Manning Early Childhood Center is helping all students develop world-class skills and life and career characteristics of the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate by focusing on collaboration, creativity and innovation in a safe and nurturing environment that exemplifies rigorous academic standards, world-class enterprise learning, and professional development opportunities for teachers.
A primary instructional goal for Manning Early Childhood Center is to provide standards-based instruction that will lead students to read, write, and compute at or above their instructional/grade levels before leaving MECC for Manning Primary School. To ensure effective communication and collaboration across grade levels for instructional staff, students, parents, and administrator steps were taken to implement the use of conference notebooks. The conference notebooks provided a framework for educational progression for each student. Maintaining conference notebooks also aided teachers when making critical academic decisions and guided them in designing instructional plans for students' academic success. Students' critical thinking and creativity skills were broadened through hands-on experiences that included various projects and presentations with home-school connections in science, STEM, math, Black History Projects, famous Americans, and writing.
Manning Early Childhood Center strives to provide the skills needed to prepare students to be successful graduates by beginning with the end in mind through providing school choice programs, Primary Montessori, full-day Pre-K, and a Developmentally Delay preschool program for disabled students beginning at age three. Differentiated instruction through small focus groups and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support a framework that was used to provide targeted academic support to struggling students as well as behavioral support to address student challenges.
Opportunities for parents through our community supported the Family Resource Center with two-parent educators provide extra home to school support for parents and students. The Families Reading Day (FRED) take-home reading project is provided through a Community Block Grant and partners with local child care providers, South Carolina First Steps and Head Start in order to give families literacy materials and training to ensure kindergarten readiness. Pre-Kindergarten students and families participated in Waterford Upstart Program through South Carolina CERDEP with the goal of giving students early starts to being successful providing each student an iPad loaded with focused, intentional, strategic Waterford instruction.
Rosa D. Stokes, Principal
Joann Hilton-Deas, SIC Chairperson
