Catayah Clark, Chair

Catayah’s two decades of experience have been equally divided between brick-and-mortar and virtual settings. She has dedicated the past ten years to virtual school and program leadership, growth, and transformation, having served as the instructional leader in South Carolina’s state-level virtual school program and as a high school principal in two statewide virtual charter schools. In K-12 virtual settings, her leadership strategies resulted in improvements in student academic performance, decreases in achievement gaps amongst student groups, and improved school report card ratings. Prior to shifting to virtual education, she served as a high school English teacher, a HSTW SLC Leadership Team member, a cooperating teacher for college practicum students and student teaching interns, and a middle school technology and learning coach. Catayah currently serves on the National Standards for Quality Online Learning (NSQ) Leadership Team and the University of South Carolina Principal’s Advisory Board. She is also a board member for the South Carolina Career Development Association.  Catayah earned a bachelor’s degree in English and master’s degrees in secondary education and education administration from the University of South Carolina. She is also certified as a secondary principal and as an English teacher in South Carolina.