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Career Clusters connect school work with the knowledge and skills needed for success in college and careers. Each Career Cluster identifies pathways from secondary school to two- and four-year colleges, graduate school, and the workplace. These videos will motivate students to work harder to achieve their career goals.
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Lottie Gibson | SC African American History Calendar (2019) 3
Lottie Gibson | SC African American History Calendar (2019)
Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

For over sixty years, Lottie Gibson fought for Greenville County’s poor and disadvantaged. As a life member of the NAACP’s Greenville Branch, Gibson was an outspoken civil rights activist. As a youth...
Teacher Cadet (2015) | WhatWorksSC
Teacher Cadet (2015) | WhatWorksSC

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

The Teacher Cadet Program, administered by the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement (CERRA), is a highly effective high school recruitment program aimed at attracting the state...
Congressman Jim Clyburn, Part 1 | The Big Picture 1
Congressman Jim Clyburn, Part 1 | The Big Picture
Episode 1

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

To say that Congressman Jim Clyburn is a driven man is an understatement. Clyburn had been involved in politics, one way or another, ever since his youth. It was during his time as South Carolina...
Congressman Jim Clyburn, Part 3 | The Big Picture 3
Congressman Jim Clyburn, Part 3 | The Big Picture
Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

With Clyburn’s success in Washington, he does not have as much time for golf like he used to. Clyburn’s rise through the ranks has been steady, and marked by his ability to reach across the aisle, and...
Blue Sky 102
Blue Sky
Episode 102

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Blue Sky’s second work is located just outside of Florence County, S.C. Sky was commissioned to paint a historical piece, and Blue Sky chose to paint a mural of the Great Pee Dee River.
Blue Sky 101
Blue Sky
Episode 101

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

The mural which Blue Sky shows viewers in this segment, called “Tunnelvision” is an illusion; a tunnel with a sun-rise painted on the other side. The mural is located on Marion Street, in downtown...
Blue Sky 103
Blue Sky
Episode 103

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

In Flint, Michigan, Blue Sky was commissioned to do a mural there, and Sky chose to paint an overflow parking lot, to reflect Flint’s automobile manufacturing background.
Teacher Cadet (2012) | WhatWorksSC
Teacher Cadet (2012) | WhatWorksSC

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Grades: 9 10 11 12

The Teacher Cadet Program is a secondary recruitment program aimed at attracting the “best and brightest” students to the teaching profession. The Program provides a curriculum-based, hands-on...
Parents As Teachers SC (2013) | WhatWorksSC
Parents As Teachers SC (2013) | WhatWorksSC

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2

The Parents as Teachers (PAT) evidence-based home visiting model is designed to ensure young children are healthy, safe, and ready to learn. The model has demonstrated successful results in increasing...
Frank Howard 102
Frank Howard
Episode 102

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Nearly every morning, Coach Howard and friends meet for coffee at a restaurant near the Clemson campus. Coach Howard then discusses his coaching career while taking viewers around his home, and the...
Frank Howard 103
Frank Howard
Episode 103

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Coach Frank Howard joins host Tom Fowler for an interview. Coach Howard discusses his organization activities since retiring, the high points of his career, how football teams traveled, and how...
Frank Howard 101
Frank Howard
Episode 101

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Coach Frank Howard, also known as “The Bashful Baron of Barlow Bend,” had an illustrious career as the head coach of the Clemson Tigers football team. After he retired from Clemson, Coach Howard...
Teacher Cadet (2013) | WhatWorksSC
Teacher Cadet (2013) | WhatWorksSC

Video

Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

The Teacher Cadet Program is a secondary recruitment program aimed at attracting the “best and brightest” students to the teaching profession. The Program provides a curriculum-based, hands-on...
Healing Species (2016) | WhatWorksSC
Healing Species (2016) | WhatWorksSC

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

With the help of rescued dogs nobody else wanted, Healing Species’ trained instructors provide twelve classroom lessons in compassion/humane education and violence prevention to elementary, middle...
Joanne Woodward 101
Joanne Woodward
Episode 101

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

In this first segment, Joanne Woodward discusses her childhood, growing up in Greenville, her education, and inspirations for wanting to pursue a career in the arts. Woodward, originally from...
Joanne Woodward 103
Joanne Woodward
Episode 103

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

In this final segment, Joanne Woodward discusses her marriage with Paul Newman, and the challenges that come from juggling family life with her acting career.
Joanne Woodward 102
Joanne Woodward
Episode 102

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Joanne Woodward talks about the early days of her career. Before going to New York, Woodward temporarily worked as a secretary for Albert Quigley. Upon arriving in New York, Woodward first went to...
Steve Benjamin | SC African American History Calendar 1
Steve Benjamin | SC African American History Calendar
Episode 1

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Mayor Steve Benjamin, Columbia’s first African American mayor, was elected in a record-turnout election in 2010. He made it his mission to shape the Capital City into the most talented, educated and...
The Space Race Photo Gallery
The Space Race Photo Gallery

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

This photo gallery includes the following images: United States Air Force Pilot Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager Bell X-1 Sputnik National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Logo President Dwight D...
The Space Race, Part 2 2
The Space Race, Part 2
Episode 2

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Grades: 5 6 7 9 10 11 12

Gemini is the not widely known bridge between Mercury, and the Apollo Program. Gemini would serve as the test-bed for Apollo; to prepare NASA for trips to the moon. After the successes with the Gemini...
The Space Race, Part 1 1
The Space Race, Part 1
Episode 1

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Grades: 5 6 7 9 10 11 12

Part 1 briefly outlines the Cold War, and how the "Space Race" got started, with the Soviets' launching of Sputnik, in October, 1957. Next came the U.S. competing with the Soviets to launch a man into...