Connecting Education & Opportunity: A Framework for Credential Impact in Tennessee
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Momentum Metrics For Greater Postsecondary Success
May 25, 2022
An overview of Education Strategy Group’s Momentum Metrics, a set of indicators predictive of students’ postsecondary enrollment and success, plus a look at how two Tennessee school districts are using those metrics to boost postsecondary success for students.
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Postsecondary Success Toolkit
May 25, 2022
This webinar gives an overview of Momentum Metrics, a set of indicators predictive of students’ postsecondary enrollment and success, plus a look at how two Tennessee school districts are using those metrics to boost postsecondary success for students.
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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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