Education

Students and teachers at Petersburg Primary School will be greeted in August by a new, but familiar face.

Janice Kiser, who has worked with the Chesterfield County School District for 27 years, was officially named principal of Petersburg Primary during the CCSD board of directors meeting on April 8 at Plainview Elementary School in Cheraw.

She will take over as principal of Petersburg Primary for the 2013-14 school year.

A Pageland Elementary School third-grade science and math teacher has been selected to attend a special science seminar this summer.
Kristin Cox will be part of the Science P.L.U.S. Institute, which provides intensive training in science teaching methods and activities to public school science teachers throughout South Carolina. The institute is part of the Roper Mountain Science Center, a facility of the Greenville County Schools.

Newly elected McBee Elementary School Teacher of the Year Angie Smith has had her class studying a book of poems called “Honey I Love” by Eloise Greenfield.  

Students were moved by the poems and used much of the poet’s style and voice to create poetry of their own.  

Near the end of their book study, one of the students asked the teacher, “Wouldn’t it be nice if each of us had a copy of this book to keep forever?”  

The University of South Carolina partnered with Chesterfield County School District and Northeastern Technical College on Friday, March 22 to hold a public forum to remind the community about the power of education and the importance of working together to ensure every child gets an education.

Dr. Lemuel W. Watson, dean of the College of Education at USC, spoke about his modest roots of growing up on a dirt road in Chesterfield County and how education has made a difference throughout  his life.