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• Name	Trevor IVEY  [3, 4]
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  HIST	of Wedgefield, South Carolina Ivey loses S.C. teacher title but still a winner locally Sumter School District Teacher of the Year Trevor Ivey shakes hands with district Superintendent Randolph Bynum after the 2013 South Carolina Teacher of the Year Ceremony in Columbia. Ivey was one of the five finalists in the competition. The award went to Darleen S. Sutton, a first-grade teacher at Pickens Elementary School, School District of Pickens County. BY JAMIE H. WILSON Special to The Item COLUMBIA - Sumter School District Teacher of the Year Trevor Ivey is an amazing teacher and person, so say his peers, students, friends, family, bosses and many others. The Alice Drive Middle School teacher wasn't selected as the South Carolina Teacher of the Year during the ceremony on Wednesday evening, but that doesn't mean that Ivey won't leave a legacy of education excellence as he continues in his career. "It's been a wonderful learning opportunity to be a teacher of the year," Ivey said. "I have grown tremendously since I started my teaching journey some six years ago, and none of this would have been possible without the mighty shoulders I have been able to lean on and learn from." SC Future Minds, the sponsor of the South Carolina Teacher of the Year program, awarded the coveted teaching prize to Darleen S. Sutton, a first-grade teacher at Pickens Elementary School, School District of Pickens County. The top prize comes with several prizes, chief among them a one-year lease on a BMW vehicle as well as $25,000. Ivey and the other remaining finalists will each receive $10,000 along with the title of Honor Roll Teacher as well as other prizes. Ivey said he is looking forward to his future endeavors as an educator in Sumter County. "I'm looking forward to being a teacher leader under the administration of Mr. Bynum," he said. "I want to make an impact in the classroom. That is what is most important to me." Mick Zais, the state superintendent of education, said he wanted to emphasize the prestige of being one of the five finalists for state teacher of the year. "There are 51,000 teachers in South Carolina," he said. "If you are one of the finalists, you are one in 10,000." In his six-year career as a teacher, Ivey has already made waves in the local school district, impacting those around him. Ivey's accomplishments are many. He is a national board certified teacher. Ivey was the first educator from Sumter to be selected as a presenter at the S.C. Education and Business Summit. He is the president for the 2013-14 Sumter School District Teacher Forum. For the past three years, Ivey has taught science at Alice Drive Middle School, where he founded a chapter of ProTeam, a middle school version of Teacher Cadets which is sponsored by the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement. After graduating from the University of South Carolina Upstate with a degree in elementary education, Ivey taught at both High Hills and Cherryvale Elementary schools. According to then-Cherryvale Principal Jeannie Pressley, Ivey's students boasted the highest scores in the district and above the state average on standardized testing. When he returned to Sumter, Ivey began to teach middle school. Shortly after, Ivey earned two master's degrees in educational concentration from Lesley University then Harvard University. His ambition to make a difference in the world began even earlier. When he was 19 years old, Ivey participated in two internships with former Rep. John Spratt and Sen. Lindsay Graham. At 22, Ivey embarked on a 27-month stint in the Peace Corps to Paraguay where he served as an elementary school adviser. Ivey's accomplishments in and out of the classroom have garnered the praise of his peers, past and current principals as well as Sumter School District Superintendent Randolph D. Bynum Sr. "He truly deserves to be recognized not just at the school and district level but statewide," said Bynum, after Ivey was announced as one of the five finalists in the statewide competition. "He is one of the finest teachers I've had the opportunity to observe in practice. He is there for the right reason - the kids." Posted in Local news, News on Thursday, May 2, 2013 Sumter Liberty STEAM Charter's Ivey is being recognized as 2021 Outstanding Alumni from USC Trevor Ivey is seen with Dr. Marilyn Izzard, the longtime director of the USC Upstate Education Program. Posted Saturday, March 13, 2021 6:00 am FROM STAFF REPORTS One of the founding leaders of Sumter County's first tuition-free public charter school was recently recognized by his alma mater. Trevor Ivey, Liberty STEAM Charter's founding chief of staff, was selected to receive the 2021 University of South Carolina Upstate Outstanding Alumni Award. According