Across Tennessee, school districts are resuming classes in a wide range of formats that respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most responsive district plans are prioritizing learning and safety by offering parents more than one option for meeting the needs of their students and families.
Honesty is the best policy, especially when we are talking about student achievement. In separate reports, Harvard University researchers and the nonprofit organization Achieve, have identified Tennessee as a national leader in erasing the gap between measures of student proficiency on statewide assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Eleven years ago, such…
So often in my career as an educator, I have benefited from getting another perspective. Whether it was feedback about how to improve instruction from a principal or another colleague, a parent’s insight about the needs of their child, or an opportunity to collaborate with another director of schools, I always found the additional information…
I recently discovered that one of my favorite high school teachers is retiring. While I regret that she will no longer be a wonderful influence on future generations, I recognize that as an educator who worked persistently to help her students as best she could, she has earned her retirement. She had a sign up…
I had just started the eighth grade at my new middle school in a new school district. I was excited to start Algebra I; however, my new counselor had different plans for me. She placed me in Pre-Algebra because my report card did not state that I had taken the prerequisite class to Algebra I….