Dear Friends, Teaching is one of the most important – and challenging – jobs around. Teachers carry enormous responsibilities, and sometimes there are not enough hours in the classroom or in the day to accomplish all that needs to be done. During the past five years, teachers in Tennessee have navigated significant shifts in how…
The past five years have seen a tremendous amount of change to the educational landscape in Tennessee: new academic standards, a new teacher evaluation system, new interventions for struggling learners, and, most recently, new assessments. One might think that these numerous changes would be too much for teachers to handle and may even prompt them…
“You have to lay out a calendar. We just had a principals’ meeting in our district, and we looked at our calendar. We highlighted with colors the different tests and whether it’s no teaching that day. I thought, what if you give teachers this calendar and say, ‘Go find your days to teach.’ Those are…
Educators in Tennessee value assessment as an important tool for improving teaching and learning and identify managing logistics and preserving instructional time as the top assessment challenges, according to a report released today by the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE). The report, Teaching, Testing, and Time: Educator Voices on Improving Assessment in Tennessee, analyzes…
The State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) today announced the 12 finalists for the fifth annual SCORE Prize. The SCORE Prize recognizes the elementary, middle, and high schools and school districts that are leaders in student learning in Tennessee. The 2015 SCORE Prize finalists are: Elementary schools • Andersonville Elementary School, Anderson County Schools •…