to the USC Upstate Alumni Association, the Outstanding Alumni Award annually recognizes an alum of the university whose achievements in career, public service and volunteerism have brought honor to the alum and to the university. The award takes into account worth accolades in all of the following areas: professional career achievements, community affairs at the local and support levels, as well as support of the advancement and continued excellence of USC Upstate. Currently in his 14th year in education, Ivey helped to lead the incubation and authorization efforts at Liberty STEAM, which is set to open in August. In his current role, Ivey connects stakeholders with the school's short-term and long-term strategy with the goal of ensuring the charter school achieves outcomes at scale with the ultimate goal to become one of the top 10 best public schools in the country. According to Ivey, "helping to turn Greg A. Thompson's vision into a reality for our hometown community has been the greatest honor of his professional career." Liberty STEAM Charter seeks to "redefine educational excellence in Sumter in creating a transformational public education opportunity for scholars across Sumter through a rigorous 'whole learner' approach in a structured, but nurturing, learning environment," according to a news release. Ivey first learned about charter schools as a graduate student at Harvard University in 2010, and it was there that he knew he would one day be part of the effort to launch this in the Sumter community. Prior to this, Ivey served for 12 years in various roles with Sumter School District to include director of teacher recruitment and retention, principal of Willow Drive Elementary School, assistant principal of Alice Drive Middle School and science classroom teacher of six years at the elementary and middle school level. A proud product of the public schools of Sumter County, Ivey graduated from Lakewood High School. He holds various education degrees from the University of South Carolina, South Carolina State University and Harvard University. Ivey is also a National Board Certified Teacher. He was named Sumter's top teacher in 2012 and then elevated as one of the five finalists for S.C. Teacher of the Year in 2013. Ivey also serves his community on the Sumter County Election Commission, South Carolina School Improvement Council Board of Trustees and the Central Carolina Technical College Foundation Board of Trustees. Throughout his career, Ivey said he has enjoyed unique opportunities to make positive impacts across the public education landscape at the local, state and federal level through his ability to advocate, inspire and advance the profession while innovatively connecting people, ideas and resources to build social-impact programs of scale. He said in the news release that while "this award is validation of his purpose, passion and perseverance, excellence has always been my north star, and it is because of the mighty shoulders I have been able to lean on and learn who continue to motivate me with a deep commitment to educational justice and redefining educational excellence." Liberty STEAM board names Ivey executive director of Sumter charter school Liberty STEAM Charter School Board of Director the Rev. Marion Newton, left, shakes hands with the school's new executive director, Trevor Ivey, on Monday night after the board meeting. Fellow director Jenny Knopf looks on. BRUCE MILLS / THE SUMTER ITEM Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2023 6:00 am BY BRUCE MILLS bruce@theitem.com Trevor Ivey can now remove the "interim" tag from his title at Liberty STEAM Charter School. After approving third and final reading of its new fiscal year budget, Liberty STEAM's Board of Directors unanimously approved naming Ivey its charter school executive director at Monday's regularly scheduled meeting at its primary academy campus in South Sumter. A Sumter native and previous Sumter School District teacher and administrator, Ivey was initially hired as the public charter school's first employee nearly four years ago in fall 2019 when it was still a concept. He was on the charter's initial planning committee and prepared its application for approval to open in spring 2020 by its authorizer/sponsor, the state Public Charter School District, based in Columbia. Ivey held the position of charter school chief of staff until about a year ago when Liberty's first executive director, Khalil Graham, resigned to become the leader of a small public charter network in St. Louis, Missouri. Ivey was named interim executive director in July 2022 before earning the promotion this week. This past year, Liberty STEAM was a K-2 school with about 325 students, or "scholars," as it refers to them. When next school year begins in August, it will add third grade and expand to 586 students. The board of directors' vision