When I heard the great news about Tennessee science students from the Nation’s Report Card, I wondered, “What helped Tennessee achieve this incredible growth?” Commissioner McQueen pointed to Tennessee’s hands-on, science classrooms in her Classroom Chronicles post on the NAEP science growth: “When I first dug into our results, my mind immediately went to classrooms…
Caring and strategic. Those words usually don’t go together, but they both fit Troudale County’s Jim B. Satterfield Middle School. SCORE visited the school in October and observed both how the school’s vision and operation reflected their commitment to thoughtful planning and carefully recorded data, and also reflected effusive camaraderie and care. It was a…
In the weeks leading up to SCORE Prize Summit, I spent countless hours combing through the last five years of text, video, and pictures, to create social media and graphics for the summit, searching for the right things to show the story of the incredible progress Tennessee schools and districts have made. One remark stuck…
Do you remember reading a new book over the summer and diving headfirst into a new world, time period, country, and stepping into the shoes of someone with a different perspective? This summer SCORE had the opportunity to visit Camp Explore, a program led by Lipscomb University Associate Professor Jeanine Fain that aims to encourage…
Are our schools doing all they can for all students? The 2015-16 State of Education in Tennessee report and the Tennessee Department of Education strategic plan, Tennessee Succeeds, both highlight the need to educate all children, regardless of background or zip code, so they are prepared for their future. The question is how. To explore…