stake holder responsibilities
P-16 Councils and Higher
Education Institutions
1. Create a culture of high expectations among your teacher
training and school leadership programs. Individuals entering
these programs must be of the highest quality and the programs
themselves must ensure they are producing educators who believe
every child can succeed.
2. Partner with SCORE to launch a task force to identify how
the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship can be used most
effectively to increase access to and completion of postsecondary
degrees. As part of this task force, consider innovative programs
that increase high school students’ participation in postsecondary
coursework (e.g., dual credit, dual enrollment, Advanced
Placement, International Baccalaureate, and early college high
schools).
3. Building on the Tennessee Teacher Quality Initiative, partner
with SCORE to launch a task force to assist higher education
institutions in recruiting high quality candidates into teaching.
As part of this task force, develop common recruitment tools and
update the Tennessee Teacher Employment Resources website.
Members of the task force would include representatives from
the Tennessee Department of Education, Tennessee Education
Association, Tennessee Teacher Quality Initiative, higher
education institutions, Teach Tennessee, Teach for America, The
New Teacher Project, and other key stakeholders.
4. Create a performance measure for teacher candidates that includes
assessments of content knowledge, classroom management skills,
and other teaching skills. This measure should build on the work
of the Tennessee Teacher Quality Initiative and be connected to
the new statewide teacher effectiveness measure.
5. Work with the SCORE Statewide Leadership Initiative to help
both higher education and district school leadership programs in
effectively implementing the State Board of Education’s Learning
Centered Leadership Policy by creating a pool of shared resources
(e.g., a common curriculum, online professional development
tools, and a list of top instructors on specific topics who are willing
to teach across the state) and providing opportunities for school
leadership programs from across the state to share best practices
with one another.
6. Create minimum quality standards for dual credit and dual
enrollment courses.
7. Participate in a task force to revise the existing Teacher Training
Program Report Card and to create a School Leadership
Program report card.
8. Update metrics being tracked in the Annual Joint Report on PreKindergarten through Higher Education in Tennessee to reflect
the metrics developed by Tennessee’s College-and-Career Ready
Policy Institute, including incorporating the changes to the
CCRPI metrics recommended on page 10 of this report.
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Professional Education Associations
1. Create a culture of high expectations among your members that
every child can succeed.
2. The Tennessee School Boards Association, Tennessee Organization
of School Superintendents, and Niswonger Foundation should
partner with SCORE’s Statewide Leadership Initiative to enhance
and expand the Prospective Superintendents Academy.
3. The Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents and
Association of Independent and Municipal Schools should
continue to support the recently launched new superintendent
mentorship program.
4. The Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents and
the Tennessee Department of Education should partner with
SCORE’s Statewide Leadership Initiative to ensure existing
professional development opportunities for superintendents are
sufficiently focused on increasing student achievement rather than
operational issues. For example, ensure superintendents in districts
with high achievement gains have the opportunity to share best
practices with their colleagues and that all superintendents receive
professional development around how to effectively conduct
principal evaluations and connect them to performance contracts.
5. The Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents, Tennessee
Principals Association, Tennessee Education Association, and
Tennessee School Boards Association should partner with SCORE’s
Statewide Leadership Initiative to enhance online professional
development opportunities for superintendents, principals, and
school board members.
6. The Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents,
Association of Independent and Municipal School Districts, and
Tennessee School Boards Association should partner with SCORE’s
Statewide Leadership Initiative to create several examples of tools
for evaluating superintendents.
7. The Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents, Tennessee
School Boards Association, Tennessee Principals Association, and
Tennessee Education Association should annually recognize the topperforming superintendents, principals, and teachers in the state based
on objective criteria (e.g., new teacher effectiveness measure, student
achievement data, value-added scores, graduation rates).
8. The Tennessee Education Association should partner with
SCORE to develop, pilot, and roll out a statewide teacher
effectiveness measure based on multiple measures including
student achievement gains and potentially principal evaluations,
peer review, and parent and student surveys. Ensure a significant
component of this measure is based on a combination of student
achievement and student achievement gains for as many teachers
as possible.
9. The Tennessee VGV6F