is to add one grade per year and eventually become a K-12 school with about 2,000 students. "It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as an original member of the charter planning committee and founder of Liberty STEAM Charter," Ivey said. "We have built an incredible learning community, and I am thrilled to be able to continue building relationships with scholars, staff and families to work together in leading our collective efforts to provide the absolute best experience for every scholar. We do that because at the end of the day, kids only get one shot at a K-12 education, and our scholars deserve nothing but the best." Ivey was named the local district's teacher of the year in 2012, making it to be a top-five finalist for statewide teacher of the year in 2013. He holds education degrees from the University of South Carolina, South Carolina State University and Harvard University and is a National Board Certified Teacher. $7.8M BUDGET APPROVED Liberty STEAM's full board also unanimously approved third and final reading of its fiscal year 2023-24 budget, totaling $7.8 million, on Monday. In the process of three readings, Liberty's board trimmed its budget from $8.5 million to $7.8 million. Ivey added that leadership accomplished that without compromising a co-teacher model in third grade to eliminate a "COVID achievement gap" or "COVID slide," referring to the change for school-aged children from in-person, classroom instruction to virtual learning during the height of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. As a public charter school, Liberty STEAM receives state and federal funding, but it does not receive local tax collections because it does not have tax-generating authority. SITE 2 RENOVATION UPDATE AT FORMER JCPENNEY After the meeting, Ivey said the new elementary academy campus in the front portion of the former JCPenney store location in Sumter Mall is progressing. Accent wall painting is finished, exterior glass windows have been installed, and a renovation of the parking lot has begun. The new campus must be ready for teachers on July 27, and the first day of school for students is Thursday, Aug. 3. Second- and third-graders will be housed at the mall campus. In other action, Liberty's full board approved the board meeting calendar for the 2023-24 school year.  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  HIST	of Wedgefield, South Carolina Ivey loses S.C. teacher title but still a winner locally Sumter School District Teacher of the Year Trevor Ivey shakes hands with district Superintendent Randolph Bynum after the 2013 South Carolina Teacher of the Year Ceremony in Columbia. Ivey was one of the five finalists in the competition. The award went to Darleen S. Sutton, a first-grade teacher at Pickens Elementary School, School District of Pickens County. BY JAMIE H. WILSON Special to The Item COLUMBIA - Sumter School District Teacher of the Year Trevor Ivey is an amazing teacher and person, so say his peers, students, friends, family, bosses and many others. The Alice Drive Middle School teacher wasn't selected as the South Carolina Teacher of the Year during the ceremony on Wednesday evening, but that doesn't mean that Ivey won't leave a legacy of education excellence as he continues in his career. "It's been a wonderful learning opportunity to be a teacher of the year," Ivey said. "I have grown tremendously since I started my teaching journey some six years ago, and none of this would have been possible without the mighty shoulders I have been able to lean on and learn from." SC Future Minds, the sponsor of the South Carolina Teacher of the Year program, awarded the coveted teaching prize to Darleen S. Sutton, a first-grade teacher at Pickens Elementary School, School District of Pickens County. The top prize comes with several prizes, chief among them a one-year lease on a BMW vehicle as well as $25,000. Ivey and the other remaining finalists will each receive $10,000 along with the title of Honor Roll Teacher as well as other prizes. Ivey said he is looking forward to his future endeavors as an educator in Sumter County. "I'm looking forward to being a teacher leader under the administration of Mr. Bynum," he said. "I want to make an impact in the classroom. That is what is most important to me." Mick Zais, the state superintendent of education, said he wanted to emphasize the prestige of being one of the five finalists for state teacher of the year. "There are 51,000 teachers in South Carolina," he said. "If you are one of the finalists, you are one in 10,000." In his six-year career as a teacher, Ivey has already made waves in the local school district, impacting those around him. Ivey's accomplishments are many. He is a national board certified teacher. Ivey was the first educator from Sumter to be selected as a presenter at the S.C. Education and Business