About the Carolina First Center for Excellence

The Carolina First Center for Excellence (CFCE) is a program of the Greenville Chamber Foundation, formed in 2001 to bring Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) strategies to Greenville County classrooms. CFCE has changed the way teachers teach and students learn by giving students a part in the creation of their learning process.

As a result of this change in the student's role in the classroom, they have become responsible for their learning, better critical thinkers and problem solvers, and more motivated in and out of the classroom. CFCE students are given the skills to prepare them not only for the next test, semester, grade, but for the next step beyond: life. CQI strategies foster high integrity, high performance, and ethical behavior, which is why employees at GE, Bosch, Michelin, Caterpillar and many other highly successful businesses manage their organizations and train their employees to use the same principles as CFCE teaches in schools.

The corporate world has understood the importance of quality learning for over a decade, and now CFCE is bringing that same training to teachers, classrooms, and students across Greenville County. The Quality tools and teachings of CFCE apply to the superintendent on down to kindergarten students. Principals, teachers and students all take responsibility for their learning and actions, which all translates to better performance, academic achievement, classroom behavior, motivation, and problem solving skills.

CFCE is guided by the idea that "people can always improve when they understand the measures by which they are being judged."

For more information contact Michele Brinn at 864-239-3727; or Lindsay Smith at 864-239-3743.

Click on the links to the left to learn more about CFCE.