Extended Day Staff
Dr. Traci Young Cooper
Director
traci.cooper@richlandone.org
(B.A. – Georgetown University)
(M.A.T. – The University of South Carolina)
(Ed.S. – South Carolina State University)
(Ed.D. – South Carolina State University)
Dr. Traci Young Cooper, Director of Richland County School District One’s Office of Strategic Partnerships and Extended-Day Programs, is an experienced, secondary educator with both classroom and administrative experiences at the school, district, and state levels. In 2002, Dr. Cooper held the distinction as South Carolina’s State Teacher of the Year and represented the Palmetto State in the National Teacher of the Year competition. An ardent and zealous advocate for public education and youth development programs, Cooper served two terms as a member of the John and James Knight Foundation Community Advisory Board; a taskforce convened to support and devise inner city, afterschool programs for middle school students. Her advocacy for youth development programs lead to Cooper’s current position where she oversees the school district’s Comprehensive Remediation, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Athletic Tutorial, PROJECT ACT (a youth obesity-prevention), John and James Knight Foundation Arts-Infused, and Afterschool Childcare Extended Day Programs.
Under Cooper’s leadership, she has raised district, local, and state recognition and awareness of afterschool programs by expanding the District’s repertoire of Extended Day Programs, implementing a middle school (academic) Extended Day Summer Program, seeking and retaining afterschool grants, establishing an annual, Afterschool Convocation to celebrate afterschool programs, and sponsoring annual Lights On Afterschool events. Cooper has participated annually in the National Afterschool Alliance’s Challenge in Washington, DC.
Cooper serves on a wide-array of Executive Boards including the South Carolina Educational Television (SCETV) Endowment Board of Trustees, EdVenture Children’s Museum Board of Trustees, University of South Carolina Alumni Association Board of Governors, and the City of Columbia’s KOBAN Columbia Board of Trustees, an afterschool enrichment program.
Edna Hogg
Secretary
Ms. Hogg has worked in Richland School District One for 10 years. She began her tenure in Richland One serving in a secretary position in the superintendent's office. She then moved to the Parent and Family Services division where she worked as secretary for Dr. Sharon Earle. Prior to coming to Richland One, she served as the personal secretary to City Councilman and Attorney E.W. Cromartie.