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  • Statewide Survey Shows Tennesseans Support Higher Academic Standards

    The State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) released today the results from a statewide public opinion poll focused on voter perceptions of Tennessee’s work to raise academic expectations through the Common Core State Standards. The survey, commissioned by SCORE and conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner Research, was conducted on May 6-7…

  • Thoughts from the World Innovation Summit for Education

    I was privileged last month to attend the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha, Qatar. The Learners’ Voice program brought together 30 young people from 24 countries. There were two primary takeaways I had from the WISE Summit, first with respect to the love of learning and the second regarding the role of…

  • Cicely Woodard

    Cicely manages the Tennessee Educator Fellowship, a program that allows teachers in Tennessee to have a greater impact on education policy and advocacy across the state. After earning a Bachelor’s of Mathematical Sciences from the University of Memphis and a Master’s of Education from Vanderbilt University, she began her education career in 2003 as an…

  • Draw the line: working hard vs. working effectively

    Our jobs as educators can get overwhelming at times. Of course if you have been in education for more than 15 minutes, this isn’t a revelation. Do we actually stop and think about our attempt to manage and incorporate the constant inflow of new initiatives, policies, technology, training, and websites all offering positive ways to…

  • Expect More, Achieve More Coalition Launched

    http://youtu.be/oKIu77lE5kM More than 100 business, community, and education organizations across Tennessee today launched an effort to support high academic standards in K-12 public education. This group, the Expect More, Achieve More coalition, seeks to build statewide and local awareness of Tennessee’s ongoing effort to raise expectations in the classroom through the Common Core State Standards….

  • Drew Jacobs

    Drew directs SCORE’s research and data work including field research efforts, the annual SCORE Prize, data requests, best practice sharing initiatives, and collaboration with other researchers in the state and nation. Before joining SCORE, Drew was the data and policy analyst at The Education Trust—Midwest, working on a wide variety of topics including educator evaluation…

  • Digital Learning Day Helps Teachers Integrate Lessons, Technology

    Loudon County Schools was the proud recipient of the SCORE Rise to the Challenge competition for best practices in the classroom. We highlighted Digital Learning Day, which took place February 6.

  • The solution for gap closure?

    When the term gap closure first came on the radar in a big way this summer, responses ranged from: “Show me the data” to “Gap is closing…where will I buy my jeans?” It was a semi-foreign concept to many educators because overall achievement and growth have always been our aim—not who is out performing whom…

  • Stakeholder data use is dependent on stakeholder capacity to access and use data

    Those who remember the View-Master from childhood will recall the dazzling images they cast before the user’s eyes. While the image the View-Master presents is vivid and entertaining, it lacks the motion, sound, and character development of a movie. Movies progress over time, and deliver the viewer a complete, 2-hour picture of a series of…

  • How will I know if my child is ready for college?

    This blog post originally appeared in the Data Quality Campaign’s blog, The Flashlight.   “How will I know if my child is ready for college?” This is a question I heard a few weeks ago from a parent in a rural part of Tennessee. It is a question that I hear quite often when I…

  • Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships, Oh my!!!

    Teachers cannot do it alone. As an administrator, I know the importance of supporting teachers in my building. By helping them gain the skills they need to increase rigor for their students, add relevance to the subject they teach, and build relationships with students, I am helping raise achievement at Covington High School.

  • Bridging our educational gaps

    Back in August, I loaded up a truck in Nashville and headed north to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Here at the University of Michigan, I have just completed my first semester as a doctoral student examining the connections between public policy and higher education. Although the hot days of summer in Nashville seem like a distant…

  • Dispatch from the Epicenter of Ed Reform: The Grad Student Experience

    It’s a pretty ideal time to be a graduate student in education policy in Nashville. When I first arrived at Peabody for my Master’s in Public Policy degree, I was fresh out of teaching in a Hong Kong classroom. It was Peabody that had brought me back to my hometown of Nashville, but I didn’t…

  • Three Approaches to Attracting and Retaining “Irreplaceable” Teachers

    On November 12, 2012, I had the privilege to serve on a panel to discuss the importance of attracting and retaining “irreplaceable” teachers. Before the panel discussion started, Tim Daly, President of The New Teacher Project (TNTP), introduced to the group a 30-minute summary of his recent report on the “The Irreplaceables.” Tim explained to…

  • ‘Close reading’ standard enriches students’ understanding

    As a lover of literature, I revel in the discoveries you can make by reading texts closely. Whether it’s a news story, a set of technical instructions, or a poem by Robert Frost, paying close attention to what the words actually say is the only way to understand the complexities of the message. And from…

  • Evaluation from the learner perspective

    I had an epiphany in my role as an instructional leader. Like most good ideas I implement, it seems simple and logical in hindsight. And also like most good ideas I implement, it did not originate with me. In February, I did what all good parents in education do and used my 3rd grade twins…

  • Leading Tennessee to the Top: 2013 Leadership Summit

    We all know that there are dozens of factors that significantly impact student success. When we do just a bit of digging, we know that when it comes to in-school factors, effective teaching and leadership take the top spots in terms of influence on student outcomes. Whether in an organization, a church, a family, or…

  • 2013 Rise to the Challenge Competition

    In February, SCORE released the 2012-13 State of Education in Tennessee report, which includes an overview of the academic gains the state has made over the past year, an update on the work that has contributed to the improvements students have experienced, extensive state and district data, and education priorities for Tennessee in 2013 that…

  • Standardized Testing Gives Teachers Important Insight

    We’re at the time of year where test data are starting to come out. The targeted interventions are over, the posters about remembering to eat and sleep are off the walls as the school goes through its preparations for next year, and everyone is a lot calmer. Summer is the perfect time to de-stress from…

  • Teaching as a top career

    When I decided to become a special education teacher, I could not help but sense others’ disappointment: “A teacher? But you’re so smart!” They didn’t sway my decision, but I can’t count how many times I’ve been advised to pursue other fields, even from teachers themselves. While it seems strange that so many would disapprove,…