Funding Student Opportunity Through Tennessee’s Outcomes-Based Formula
VIEW FEATURED RESOURCEAll Resources
Teachers & Leaders | High-Quality Public Charter Schools | Data Insights | Education Finance | Postsecondary Success | Innovative Models | Education-to-Career Pathways | K-12 Success
2024 State of Education in Tennessee: Building A Brighter Future
December 5, 2023
Tennessee is a leader in piloting and scaling efforts to strengthen student success. Foundational strategies have been grounded in high expectations for educators, schools, and students – from the time students enter the classroom to the time they receive a degree or credential. This work is yielding demonstrated results for students. However, while progress has been made, it is clear more needs to be done. Tennessee’s next challenge is to expand its vision for education so that each student not only has the opportunity to succeed in school but also has the opportunity to be prepared for a career that enables economic independence.
READ MORE
Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success
Early Literacy Success For All Students: A Coherent Path Forward Webinar
September 28, 2023
This webinar covers key findings from our recent report and highlights how two Tennessee districts are working to increase instructionally coherent academic support in early grades literacy.
READ MORE
Data Insights | K-12 Success
Early Literacy Success for All Students: A Coherent Path Forward
September 26, 2023
Over the last several years, Tennessee has passed legislation and guidance around adoption, purchase, training, and use of high-quality instructional materials in early grades literacy. These efforts have been grounded in research on how students best learn to read — through a focus on systematic, explicit phonics instruction and regular opportunities to build knowledge through reading and responding to complex texts. These policies and practices are beginning to transform and strengthen instruction, with the latest statewide results from the 2022-23 school year showing that 40 percent of third graders are now reading on grade level — the highest percentage since the state raised academic standards nearly a decade ago.
READ MORE
Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success
Early Literacy Success For All Students: A Coherent Path Forward Case Studies
September 25, 2023
During the 2022-23 school year, a group of four Tennessee districts sought support to work toward the shared goal of sustainably scaling their high-dosage tutoring (HDT) programs in first- through third-grade literacy. They oriented their work around a theory of change that focused on integrating their HDT programs into their system’s long-term academic, staffing, and funding strategies.
READ MORE
Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success
K-3 Early Literacy Instructional Coherence Literacy Support Toolkit
August 30, 2023
Tennessee’s commitment to research-based early literacy policy and practice has created a foundation for districts and schools to implement instructionally coherent academic support for K-3 literacy.
READ MORE
Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success
Report Summary: Early Literacy Success For All Students
August 24, 2023
Since 2021, Tennessee has transformed literacy instruction by codifying the research on effective early literacy instruction into policy. This approach focuses on systematic, explicit phonics instruction and regular opportunities to build knowledge through reading and responding to complex texts. The legislation, investment, and resulting practice in schools is working.
READ MORE
High-Quality Public Charter Schools | Data Insights | Innovative Models | K-12 Success
National Study Highlights Student Growth In Tennessee Public Charter Schools
August 1, 2023
In 2023, there were 114 charter schools in Tennessee, serving approximately 44,000 students — 5 percent of the state’s total student population. The resources below provide key data regarding the enrollment, demographics, and performance of public charter schools in Tennessee.
READ MORE
Data Insights | Postsecondary Success | Education-to-Career Pathways
Building A Vision For Early Postsecondary Opportunities
May 22, 2023
Early postsecondary opportunities (EPSOs) are an important part of Tennessee’s strategy to ensure high school students are prepared to enroll, persist, and find success in postsecondary education, career, and life. Research consistently shows that earning a degree or credential is an important step toward achieving high-wage employment and economic independence. Tennesseans who complete postsecondary education earn, on average, one and a half times more than individuals with only a high school diploma.
READ MORE
Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success
2023 Summer Learning Refinement Guide
May 18, 2023
Over the last two years, districts across the state have implemented summer learning camps for rising first through eighth graders. While leaders and teachers did not have much time to prepare for summer 2021 camps, they were able to use the lessons learned from the first year of implementation to improve their programming for the subsequent summer.
READ MORE
Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success
2023 Third Grade Tennessee Summer School Guidance
April 27, 2023
The TN 3rd grade retention law could mean that thousands of additional 3rd grade students across the state will need to attend summer school this year to avoid being retained for the 2023-24 school year. To advance these students toward grade-level readiness we must seek to provide them accelerated instruction during summer school that provides coherent instruction aligned to grade-level ELA requirements while also addressing students’ key learning gaps in reading foundational skills.
READ MORE
Teachers & Leaders | High-Quality Public Charter Schools | Innovative Models | K-12 Success
A SPOTLIGHT ON Nashville Classical Charter School
April 3, 2023
Founded in 2013, Nashville Classical Charter School (NCCS) serves a racially, economically, and geographically diverse group of 550 students in grades K-8. Seventy percent of NCCS students are Black or LatinX, and the student body represents 26 unique zip codes from across the greater Nashville area.
READ MORE
Teachers & Leaders | High-Quality Public Charter Schools | Innovative Models | K-12 Success
A SPOTLIGHT ON Purpose Preparatory Academy Charter School
April 3, 2023
Located in North Nashville, Purpose Preparatory Academy Charter School serves 352 students in grades K-5. Nearly 95 percent of its students are Black. Purpose Prep aims to provide all students with a rigorous curriculum, high-quality instruction, and positive character development to ensure they are prepared for college.
READ MORE