Summit. He is the president for the 2013-14 Sumter School District Teacher Forum. For the past three years, Ivey has taught science at Alice Drive Middle School, where he founded a chapter of ProTeam, a middle school version of Teacher Cadets which is sponsored by the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement. After graduating from the University of South Carolina Upstate with a degree in elementary education, Ivey taught at both High Hills and Cherryvale Elementary schools. According to then-Cherryvale Principal Jeannie Pressley, Ivey's students boasted the highest scores in the district and above the state average on standardized testing. When he returned to Sumter, Ivey began to teach middle school. Shortly after, Ivey earned two master's degrees in educational concentration from Lesley University then Harvard University. His ambition to make a difference in the world began even earlier. When he was 19 years old, Ivey participated in two internships with former Rep. John Spratt and Sen. Lindsay Graham. At 22, Ivey embarked on a 27-month stint in the Peace Corps to Paraguay where he served as an elementary school adviser. Ivey's accomplishments in and out of the classroom have garnered the praise of his peers, past and current principals as well as Sumter School District Superintendent Randolph D. Bynum Sr. "He truly deserves to be recognized not just at the school and district level but statewide," said Bynum, after Ivey was announced as one of the five finalists in the statewide competition. "He is one of the finest teachers I've had the opportunity to observe in practice. He is there for the right reason - the kids." Posted in Local news, News on Thursday, May 2, 2013 Sumter Liberty STEAM Charter's Ivey is being recognized as 2021 Outstanding Alumni from USC Trevor Ivey is seen with Dr. Marilyn Izzard, the longtime director of the USC Upstate Education Program. Posted Saturday, March 13, 2021 6:00 am FROM STAFF REPORTS One of the founding leaders of Sumter County's first tuition-free public charter school was recently recognized by his alma mater. Trevor Ivey, Liberty STEAM Charter's founding chief of staff, was selected to receive the 2021 University of South Carolina Upstate Outstanding Alumni Award. According to the USC Upstate Alumni Association, the Outstanding Alumni Award annually recognizes an alum of the university whose achievements in career, public service and volunteerism have brought honor to the alum and to the university. The award takes into account worth accolades in all of the following areas: professional career achievements, community affairs at the local and support levels, as well as support of the advancement and continued excellence of USC Upstate. Currently in his 14th year in education, Ivey helped to lead the incubation and authorization efforts at Liberty STEAM, which is set to open in August. In his current role, Ivey connects stakeholders with the school's short-term and long-term strategy with the goal of ensuring the charter school achieves outcomes at scale with the ultimate goal to become one of the top 10 best public schools in the country. According to Ivey, "helping to turn Greg A. Thompson's vision into a reality for our hometown community has been the greatest honor of his professional career." Liberty STEAM Charter seeks to "redefine educational excellence in Sumter in creating a transformational public education opportunity for scholars across Sumter through a rigorous 'whole learner' approach in a structured, but nurturing, learning environment," according to a news release. Ivey first learned about charter schools as a graduate student at Harvard University in 2010, and it was there that he knew he would one day be part of the effort to launch this in the Sumter community. Prior to this, Ivey served for 12 years in various roles with Sumter School District to include director of teacher recruitment and retention, principal of Willow Drive Elementary School, assistant principal of Alice Drive Middle School and science classroom teacher of six years at the elementary and middle school level. A proud product of the public schools of Sumter County, Ivey graduated from Lakewood High School. He holds various education degrees from the University of South Carolina, South Carolina State University and Harvard University. Ivey is also a National Board Certified Teacher. He was named Sumter's top teacher in 2012 and then elevated as one of the five finalists for S.C. Teacher of the Year in 2013. Ivey also serves his community on the Sumter County Election Commission, South Carolina School Improvement Council Board of Trustees and the Central Carolina Technical College Foundation Board of Trustees. Throughout his career, Ivey said he has enjoyed unique opportunities to make positive impacts across the public education landscape at the local, state and federal