Dear Friends, When great teachers grow as leaders and participate in the discussion about sustaining and improving student-focused policies and practices, they help their profession and their students. With that thought, SCORE launched the Tennessee Educator Fellowship in 2014 to provide a yearlong experience for classroom teachers to learn about, reflect on, and inform the…
This time last year, I was getting ready to fly out to Nashville from San Jose, California, and do some apartment searching, as I would be enrolling in Vanderbilt University’s Master in Public Policy program in the fall. Today, I find myself looking for a (temporary) apartment in Denver, where I will be completing a…
Now that final grades have been entered, the classroom library is back in order, and students are officially on break for the next two months, I wanted to take some time to reflect on the 2015-16 school year. Before I display my students’ end-of-year reading results, here are a few thoughts I wanted to share:…
When Reverend Jay Hartley visited his oldest son at college this past school year, he heard the kind of feedback just about any parent would want. At lunch with one of his son’s engineering professors, Rev. Hartley – parent of three past and present students of 2015 SCORE Prize finalist school Martin Luther King Jr….
Earlier this month, the Office of Research and Education Accountability (OERA) released a set of infographics on physical education and physical activity in Tennessee public schools. State law currently requires 90 minutes of physical activity per week for students in seventh through twelfthgrade. For the 2013-14 school year, the latest year that data are available, 85…