A group of 150 local teachers learned the latest teaching techniques to improve their students’ performance and boost the state’s effort to comply with Common Core education standards. The Jennings and Rebecca Jones Foundation and Middle Tennessee State University partnered to hold a conference June 4-5 at MTSU entitled “Critical Thinking with the Common Core.” The conference included a full day of lectures and training June 5 at the MTSU College of Education Building. Attendees consist of a select group of K-5 teachers in the Rutherford County and Murfreesboro City school districts.
A group of 150 local teachers will learn the latest teaching techniques to improve their students’ performance and boost the state’s effort to comply with Common Core education standards. (Watch a video from the conference below) http://youtu.be/oa9X0B3EIFI The Jennings and Rebecca Jones Foundation and Middle Tennessee State University have partnered…
The spring 2014 MTSU Poll found that Tennesseans’ give their schools “Cs,” haven’t heard of Common Core, are uncertain about school vouchers, trust their teachers, and have mixed feelings about the use of standardized testing. Data for the statewide poll was collected Jan. 23–26, with results having an error margin…
MANCHESTER, TENN. — With multiple MTSU degrees mostly in the science fields but taking a new position as an instructional coach at Nashville Collegiate Academy, Chatoria Franklin “had light bulbs going off” Thursday, June 14, during the Project IMPACT summer conference at Coffee County Middle School. “Oh, my God. Amazing,” said Franklin, a…
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