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Workforce Pell: A New Opportunity for Tennesseans to Build Skills Through Short-Term Credentials

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Collaborative Convenings

SCORE convenes local, state, and national partners to explore and drive innovative solutions to support Tennessee students. We engage community leaders, educators, policymakers, and advocates to increase the number of voices sharing student-focused perspectives.

Recent SCORE Events

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Future Forward Summit 2026

The third Future Forward Summit on April 30, 2026, brought together hundreds of leaders from education, business, and government to focus on how education-to-career pathways can better support students' transitions from school into the workforce — and toward economic independence.

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Connecting the Dots: Education, Conservation & the Future of Southern Appalachia

Building on last fall’s Connecting the Dots: The Environment’s Impact on Student Success, this virtual conversation will bring together leaders from education, conservation, and government to highlight the innovative work underway at Maryville College to establish the Alexander Institute for Conservation Leadership and the Sciences as a regional hub for conservation leadership and environmental learning.

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SCORE Institute: Making Instructional Coherence Work Through Evidence, Practice, and Scale

In a virtual SCORE Institute, district and school leaders alongside national partners explored what strong instructional coherence looks like in practice. Highlights: Study findings revealing how alignment between core instruction and intervention drives impact on early grades literacy.

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2026 State of Education in Tennessee: Moving Every Student Forward

On Dec. 3, 2025, SCORE released the 2026 State of Education in Tennessee: Moving Every Student Forward, a report outlining four priorities our state must focus on to prepare students for careers that enable economic independence.

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Partnering to Advance Effective and Responsible AI in Tennessee Education

SCORE partnered with Playlab, a tech nonprofit, to equip Tennessee educators with practical hands-on training to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into the classroom effectively and responsibly.

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SCORE Institute: Driving Economic Opportunity Through the Outcomes-Based Funding Formula

This virtual SCORE Institute on Nov. 20, 2025, explored how Tennessee can strengthen its higher education funding formula to better connect students to high-wage, high-demand career pathways.

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Connecting the Dots: The Environment’s Impact on Student Success

This gathering on Sept. 4 highlighted the connection student success and an ever-evolving environment. National experts and local speakers shared ways the environment is presenting both challenges and opportunity for students.

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SCORE Institute: How Tennessee School Districts are Using AI

Tennessee educators are already using artificial intelligence (AI), and it’s important that we learn from their pioneering efforts. This SCORE Institute on Friday, June 13, 2025, looked at findings from an AI-related survey of Tennessee district leaders conducted in spring 2025.

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Future Forward Summit

The 2025 Future Forward Summit, held on Feb. 13, 2025, convened stakeholders from across Tennessee as a next step in our state’s collective pursuit of clearer, more accessible pathways from education to work that can lead to lifelong achievement for Tennessee students.

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