December 5, 2018
In football, there are rankings. In classrooms, report cards. And now, in Tennessee, there’s a new website that shows you how your school and district stack are performing. Have you seen it?
Released today, the new state report card looks at six different categories of student success that are indicators of how Tennessee’s kids are performing: academic achievement, student academic growth, chronically out of school, progress on English language proficiency, ready graduate, and graduation rate.
Each school receives a ranking from 0-4 based on achievement and growth in these six categories. Ratings are based on either how well the school is doing on each particular metric or on how much the school has improved in a metric over the past year.
We wanted to share some thoughts from our President and CEO Adam Lister on today’s release:
“If we share a common goal of increased student success, we must also champion accountability and know how and where each school is tackling the critical work of student achievement and growth. Tennessee’s new and improved State Report Card is intended to be a useful tool for engaging parents, teachers, community leaders, and all those who work to improve every classroom, every grade, and every school for every student. While politics resulted in this year’s Report Card leaving out valuable overall scores for every school, we hope this Report Card will further energize conversations around the dinner table about how each of us can support and improve public education.”
Take a look at your state’s report card and see how your school is doing. We encourage you to use this dashboard of information as a jumping off point to conversations with your friends, community leaders, and elected officials on how your student’s school can continue to improve. As always, we’d love to help facilitate those conversations! Drop us a note and an invitation – we’re big fans of continuing conversations to help make sure every student in Tennessee has an opportunity to succeed.