The mayor’s office and Nashville’s education foundation have teamed to form a cabinet of teachers that will help with conversations among the various groups interested in K-12 education. The cabinet will add to conversations being held …
Mayor, school board feel confident about search
It’s all quiet on the Metro Nashville Public Schools director search, and that is both natural and deliberate, according to the partners orchestrating the process. It’s a sign that the process is working, they say. …
Q & A with Nashville’s schools director search firm
The hunt for Metro Nashville Public Schools’ next director is underway, as the district’s recruitment firm, Jim Huge and Associates, is working to sell the district’s top education job. Advertisements are being run about the search, and Huge is actively working to recruit candidates. Huge, hired …
Nashville mayor, board member to discuss Metro schools director search
In an effort to communicate the next steps of the Metro Nashville Public School Board’s superintendent search, board member Will Pinkston, along with Mayor Megan Barry, will host a telephone town hall next week to …
Nashville priority schools work to improve
Principal Justin Uppinghouse is a popular man when he roams the halls of Nashville’s Whitsitt Elementary. Like a socialite at a party, Uppinghouse is frequently stopped for a chat and a hug, only in his …
Huge and Associates picked to lead Nashville schools director search
Consulting firm Jim Huge and Associates is expected to lead Nashville’s recruitment efforts for a new director of schools. The board unanimously voted Friday night to move forward with the firm, which was one of …
Nashville schools director task force offers recommendations
A game plan to find Metro Nashville Public Schools’ next director is set, and it will be up to the school board to execute. The board’s 17-member director-search task forceFriday finished its report that provides 10 recommendations on how …
Use Johnny Cash’s advice on picking schools director
In a 1993 interview, Nashville legend Johnny Cash talked about how important the roadblocks he encountered, and the failures he endured, were ultimately crucial to the success he had. “You build on failure. You use it …
Group highlights attributes of next Nashville schools chief
The leader Nashville needs for its schools and where to find that person are becoming clear after the second meeting Friday of Metro Schools’ director-search task force. Each of the 17 members of the task …
Community gets voice in Nashville schools director hunt
Parents and teachers will have another chance to say what they’d like in the search for Nashville’s next director of schools. The Nashville Public Education Foundation has created a nine-question survey that will be sent …
