Tennessee Succeeds:
Tennessee's educational initiatives focus on improving early literacy and creating trauma-informed schools to support student success. Programs like "Read to be Ready" aim to enhance reading proficiency, with a goal of 75% of third graders reading proficiently by 2025. The state offers summer camp grants, coaching networks, and professional development resources to support teachers and students in literacy development. Investments in summer programs target low-income students to mitigate summer learning loss and foster a love for reading.
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Tennessee Succeeds: Early Literacy and Trauma-Informed Schools Dr. Candice McQueen Commissioner of Education
Weve Closed the Gap Between NAEP & TNReady 3
Our Policy Foundation Makes This Possible 4
Why Read to be Ready? Tennessee has made tremendous gains in student performance over the past several years except in reading. Only 1 out of 3 third graders are reading proficiently across the state. Students that are reading proficiently in third grade are 4x more likely to graduate from high school. Read to be Ready launched in 2015 with the goal of ensuring that 75% of third graders are reading proficiently by 2025. 6
What is Read to be Ready? A multi-faceted statewide campaign, including: Summer Camp Grant for grades 1-3 students that are not reading proficiently Coaching Network for K-3 teachers Content development and professional learning resources: Teaching Literacy in Tennessee for K-3 Unit Starters for K-3 connected to Science and Social Studies Professional Learning Packages for Elementary ELA Revised literacy expectations and support for Education Preparation Providers (EPPs) that prepare new teachers New pilot programs to support students in Pre-K and birth to age 3 programs 7
Summer Grants for Camp Through support and partnership with Dollar General Literacy Foundation and TN Department of Human Services over $30 million has been invested in summer camps. The purpose of the grants is to fund summer camp programs that target low-income students who we know experience the greatest summer learning loss. The goal is to develop a student s love for reading over the summer months by providing them with access to a multitude of high-quality books at different levels and for different interests. 9
2018 Camps Successes For the third year in a row, students who participated in the program showed statistically significant gains in: reading comprehension accuracy skills motivation to read 7,700+ students participated in 2018 in over 250 summer camps in 116 districts an increase from 6,300 students in 2017 193,000+ high-quality books were provided to students about 25 books each 2,200+ teachers were trained to lead summer camps 10
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
What are ACEs? Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) is the chronic childhood trauma that can disrupt a child s brain-building process. ACEs are toxic to brain development and can compromise the brain s structural integrity. Tennessee is committed to a statewide effort to promote a culture of change in early childhood that helps children build strong brains. 12
Goals of ACEs Initiative Increase the potential that every child born in TN has the opportunity to lead a healthy, productive life. Raise public knowledge about ACEs. Impact public policy in TN to support prevention of ACEs. Support innovative state and local projects to address ACEs and toxic stress in children. Develop common agenda across state government to advance child welfare and realign the juvenile justice system. 13
Building Strong Brains: Strategies for Educators Training program to empower educators to address adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the classroom. Fundamental aspect of the department s goal to provide support to educators to recognize and address ACEs and to promote resiliency. Funded by the Governor s TN ACEs Initiative In 2017-18 over 7,000 educators in 43 school districts received Building Strong Brains training. Educators move from asking students What s wrong with you? to What happened? And how can I help? 14
Trauma-Informed Schools For 2018-19 the department received competitive applications from schools across the state to become model trauma- informed schools Over 150 applications received and 70 schools selected Schools agree to send a team of five persons to a three-day training, complete a needs assessment, and focus on staff self-care Schools receive high quality training, resources, and ongoing support as they implement trauma-informed practices 22 schools from the Middle TN area were selected 15
What have we learned? This work is complex and takes time. We must keep going. We need on-going support to meet critical needs. 17
