NASHVILLE—The Tennessee Department of Education today announced a new package of financial incentives to help recruit and retain the most effective teachers to work in the state’s lowest performing schools.
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Department of Education has pledged nearly $4 million in Race to the Top funds to pay for eight leadership development programs, which will impact future school leaders in more than 20 districts across the state.
The following is a statement from Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman on the growth of the Expect More, Achieve More Coalition, “a statewide alliance of business, education and community organizations … whose goal is to build engagement, support, and awareness of Tennessee’s efforts to raise the bar in the classroom, through the Common Core State Standards.”
Highlights include increased participation and strong job satisfaction numbers
NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam announced today that after two years of rapid change, Tennessee educators reported improved work environments in a broad range of categories, all shown to correlate to increased student achievement.
The results from the second statewide TELL (Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning) Tennessee Survey are now available, and more than 61,000 educators, or 82 percent, in the state responded, a five percentage point increase from 2011. Across Tennessee, 1,627 of 1,774 schools, or 91 percent, reached a response rate of at least 50 percent.
“We know that when educators feel good about the culture and climate of their school, that leads to increased results for our students,” Haslam said. “We want to hear from our teachers, and I am grateful that so many of them took the time to respond.”
NASHVILLE—The Tennessee Department of Education, in partnership with Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), is recruiting middle and high school teachers to enroll in a grant-funded graduate course, Teaching Personal Finance. All teachers accepted to the course at MTSU will receive three hours of graduate credit fully paid and an $850 stipend upon successful completion.
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Department of Education is enlisting the help of more than 700 teachers to help their peers navigate the transition to the Common Core State Standards.
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Department of Education is pleased to announce that Lawrence Wang and Palmer Gleason, both from Knoxville, have been selected as the two most promising young scientific le
Statewide Summer Camps Help Teachers Design Energy Conservation Education Programs
NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s Office of Energy Programs announced today that applications are now available for the 2013 Energy Camps. The four-day educational sessions are free and provide K-12 teachers with the information and resources needed to teach the science of energy and energy conservation in the classroom, while helping students to become leaders in their schools and communities.
Following the success of Tennessee’s first Common Core Leadership Council, the department of education today announces a new group of principals, supervisors and superintendents who will give distr
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