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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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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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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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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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Summer Learning Toolkit
April 27, 2022
Summer content planning guidance drawn from the experiences of Tennessee school districts in 2021.
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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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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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SCORE Institute Maximizing Summer Learning
March 29, 2022
As Tennessee educators prepare for year two of summer learning as part of the pandemic recovery response, we look at sustainable practices to support students to greater achievement during and after the pandemic. Session includes: implementation and effectiveness of voluntary summer learning programs, plus insights from leaders at three Tennessee school districts who share how they're planning to make the most of summer learning camps for students.
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Modernizing Education Funding To Support Every Tennessee Student
January 20, 2022
Over the last decade, Tennessee leaders have implemented strategies grounded in the conviction that setting high expectations for all students, measuring progress, and holding adults accountable can improve student success. Indeed, Tennessee has made great strides in student achievement, rising from one of the lowest-performing states on the National Assessment of Educational Progress to reach the national average in less than a decade, with high standards, assessment, and accountability.
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2022 State of Education in Tennessee
December 6, 2021
Through 2020 and 2021, Tennessee students, families, and educators have faced a public health crisis that has impacted our education system from top to bottom. Educators have provided instruction to students in person, in a hybrid format, and virtually – with limited resources and training at their disposal when the pandemic began. Administrators have faced staffing and scheduling challenges as the coronavirus pandemic spread statewide, requiring many students and educators to quarantine to recover from or to reduce transmission of the disease and miss valuable classroom time as a result. Whether they are in K-12 or postsecondary settings, students have experienced a dramatic shift in their daily lives.
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Funding For Learning: An Analysis Of K-12 Education Finance In Tennessee
October 21, 2021
Does Tennessee spend enough to educate children? Two thirds of voters and about seven out of ten parents in Tennessee think the state’s public schools do not receive enough funding, according to a September 2021 poll commissioned by the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE). This view is widely held despite state budgeting practices under three governors that since 2010 increased the state appropriations for K-12 education by 20 percent when adjusted for inflation.
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A Student Perspective On Chronic Absenteeism Focus Group Learnings And Recommendations
July 19, 2021
In March 2020, COVID-19 was declared a national emergency in America, and millions of lives changed forever. Students and teachers across the nation experienced the largest and most significant disruption to education systems in history. One of the many challenges schools faced over the last year was simply keeping students engaged with learning. In many schools, chronic absenteeism rates rose significantly — especially among historically marginalized students.
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