This post originally appeared on the Tennessee Department of Education’s blog Classroom Chronicles. I am proud to be a public school teacher in the fastest-improving state in the nation. Not only do I teach in Tennessee’s public schools, I also have two daughters who attend a public high school in Hamilton County. My oldest daughter…
This post originally appeared on the Tennessee Department of Education’s blog Classroom Chronicles. Why am I giving this test? How can it be useful to me? For me, these questions, and the resulting answers, are integral to the process of evaluating an instructional tool or activity. I must have purpose in order to determine action….
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…
Dear Friends, How can parents know if their children are ready for the next grade? How can they tell if their students are on track to graduate ready to be successful in college or postsecondary education? For the last few years, our state has taken important strides in order to answer these questions. From setting…
Dear Friends, “Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths,” author and statesman Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe wrote. After two weeks of successful administration of the TNReady assessment, many educational stakeholders in our state feel like we are about to crest a summit after a challenging trek. TNReady is the culmination of a push to…