from
the
neighborhood
itself,
because
the
Promise
Neighborhood
started
as
kind
of
a
top-down
initiative
and
getting
it
rooted
in
the
neighborhood
is
really
important
if
we're
going
to
make
long-term
sustainable
changes.
So
so
that's
the
second
priority
that
I
have
is
as
as
board
chair.
The
third
priority,
of
course,
is
to
make
sure
fundraising
is,
is
running
at
peak
performance
and
because
it
takes
a
lot
of
money
to
do
these
things
and
over
time.
P
P
Round
numbers
is
about
a
dozen
people
on
the
word
right
now,
so
we
can
be
larger
without
it
being
unwieldy.
I,
don't
know
that
we
need
to
be,
but
there's
about
a
dozen
and
on
any
board
pretty
much
any
board.
You've
got
thirty
to
forty
percent
of
the
people
who
were
got
about
their
sleeves
rolled
up
and
deeply
involved,
and
and
the
others
come
to
meetings
and
they're
engaged
but
they're
not
as
deeply
involved
and
I
haven't
yet
made
that
assessment,
because
I
save
on
the
middle
one
board
meetings.
Oh
right,.
P
B
The
other
that's
fantastic
I
mean
it's
a
it's
exciting
to
hear
because
I
mean
I,
know
that
talent
they're
going
to
do
great
things.
So
so
I
know
you
talked
about
making
assessments
and
talking
about
you
know,
what's
worked
and
what
happening
and
how
to
figure
out
determinate
and
how
to
determine
what
you
continue
or
not.
But
you
know
and
I
hope
this
is
a
fair
question,
but
but
woody.
What
do
you
like?
What
what
has
impressed
you
the
most?
If
that's
a
fair
question,
what
the
Promise
Neighborhoods
the.
P
Extended
day,
programs,
I
think,
are
the
place
where
we
actually
have
the
opportunity
to
make
the
biggest
difference
the
more
time
these
children
can
be
connected
to
a
support
structure.
Both
an
academic
support
structure
in
a
nun
academic
support
structure,
then
we'll
contact
time
they
can
have.
With
that
the
higher
the
likelihood.
I
think
that
we're
going
to
be
able
to
make
make
an
impact
on
on
their
on
their
learning
situation.
P
The
second
thing
that
I
think
is
important
is
we're
spending
considerable
time
as
I'm
sure
miss
Pembroke
von
Brenda
pointed
out
really
trying
to
use
the
data
to
improve
performance,
not
for
accountability
purposes,
but
really
to
improve
performance.
So
data
at
the
child
level
to
differentiate
instruction
and
to
really
apply
layered
instruction
and
layered
services
that
are
tailored
to
each
of
those
children's
so
that
collectively,
that
can
be
an
impact
on
these
children
and
their
learning
can
accelerate
I.
P
B
We're
back
with
more
CCSD
today,
I'm
your
host
Erica
Taylor,
and
we're
still
talking
about
the
Charleston
promise
neighborhood
more
specifically,
now
we're
going
to
talk
about
the
expanded
learning
time
at
Sanders
cloud
elementary
school,
so
joining
me
to
share
more
about
that
subject
is
mrs
sheila
Greer
who's,
the
downtown
community
education
director
for
Charleston
County,
School
District.
This
is
a
girl
how
you
doing
good!
Thank
you.
How
are
you
I'm
doing
good?
So,
let's
talk
about
the
downtown
community
education
program.
Okay,.
Q
The
downtown
community
education
department
serves
seven
schools
in
the
downtown
area,
okay,
which
includes
all
elementary
school
in
the
middle
in
high
school,
Burke,
middle
and
high.
One
of
the
things
that
we're
very
excited
about
is
that
we
get
the
opportunity
to
provide
after-school
programming,
especially
in
elementary
schools,
and
we
are
equally
excited
about
having
an
opportunity
to
partner
with
Charleston
promise
neighborhood
that
opportunity.
B
Q
I'm
some
of
the
services
that
we
provide
is
first
that
we
have
the
wonderful
partnership
with
CBN
and
the
principles
in
the
schools.
We
prescribed
to
the
academic
piece
in
the
after-school
program
that
the
principal's
want
the
students
to
have,
which
would
be
additional
academic
support
or
a
homework
support.
One
of
the
other
things
is
that
a
lot
of
students
that
we
serve
would
not
have
the
opportunity
to
be
exposed
to
enrichment
opportunities
activities
such
as
dance
music,
guitar
stems
activities
so
forth,
and
so
on.
