Growing Irreplaceables Pt.2: Develop Successful School Leaders to Keep the...
I’m blessed to work at the Soulsville Charter School. Our parents are fantastic, our facilities first rate and our student’s motivated and hard working. Yet it would all fall apart were it not for...
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Data Doesn’t Lie: TN Charters Are The Real Deal
I’m proud to teach high school math at The Soulsville Charter School. Every day I come to work confident that my students are receiving the best education that I and my colleagues can give them. I see...
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Just the Facts: Charter High School Performance in Memphis
My school has a strong data driven culture. We use data not just to identify grade level or class wide trends, but trends with individual students. Because it’s not enough for me to know that the...
View ArticleMaking the Grade: 2014 Memphis Charter High School Performance
The 2014 school-level TVAAS data has been out for a few weeks now and since we did an analysis earlier this summer on local charter performance using 2013 data, I thought it only appropriate that I run...
View ArticleEdLinks: 100 Percent College Acceptance, Opt Out Alternative
Your edlinks from this past week, with summary headlines (new!) Local 1. SCS $125 million budget cut. Shelby County approves a $974 million dollar budget with a $125 million cut in spending. The cuts...
View ArticleFighting the Summer Brain Drain
This is an updated version of a post originally seen on the Huffington Post on July 23rd, 2015. Growing up, I experienced one of public education’s intractable problems between June and September —...
View ArticleLocal Schools Nominated for SCORE Prize
This past week SCORE announced its nominees for the annual SCORE prize, given to schools who are, in SCORE’s words, “rising to the challenge of preparing each student for success in the next grade and...
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