Education Recovery Resources

The federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) provides support for school districts to carry out plans for educational recovery from the pandemic. SCORE analyzed the ESSER plans for Tennessee districts to better understand how districts are allocating these federal resources through 2024.

This 75-minute seminar explores the SCORE analysis of ESSER plans in Tennessee and hears perspectives from leaders in Metro Nashville Public Schools and Lauderdale County Schools. Download the SCORE Institute slide deck.

The data dashboard allows searches based on district plans that were publicly available on December 31, 2021, and displays planned allocations for four focus areas: academics, student readiness, educators, and foundations.

This blog highlights three key considerations for district leaders to ensure lasting, long-term benefits for student learning from COVID-related federal funding.

This 75-minute seminar offers recommendations for investing federal resources in a way that meets immediate needs of students while also focusing on disrupting troubling long-term trends in education.

This memo offers recommendations for investing federal resources in a way that meets immediate needs of students while also focusing on disrupting troubling long-term trends.

Summer content planning guidance drawn from the experiences of Tennessee school districts in 2021.

This guide gives educators who are preparing to offer robust summer learning opportunities advice for structuring math and English language arts content that leverages high-quality instructional materials.

This 75-minute seminar covers how to plan content for summer learning camps, with presentations of national findings and learnings from three Tennessee districts.

High-dosage tutoring provides students personalized support to address their specific learning gaps and can be covered with federal education recovery resources. This guide summarizes research findings and emerging practices in three Tennessee districts.

This 75-minute seminar explores what research suggests about effective practices and features a panel discussion with leaders from three Tennessee districts that have tried high-dosage tutoring.

Educators are realizing the impact of high-dosage tutoring for education recovery following pandemic learning disruptions. Leaders at Lenoir City Schools show us how it can be done.

This 75-minute webinar look at options for sustainable recovery and reinvention designs and implementation, with a focus on high-dosage tutoring and teacher pipeline strategies.

This webinar gives an overview of Momentum Metrics, a set of indicators predictive of students’ postsecondary enrollment and success, plus a look at how two Tennessee school districts are using those metrics to boost postsecondary success for students.

New laws will enable our state to take on some of the biggest challenges facing K-12 education – addressing Tennessee’s literacy crisis, hastening learning recovery from pandemic disruptions, continuing statewide assessment of student learning while installing a year of accountability flexibility, and increasing teacher compensation.

A state report identifies gaps in broadband access across Tennessee and looks at the struggles of unserved and underserved communities.

Although the COVID-19 situation is unique, and the student needs are greater than before, research-supported strategies can foster greater effectiveness in new teachers.

Parents, students, and educators need statewide assessment information more than ever this school year, while pandemic-related disruptions call for accountability flexibility.