August 2018 began the fourth academic year of OnTrack Greenville (OTG), the broad collaborative to boost middle grade success at Berea, Lakeview, and Tanglewood Middle Schools and Greenville Early College. It also began the freshman year of high school for the first group of students...
At the March 2018 GPP, guest speaker Jennifer Parker, PhD, LPC, Director Child Advocacy Studies, Professor Psychology at University of South Carolina Upstate asked attendees to think of their earliest memories. Most reported memories from when they were three years old, which included a first...
It is hard to believe that OnTrack Greenville is in the third year as it feels like yesterday that we met together to envision an innovative way to impact middle grade success. Partners agree that they are now “cooking with oil,” as they have learned...
In 2014, the Social Innovation Fund agreed to invest $3 million in the United Way of Greenville County over three years to support OnTrack Greenville. The goal of OnTrack Greenville is to increase success in four high poverty middle schools where students have historically been...
[caption id="attachment_497" align="alignright" width="300"] OnTrack partners and school staff and students at Tanglewood Middle present the initiative to Ms. Tionne M. Jackson, Legislative Correspondent with U.S. Senator Tim Scott[/caption] When a student begins seventh grade, she feels a level of comfort, unlike during the first year...