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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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Tennessee Education Primer

June 9, 2022

Tennesseans began taking bold steps to transform public education to better prepare students for success in 2007. Tennessee must maintain that commitment to innovation and continue to put student needs first in order to prepare every student for success from the day they start school to the day they start a career.

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Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success

SCORE Institute: Teaching & Tutoring Strategies That Endure

April 27, 2022

A look at sustainable recovery/reinvention designs and implementation, with a focus on high-dosage tutoring and teacher pipeline strategies. Featured speakers include David Rosenberg of Education Resource Strategies; Joey Hassell, superintendent of Haywood County Schools; and Jerry Boyd, superintendent of Washington County Schools.

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Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success

Teacher Pipeline Toolkit

April 27, 2022

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.

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Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success

2023 3rd Grade TN Summer School Guidance

April 27, 2022

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 | K-12 Success

Summer Learning Toolkit

April 27, 2022

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

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Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success

Maximizing Summer Learning

April 7, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruption to all levels of education that could impact student outcomes for months and possibly years ahead. The SCORE series of COVID-19 Impact Memos analyzes challenges, examines emerging innovations and research-supported practices, and highlights student-centered approaches for educators to consider.

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Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success

Summer School Planning Guide

April 1, 2022

The Tennessee Learning Loss Remediation and Student Acceleration Act requires districts to provide specific summer learning opportunities to address learning loss. To maximize the effectiveness of these summer learning opportunities, it is vital to invest time in planning and to align key decisions to research-based recommendations. EdResearch for Recovery’s recent report, Advancing Student Learning and Opportunity Through Voluntary Academic Summer Learning Programs, found that program duration, attendance, use of time, and quality of instruction appear to be key factors in programs that show stronger academic benefits.

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