level through his ability to advocate, inspire and advance the profession while innovatively connecting people, ideas and resources to build social-impact programs of scale. He said in the news release that while "this award is validation of his purpose, passion and perseverance, excellence has always been my north star, and it is because of the mighty shoulders I have been able to lean on and learn who continue to motivate me with a deep commitment to educational justice and redefining educational excellence." Liberty STEAM board names Ivey executive director of Sumter charter school Liberty STEAM Charter School Board of Director the Rev. Marion Newton, left, shakes hands with the school's new executive director, Trevor Ivey, on Monday night after the board meeting. Fellow director Jenny Knopf looks on. BRUCE MILLS / THE SUMTER ITEM Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2023 6:00 am BY BRUCE MILLS bruce@theitem.com Trevor Ivey can now remove the "interim" tag from his title at Liberty STEAM Charter School. After approving third and final reading of its new fiscal year budget, Liberty STEAM's Board of Directors unanimously approved naming Ivey its charter school executive director at Monday's regularly scheduled meeting at its primary academy campus in South Sumter. A Sumter native and previous Sumter School District teacher and administrator, Ivey was initially hired as the public charter school's first employee nearly four years ago in fall 2019 when it was still a concept. He was on the charter's initial planning committee and prepared its application for approval to open in spring 2020 by its authorizer/sponsor, the state Public Charter School District, based in Columbia. Ivey held the position of charter school chief of staff until about a year ago when Liberty's first executive director, Khalil Graham, resigned to become the leader of a small public charter network in St. Louis, Missouri. Ivey was named interim executive director in July 2022 before earning the promotion this week. This past year, Liberty STEAM was a K-2 school with about 325 students, or "scholars," as it refers to them. When next school year begins in August, it will add third grade and expand to 586 students. The board of directors' vision is to add one grade per year and eventually become a K-12 school with about 2,000 students. "It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as an original member of the charter planning committee and founder of Liberty STEAM Charter," Ivey said. "We have built an incredible learning community, and I am thrilled to be able to continue building relationships with scholars, staff and families to work together in leading our collective efforts to provide the absolute best experience for every scholar. We do that because at the end of the day, kids only get one shot at a K-12 education, and our scholars deserve nothing but the best." Ivey was named the local district's teacher of the year in 2012, making it to be a top-five finalist for statewide teacher of the year in 2013. He holds education degrees from the University of South Carolina, South Carolina State University and Harvard University and is a National Board Certified Teacher. $7.8M BUDGET APPROVED Liberty STEAM's full board also unanimously approved third and final reading of its fiscal year 2023-24 budget, totaling $7.8 million, on Monday. In the process of three readings, Liberty's board trimmed its budget from $8.5 million to $7.8 million. Ivey added that leadership accomplished that without compromising a co-teacher model in third grade to eliminate a "COVID achievement gap" or "COVID slide," referring to the change for school-aged children from in-person, classroom instruction to virtual learning during the height of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. As a public charter school, Liberty STEAM receives state and federal funding, but it does not receive local tax collections because it does not have tax-generating authority. SITE 2 RENOVATION UPDATE AT FORMER JCPENNEY After the meeting, Ivey said the new elementary academy campus in the front portion of the former JCPenney store location in Sumter Mall is progressing. Accent wall painting is finished, exterior glass windows have been installed, and a renovation of the parking lot has begun. The new campus must be ready for teachers on July 27, and the first day of school for students is Thursday, Aug. 3. Second- and third-graders will be housed at the mall campus. In other action, Liberty's full board approved the board meeting calendar for the 2023-24 school year.
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  Father	Charles T. “Bud” IVEY, Jr.
  Mother	Debra Marie CARROLL,   b. 1959, Fayetteville, North Carolina d. 7 Mar 2013, Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina (Age 54 years)
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