2026 State of Education in Tennessee: Moving Every Student Forward
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Teacher Evaluation: Driving Improved Instruction and Student Achievement
July 7, 2024
Tennessee’s commitment to annual teacher evaluations and providing educators with high-quality feedback has led to more effective instruction and significant advances in student achievement. Tennessee should preserve its evaluation system and aim to bolster and strengthen it so that educators continue receiving high-quality feedback that will, in turn, benefit all students.
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Strategic School Staffing: Tennessee’s Opportunity To Sustain And Elevate Great Teaching
May 8, 2024
Access to highly effective teachers is essential for student achievement. However, growing evidence suggests students have unreliable and inequitable access to effective educators, with many school districts reporting high levels of teacher vacancies. This series examines the challenges facing Tennessee’s educator labor market and highlights innovative practices to strengthen it.
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Rural District Leader Perceptions Of The Educator Labor Market
April 29, 2024
Access to highly effective teachers is essential for student achievement. However, growing evidence suggests students have unreliable and inequitable access to effective educators, with many school districts reporting high levels of teacher vacancies. This paper offers perspectives on the topic from rural district leaders across Tennessee.
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Strengthening The Educator Labor Market: A Look At Tennessee's Data Webinar
February 26, 2024
Access to highly effective teachers is essential for student achievement. However, growing evidence suggests students have unreliable and inequitable access to effective educators, with many school districts reporting high levels of teacher vacancies. SCORE partnered with 15 school districts and the Tennessee Education Research Alliance (TERA) to understand the broader trends behind educator labor market challenges. This webinar highlights key findings from TERA’s research along with insights from district leaders and experts from across the state.
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Series: Strengthening the Educator Labor Market
February 26, 2024
Access to highly effective teachers is essential for student achievement. However, growing evidence suggests students have unreliable and inequitable access to effective educators, with many school districts reporting high levels of teacher vacancies. These resources offer an understanding of the broader trends behind educator labor market challenges and possible solutions to address them.
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Understanding The Educator Labor Market: A Look At Tennessee’s Data
February 26, 2024
Access to highly effective teachers is essential for student achievement. However, growing evidence suggests students have unreliable and inequitable access to effective educators, with many school districts reporting high levels of teacher vacancies. SCORE partnered with 15 school districts and the Tennessee Education Research Alliance (TERA) to understand the broader trends behind educator labor market challenges.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Supporting District Leaders To Leverage TISA For Student Success
May 18, 2023
Tennessee modernized its education finance system to allocate funding for students’ unique learning needs through passage of the Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) Act during the 2022 legislative session. This legislative reform reflects Tennessee’s longstanding commitment to improving education outcomes. Building upon the prior decade’s implementation of high academic standards, rigorous annual assessments, and a multiple-measure accountability system, TISA advances our collective belief that all students should have equitable opportunity to succeed in school, postsecondary education, and life.
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