Missing Advantage Greenville?? - Part I

If you didn't participate in Advantage Greenville event in July, you missed two great events. First, Mark Bounds, Deputy Superintendent of Education for the State spoke about Jim Rex's five points for education:

• Dramatically Accelerating Innovation
• Improving Choice
• Increasing Accountability (while lessening test burdens)
• Elevating the Profession of Teaching
• Ensuring Fair & Equitable Funding.
  

Bounds shared at least three or four initiatives under each of these areas that are helping to move the needle on education in South Carolina.

He recommended a book that is seems to be undergirding a lot of thought and activity in Columbia - Disrupting Education by Clayton Christensen. Many of us in the economic development community know Christensen's seminal work - The Innovator's Dilemma. Christensen has taken the same lens of theoretical research to the education sphere. I highly recommend the book. It has changed my opinions on many things about education, especially about how valuable charter schools can be to enhancing innovation in the system. More on that and other Advantage Greenville happenings later..

Economic Scorecard Update

Greater Greenville Regional Economic Scorecard - Update Coming Soon!

We are planning on unveiling the results from this year's Scorecard at the March 30th Advantage Greenville Luncheon. The Scorecard has provided a great tool to drive community conversation about doing what matters most for impacting community prosperity. The Scorecard has also driven the program of work for the Chamber. Currently, the Chamber is engaged in an education collaborative with other organizations seeking to foster a climate that underscores the value of education in the community. We are involved in an Advanced Education Partnership. We are creating a talent attraction strategy for the community, etc. All of these play a role in moving the needle on the Labor Force Education indicator within the Scorecard schema. Much work has been done but much remains to be done as well. We hope that you will join us in this important project. To register for the March 30 event (open only to Advantage Greenville members), click here.

To view a copy of last year's Scorecard results, click here.