Leadership Nashville has announced the members of its 41st leadership class. The nine-month program is designed to strengthen not only the community, but provide leadership education to Nashville’s most influential community members. “Selection was especially …
Leadership Nashville: Meet the class of 2016-17
Leadership Nashville, a nine-month program that aims to help community leaders, has announced the new members for its 41st class. Each class includes a variety a professions, industries, races, genders, ages, religions and neighborhoods. Selection …
Metro Schools’ Blue Ribbon Teachers honored at Vanderbilt reception
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos hosted a reception May 23 at the University Residence to honor Metro Nashville Public Schools’ 46 Blue Ribbon Teachers for 2016. The award, part of a citywide effort to recognize and honor …
46 Nashville teachers receive Blue Ribbon honor
Forty-six teachers have been named as some of Nashville’s most outstanding educators for 2016, according to a district news release. The teachers were named Blue Ribbon Teacher award winners as part of an initiative that is part of …
Nashville schools chief spells out board-director relationship
I think that many Nashvillians, perhaps including the nine members of the Metro school board, were a little stunned when the board took just 30 minutes to unanimously agree on Shawn Joseph to be the new …
New Nashville schools chief: Reform won’t happen from top down
The Nashville community will have a strong voice in helping incoming Director of Schools Shawn Joseph map a route to improve Metro Nashville Public Schools, the superintendent said in an exclusive interview Wednesday with The Tennessean. “I have …
5 challenges for Shawn Joseph as Nashville schools director
As Shawn Joseph makes his transition away from Prince George’s County and into Nashville, there will be plenty for the new superintendent to do when he hits the ground. Joseph, who is the Maryland-area schools’ deputy superintendent, will begin his job as …
Shawn Joseph, school board chart new future for Nashville kids
The Nashville School Board made this community proud by coming together and selecting a highly qualified and competent educator, Shawn Joseph, as the new school system director. That decision day was Friday the 13th was not …
Shawn Joseph is Nashville’s new schools chief
Shawn Joseph is Nashville’s next director of schools, capping a tumultuous year that saw one failed search lead to a second with greater community involvement and an eventual unanimous decision by the Metro school board to pick …
Metro Schools finds new director in Dr. Shawn Joseph
Dr. Shawn Joseph accepted the Director of Schools position with Metro Schools just an hour after he was formally offered the job Friday morning. “I accept. I thank the board for its leadership and the …