B
Q
We
have
partnerships
with
students
from
the
College
of
Charleston.
The
Citadel
is
cadets
are
huge
partner
of
ours.
We
have
backpack
journalism
coming
in.
We
have
brick
by
brick
who
provides
the
stem
piece.
We
have
African
drum
and
dance,
then
I
can
go
on
and
on.
We
have
individuals
in
the
community
who
come
in
and
actually
do
work
with.
The
students
around
academics
are
ela
math
and
science
who
have
those
backgrounds.
So
we
have
a
diverse
group
of
partnership
coming
in
to
make
sure
that
our
kids
are,
you
know,
being
provided
with
quality
service
right.
B
And
so,
and
I'm
going
to
ask
as
we're
talking,
I
mean
your
office
does
so
much
for
our
school
district,
not
just
after
school,
but
year-round
I
mean.
I
know
you
support
the
the
hoodie
backpack
giveaway.
I
know
that
you're
very
instrumental
with
kids,
fair.
I
know
you
even
have
a
summer
program
a
summer
camp.
So
talk
a
little
bit
about
some
of
those
things,
especially
for
our
viewers
who
don't
know
all
that
you
do
because
I
mean
your
portfolio
is
expansive.
Oh.
Q
Great
thank
you
for
giving
you
this
opportunity,
one
of
the
things
that
we
do
have
and
we're
very
excited
to
extend
the
school
year
to
the
summer
year
with
the
students
we
serve,
especially
from
the
kaleidoscope
program.
So
this
year.
We're
very
excited
that
we're
increasing
our
numbers
from
300
to
600
kids,
to
attend
summer
camp
and
in
the
summer
camp,
which
is
formerly
known
as
little
bulldog
summer
camp
we're
going
to
have
two
locations,
one
at
sand
slide,
which
will
be
very
inclusive
of
the
students
who
10
send
this
class
and
also
at
cpa.
Q
This
year.
We
will
have
the
academic
components
which
we
partner
with
the
epic,
which
will
be
doing
the
english
in
the
map,
and
in
the
afternoon
will
we
have
an
enrichment
activities
such
as
dance
music,
guitar
swimming,
and
the
list
goes
on
and
beyond
that
you
talked
a
little
bit
about
Hootie
and
the
Blowfish
and
kids
fair
DOS.
Two
of
our
main
events
that
we
host
that
serve
the
entire
district
and
when
I
say
entire
district.
Q
Q
That
up
I
hope
people
know
that
the
downtown
community
education
office
is
there
for
the
community
and
we
do
do
an
array
of
things
which
includes
on
the
use
of
our
facilities.
But
we
are
always
looking
for
partners
to
help
us
with
our
after-school
program,
meaning
to
come
in
with
the
academic
piece
or
if
someone
has
a
different
type
of
enrichment,
that
I
didn't
talk
about.
We
are
very
open
to
entertaining
those
organizations,
those
individual
who
can
come
in
and
help
us
make
sure
that
we're
given
the
students
that
we
serve.
B
Them
well.
Thank
you
so
much.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
today
on
CCSD
today
and
asthma.
Screw
asked
if
you're,
watching
and
you're
a
partner-
and
you
definitely
want
to
give
back
to
the
community,
give
her
a
call
we'll
provide
her
phone
number
and
email
address
at
the
bottom
of
the
screen
and
you
can
reach
her
stay
tuned,
we'll
be
back
with
more
CCSD.
Today.
B
E
A
question
for
you:
what
does
this
look
like?
It
may
look
like
a
blank
screen,
but
it's
really
an
opportunity
for
you
to
reach
your
customers
with
a
great
television,
commercial,
video
for
your
website
or
web
site
design,
comcast
and
blue
wave
productions
can
create
the
right
message
to
get.
You
noticed
call
today
and
take
the
opportunity
to
make
your
business
stand
out
from
the
crowd.
So.
B
There
you
have
it
another
exciting
show
where
I
hope,
you've
learned
just
as
much
as
I
have
about
the
Charleston
promise
neighborhood.
If
you'd
like
more
information
or
if
you'd
like
to
support,
you,
can
visit
w
WC
CCSD
schools,
com,
backslash,
cpn,
it's
been
a
pleasure
being
your
host
I'm
Erica,
Taylor,
you've
been
watching
CCSD
today
and
we'll
see
you
next
week.