SC TEACHER

What SC TEACHER does

SC TEACHER (legal name: South Carolina Teacher Education Advancement Consortium for Higher Education Research) is a state-funded research consortium housed within the College of Education at the University of South Carolina, headquartered at 820 Main Street, Columbia, SC. Founded between 2018 and 2021 and operating with a 9-person research and operations staff, the consortium conducts comprehensive research on South Carolina's PK-12 educator workforce and pipeline, generating data used by districts, state agencies, and policymakers to address teacher recruitment, retention, attrition, and working conditions statewide.

The consortium's core technology is an integrated statewide data infrastructure that combines longitudinal administrative educator records with multiple recurring survey instruments: the biennial SC Teacher Working Conditions Survey (SCTWCS, mandated under Act 185 of 2022), the inaugural 2026 SC Administrator Working Conditions Survey (SCAWCS), and the annual SC Teacher Exit Survey (administered since 2021). This data feeds two interactive platforms: the public Data Ecosystem (sc-teacher.org/data-ecosystem) for statewide workforce trend visualization, and District Landscape (district.sc-teacher.org), a self-serve portal giving each participating district access to its own survey findings and comparative benchmarks. Complementary offerings include Data + Insight Workshops (in-person, gated to districts with ≥50% SCTWCS response), an interactive Toolkit library, a Report Library, and Litmus Policy Solutions — a convening program for ~25 education leaders per cohort.

The business model is non-commercial. All surveys, dashboards, workshops, and reports are provided at no cost to South Carolina public school districts, and SC TEACHER is funded through state appropriations routed via the University of South Carolina. Revenue is not disclosed. Distribution is community-led: direct email outreach from a small operations team to superintendents and personnel administrators at all 75 SC traditional public school districts drives survey participation (75% district participation in the 2025 SCTWCS, 74% in the 2026 SCAWCS, 41 districts in the 2025 Teacher Exit Survey). The primary customer segments are the SC public school districts themselves and state education policymakers, with secondary audiences of PK-12 educators, higher education partners, and education-focused associations.

Name

SC TEACHER

Legal name

South Carolina Teacher Education Advancement Consortium for Higher Education Research

Website

https://sc-teacher.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Short description

SC TEACHER is a state-funded research consortium within the University of South Carolina's College of Education that conducts statewide surveys and builds data infrastructure on South Carolina's PK-12 educator workforce, serving all 75 SC public school districts and state policymakers with free working-conditions, exit, and administrator surveys plus interactive data dashboards.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Workforce Research

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Teacher Workforce & Professional Standards Policy Research (EDADADAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Teacher Education Standards & Professional Practice Framework Authorities (EDADAEAH), Standards Alignment & Curriculum Mapping (State/National) (EDAJAFAD)

Keywords

• Educator workforce research
• Teacher working conditions
• Educator pipeline analysis
• Teacher exit surveys
• School administrator research

Headquarters

HQ city

Columbia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. State Funding: SC TEACHER is a state-funded research consortium housed within the College of Education at the University of South Carolina, receiving public funding to conduct educator workforce research.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SC TEACHER is a state-funded research consortium that administers statewide surveys on educator working conditions and conducts original research on South Carolina's teacher and administrator workforce. It provides districts and policymakers with survey administration, district-specific data reports, interactive dashboards, and analytic reports on educator recruitment, mobility, attrition, and retention, all provided at no cost to participating SC public school districts.

Product overview

SC TEACHER is a state-funded research consortium housed within the University of South Carolina's College of Education that provides comprehensive research on South Carolina's educator workforce and pipeline. The organization operates as a research and data services organization rather than a traditional product company, offering a portfolio of survey instruments (SC Teacher Working Conditions Survey, SC Administrator Working Conditions Survey, SC Teacher Exit Survey), data platforms (District Landscape, Data Ecosystem), policy programs (Litmus Policy Solutions), and resource tools (Toolkits, Report Library, Glossary). The core offerings work together as an integrated data infrastructure designed to inform state and district education policy and practice through systematic data collection, analysis, and dissemination.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Litmus Policy Solutions: An experience focused on South Carolina's education landscape, steeped in state-specific research informing policy, bringing together about 25 leaders to examine education policy questions.

Products and services

• SC Teacher Working Conditions Survey (SCTWCS) A biennial statewide survey exploring public school and district factors related to classroom teacher support and retention. Conducted pursuant to Act 185, it captures teacher perspectives on workplace resources and demands and provides district-specific results to participating SC public school districts.
• SC Administrator Working Conditions Survey (SCAWCS) A statewide survey measuring the working conditions, job demands, resources, satisfaction, and retention intentions of school-level leaders including principals, assistant principals, and CTE directors. Administered every other year.
• SC Teacher Exit Survey An annual statewide survey collecting data from public PK-12 classroom teachers leaving their positions, providing state and district-level insights into attrition factors and how working conditions relate to teachers' decisions to leave the classroom.
• District Landscape Platform A streamlined online platform for SC public school districts to access their unique, interactive survey findings and data dashboards from SC TEACHER surveys, including comparative state-level benchmarks.
• Data Ecosystem An interactive public-facing data visualization dashboard exploring teacher and administrator recruitment, mobility, attrition, and retention trends throughout South Carolina using integrated data from multiple sources.
• Litmus Policy Solutions A policy learning experience convened by SC TEACHER, bringing together approximately 25 education leaders from districts, schools, higher education, associations, agencies, and nonprofits to examine current education policy questions using SC TEACHER research.
• Data + Insight Workshops In-person workshops provided free of charge to SC public school districts that achieve at least a 50% response rate on the SC Teacher Working Conditions Survey, covering practical uses for district data alongside content experts on topics like PADEPP, Cognia accreditation, budgeting, and data interpretation.

Quantifiable outcome

• 75% of SC public school districts and 59.5% of teachers participated in the 2025 survey
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• University of South Carolina - College of EducationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSC TEACHER is housed within the College of Education at the University of South Carolina, providing institutional affiliation, academic resources, and research infrastructure. The partnership enables access to university faculty expertise and academic credibility for the research consortium.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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