Funding Student Opportunity Through Tennessee’s Outcomes-Based Formula
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Teachers & Leaders | Education Finance
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Teachers & Leaders | High-Quality Public Charter Schools | Data Insights | Education Finance | Postsecondary Success | Innovative Models | Education-to-Career Pathways | K-12 Success
2023 State of Education in Tennessee
December 6, 2022
When it comes to taking big steps to improve outcomes for students, Tennessee leads. For more than a decade, the state has taken bold actions and demonstrated great success in improving education. This has led to students having more opportunities for their future, businesses having a more skilled workforce, and, ultimately, more Tennesseans experiencing economic independence statewide.
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Teachers & Leaders | Innovative Models
Innovative School Models Planning Guide
August 16, 2022
This planning guide is aligned to the Tennessee Department of Education’s Innovative School Models (ISM) guidance document and addresses each of the application components. It also contains links to national examples and resources to further support your thinking around how you will innovate in your middle and high schools. By reflecting on the questions and considerations in this document, your team should be better prepared to submit a strong application.
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Teachers & Leaders | Innovative Models | Education-to-Career Pathways | K-12 Success
Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, Case Study
August 16, 2022
The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) started an Early Technical College (ETC) at the Clarksville campus of TCAT-Dickson four years ago. At the time, the TCAT campus was primarily serving adult learners and its facilities were underutilized during a large portion of the day. The ETC provides students with personalized, hands-on learning opportunities that can lead to the attainment of both college credit and a high school diploma, technical and professional skill development, and industry certifications.
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Teachers & Leaders | Innovative Models | Education-to-Career Pathways | K-12 Success
Hamilton County Schools, Case Study
August 16, 2022
In partnership with Chattanooga State Community College, Hamilton County Schools (HCS) began developing a microcollege last school year as part of their effort to ensure equitable learning opportunities for all students. Previously, the district’s equity audits revealed that students’ access to early postsecondary opportunities (EPSOs) varied greatly across high schools.
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Teachers & Leaders | Innovative Models | K-12 Success
Bristol Tennessee City Schools, Case Study
August 16, 2022
For years, Bristol Tennessee City Schools (BTCS) had been considering how it could adjust the support it was providing to the approximately 10 percent of its high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors who persistently struggle to succeed academically, attend school consistently, and, ultimately, graduate on time.
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Teachers & Leaders | Innovative Models | Education-to-Career Pathways | K-12 Success
Alcoa City Schools, Case Study
August 16, 2022
Alcoa City Schools set a goal of continuing to increase their Ready Graduate rate from 78 percent to 80 percent and began to consider how they could use the High School Innovation Grant to make progress in this area. They looked at their data to ask where they had weak spots in their subgroups around their Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathways and found there was a gap in health sciences.
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Teachers & Leaders | Innovative Models | Education-to-Career Pathways | K-12 Success
Jackson-Madison County School System, Case Study
August 16, 2022
Jackson-Madison County School System (JMCSS) envisioned a secondary school landscape in their district where each of its seven high schools and the district Workforce Development Center would house at least one of twelve Innovation Impact Institutes focused on a different high-demand occupation that any student in the district could access as they identify career fields of interest to them.
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