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MESSAGE FROM SCCTM PRESIDENT

Greetings SCCTM Members, Sponsors, Colleagues, and Friends!

It is an exciting time for math educators in South Carolina, and I am humbly
honored to serve as the President of SCCTM, representing the exceptional
educators throughout our state! I have served as VP-Middle Schools,
Nominating Chair, and President-Elect for SCCTM. My work with the SCCTM
began when I served as an SCCTM Fellow, and I’ve continued volunteering
and committing myself to the vision of SCCTM over the last eight years.
During my time working with SCCTM, I have, also, been a leading voice with
developing our SCCTM Ambassadors initiative to work to ensure that we are
reaching educators in every corner of our state.

As we look forward to the coming year, I am excited about our opportunities to
learn and grow together as we explore the newly adopted 2023 SCCCR Math Standards. If we embrace
this as a joint effort, I am confident that we will see improvements in student math performance in the
coming years. With this in mind, I am encouraged and excited about the continued growth in attendance at
our annual conference. This means that we are beginning to reach more educators, instructional leaders,
school administrators, and district administrators in our efforts to improve math education. In addition, we
are excited about the growth we are seeing with the number of vendors and supporters of SCCTM.

It is critically important that I thank those who paved the way for the continued growth of SCCTM, so I
would like to thank our immediate Past President, Alisa Hobgood, and all Past Presidents who have
served prior to my service. In addition, I want to thank our Executive Director, Cindy Parker, who
continues to serve with the greatest level of fervor and humility.

Currently, I, also, serve as the President-Elect for the South Carolina Leaders of Mathematics Education
(SCLME), and I am eager to begin the process of developing a closer relationship between this group and
SCCTM. Again, we are better together, and together, we can truly transform math education across our
state. I am truly motivated and encouraged about what lies ahead. I am even more encouraged as I
continue to work with math educators and leaders across the state and witness the commitment to
personal and collective development, so we can all honor our primary goal – presenting and doing what’s
best for children!

It is my hope that we all take a moment to reflect on what is going well in our schools, districts, and state,
and we celebrate those small accomplishments. While doing so, it is my hope that we take up the banner
of supporting each other as we navigate the shifts in the math standards and begin developing and
building a new climate and culture where students embrace mathematics, are engaged fully in math
classrooms, and achieve academic success because they have mastered the standards presented to
them. We can only accomplish this if we are willing to share our experiences and expertise! In so doing,
we invite you to contribute to our publication, the MathMate. In addition, we invite you to submit a proposal

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