The Region 6  Comprehensive Center (RC6) serves three states in the southeast: Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Along with dynamic educators, resources and systems, these states also experience the challenges of modern public education: a growing urban-rural divide, increasing income and educational inequality,and consistently low-performing schools.

States, school districts and individual schools have to negotiate competing ideals —being comprehensive enough to serve all but flexible enough to respond to unique needs; progressive enough to keep pace with change but consistent in meeting every student in their need; and forward-thinking enough to lead students where they will need to be while understanding of historical contexts that have brought students where they are. The kind of technical assistance and capacity-building work needed for education to thrive among these competing notions isn’t within the scope of a single State Educational Agency, school district or school.

It takes a comprehensive center with uniquely experienced and skilled staff well-versed in educational reform in southern states. It takes the Region 6 Comprehensive Center. With a team of qualified and experienced school improvement professionals, the RC6 operates on a five-year plan through 2025. The goal is to provide high-quality intensive capacity-building services to State Educational Agencies (SEAs)clients and other recipients as they identify, implement and sustain EBPs). These services address four High-Leverage Problems, or as the RC6 refers to them as —High-Leverage Opportunities:

1. Statewide Systems of Support to Low-Performing Schools
2. Support to Rural Schools
3. Equitable Student Access to Effective Teachers and Principals
4. Positive School Climates through Student Supports and Family Engagement Interventions