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Creative approaches may be the answer to SC’s educational challenges

Commentary in South Carolina Daily Gazette

“When education specialists from The Riley Institute at Furman University met with an innovative team from the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities last fall, one pathway to success in our state became clear: Choose joy; try something different, not just more of the same.

The Governor’s School has seen incredible results in literacy gains throughout South Carolina with its outreach program called Spark! Inspiring Tomorrow’s Readers Through Drama.

Piloted in 2016 as a partnership between the Governor’s School and the South Carolina Arts Commission, Spark was significantly scaled up in 2021 thanks to an infusion of $2.3 million in federal pandemic aid — doled out over three years — into the Arts Commission’s Arts Grow SC partner network.”

Continue reading this commentary piece by Kelly Gregory and Claudia Winkler in S.C. Daily Gazette.