Palmetto Pathways Academy
Vendor
About
Palmetto Pathways Academy is a new free public charter school serving students across South Carolina in grades 6-12. We are South Carolina’s first school without walls — a learner-centered ecosystem where learning happens everywhere, including online, in-person alongside community mentors in real workplaces, and with peers in regionally located learning innovation hubs. We partner with families and with members of the community to support individualized learning journeys for each student. Through our blended individualized approach and robust course offerings (including advanced, career and technical education, college preparatory, dual enrollment, honors, and special education), students graduate with a solid academic foundation, strong collaboration skills, workforce experience, proficiency in the responsible use of emerging technology, confidence in their abilities and next steps, and ready to take on the world!
Palmetto Pathways Academy was created by a team of dedicated and passionate veteran South Carolina educators with extensive experience at all education levels and across multiple education settings.
Location
Columbia, SC
Manager
Catayah Clark
Catayah Clark serves as the founding committee chair for Palmetto Pathways Academy. She has over twenty years of experience as a South Carolina educator and has served as an English teacher in a technology magnet program, a High Schools that Work school level Smaller Learning Community Leadership Team member, a cooperating teacher for college practicum students and student teaching interns, a technology and learning coach, an SCDE Education Associate/VirtualSC instructional coach and instruction team leader, and a virtual charter high school principal and director of secondary education. Catayah has extensive experience in virtual school and program leadership, growth, and transformation. In K-12 virtual settings, her leadership strategies have resulted in improved student outcomes on state-level assessments, decreases in achievement gaps amongst student groups, and improved school report card ratings. Catayah currently serves on the National Standards for Quality Online Learning (NSQ) Leadership Team, the South Carolina Career Development Association Leadership Team, and the University of South Carolina Principal’s Advisory Board. Catayah holds master’s degrees from the University of South Carolina in secondary education and education administration in addition to a state teaching certification in secondary English and a certification in secondary administration.
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