Dear Friends, As school starts again, I cannot help but think of Tennessee’s teachers. The teachers I know are busy creating engaging lesson plans, planning their own professional learning, and focusing intentionally on how best to help their students broaden and deepen their understanding so they are ready for the next week, the next grade,…
On August 12-13, SCORE will convene the SCORE Prize Summit: Strategies for Student Success in Nashville.The summit, which showcases effective approaches to increasing student achievement, will equip Tennessee K-12 educators at the district and school levels with promising strategies organized around the three pillars in SCORE’s theory of change: Empowering People, Insisting on High Expectations, and…
Over recent months, the Policy and Research team at SCORE has explored connections between health and education outcomes for students in Tennessee. One of the challenges associated with this work is defining what it means to be a healthy student. Although we cannot ignore the importance of physical and mental health indicators such as physical…