(Nashville) – The Expect More, Achieve More Coalition announced today that more than 300 organizations in Tennessee have now joined as coalition members. The coalition is a statewide alliance of business, community, and education organizations supporting high academic standards in public education. The Coalition’s goal is to build statewide and local engagement, support, and awareness…
On October 28, Senator Bill Frist, Chairman of SCORE, will host the third annual SCORE Prize event at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville. Policy-makers, teachers, students, and community members will gather to recognize the outstanding work by public schools and districts in Tennessee to increase student achievement.
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is featured in a new video that explains the importance of Tennessee’s Common Core State Standards. Frist, founder and chairman of the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE), says in the two-minute video that higher standards in school provide a foundation for success throughout life. “Quite simply, the…
74. That was the grade on my first college essay. I expected high standards from my Humanities professor (a.k.a., the infamous philosophy professor with a PhD from Harvard), but I graduated high school with all A’s in my English classes, including two AP subjects! I was mortified.
(Nashville) – The State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) today announced the 12 finalists for the third annual SCORE Prize. The prize recognizes the Tennessee elementary, middle, and high schools and school district that have most dramatically improved student achievement. The 2013 SCORE Prize finalists are: Elementary McPheeter’s Bend Elementary, Hawkins County Schools. Mt. Carmel…
“These kids have learned so much,” I think as I watch my seventh-graders present their STEM projects to external evaluators. Reporters, engineers, and scientists all approach me in awe of these students’ redesigned household items. Ritz crackers housed in Oreo-style trays, nail clippers enhanced with adhesive sandpaper strips, deodorant applicators with small loops for improved…
SCORE is having a competition for students to win a $500 college scholarship! Last year, I won SCORE’s first Students Rise to the Challenge Competition by sharing how much difference a teacher can make in preparing students, like me, for the real world. I am excited to announce that SCORE is launching its second annual…
I have watched and listened with interest to an increasingly noisy conversation seemingly between non-traditional education reformers who are accused of trying to upset the public education system and traditional educators who are opposed to changing the status quo. I don’t often hear, however, the voice of the education insider who sees the need for…
In Tennessee we have more than 35 language groups who come from more than 50 countries. Tennessee public schools have nearly 23,000 English Language Learners. For these students, English is not the first language they learned to speak. How is our state ensuring that they will have an equal chance at receiving a great education?
The Commercial Appeal, Friday, July 26, 2013. Reprinted by permission. In the business world, a one-size-fits-all approach to human capital decisions is rarely successful. Professionals vary in their level of effectiveness, and decisions around promotion, pay and continuing education should reflect these differences. Over the last few years, Tennessee has taken significant steps to ensure…
They parked on curbs and grass islands. SUVs and minivans clogged bus lanes. They were teachers, administrators, librarians, and professors, and they had come to Freedom Middle School in Franklin on a midsummer’s day to participate in TNCore training.
I want to be a lawyer. “Law school” has been the cornerstone of my post-graduation plans since middle school. When I told classmates and family friends that I would be spending my summer interning at an education advocacy and research organization, one response came all too frequently: “Hm, interesting. Why education?”
I’m not pretty. I’m not popular. I’m not best dressed. But these were the things I thought about when I was younger. I was not much concerned about my school lessons or my grades in those days. Did I flunk every test? Of course not. I was average. Simply average. My life had been no…
Loudon County Schools was the proud recipient of the SCORE Rise to the Challenge competition for best practices in the classroom. We highlighted Digital Learning Day, which took place February 6.
As I think of principal placement, I often think of the sports teams I have played on in the past. Everyone has a specific role to play in order for the team to achieve the vision of success. As educators, we are responsible for a role that is more critical than any other: to ensure…
Drew directs SCORE’s research and data work including field research efforts, the annual SCORE Prize, data requests, best practice sharing initiatives, and collaboration with other researchers in the state and nation. Before joining SCORE, Drew was the data and policy analyst at The Education Trust—Midwest, working on a wide variety of topics including educator evaluation…
Alyssa directs SCORE’s policy work including the development of SCORE’s statewide policy agenda, communicating with diverse stakeholders on relevant policy developments both locally and nationally, leading the development of SCORE’s annual State of Education in Tennessee report, and collaborating with other policy experts throughout the state and around the nation to better inform SCORE’s work…
As an educator for more than 30 years, I know that it’s almost impossible to get better without first honestly analyzing where you currently stand. Whether I was in the classroom, at the central office or in urban or rural communities, self-reflection was critical to helping me grow as a professional and – more importantly…
Cicely manages the Tennessee Educator Fellowship, a program that allows teachers in Tennessee to have a greater impact on education policy and advocacy across the state. After earning a Bachelor’s of Mathematical Sciences from the University of Memphis and a Master’s of Education from Vanderbilt University, she began her education career in 2003 as an…
As a GEAR UP TN Site Coordinator, I have the benefit of working closely with the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) to help students in Anderson County become college and career ready. One of the most exciting tools to help accomplish this goal thus far has been CollegeforTN.org, the state’s web-based career and educational planning…