In Case You Missed It: LEAD Teacher Featured on NewsChannel5 for Girls Lacrosse
Former Duke lacrosse player teaching inner city girls sport and to achieve dreams On an early Saturday morning in June, Callie Francis teaches girls how to cradle a lacrosse ball in their tiny hands. "Keep it in your right hand, you're a
How LEAD Brick Church and LEAD Neely’s Bend are improving teacher retention and student performance
LEAD Brick Church and LEAD Neely's Bend were featured in Chalkbeat Tennessee on August 27. Here’s how two Nashville state-run schools are tackling teacher turnover, low student performance Educator Francie Brooks has seen a huge amount of staff turnover at her school,
LEAD Student-led Conferences featured in Chalkbeat Tennessee
LEAD Cameron Math teacher Alyssa Patel wrote a column about our student-led conferences that appeared on August 19 in Chalkbeat Tennessee. How student-led conferences changed how I see my students We love to ask middle school students what they want to be
Five LEAD Schools Earn Highest Marks for Growth
Nashville’s only two ASD schools demonstrated academic growth faster than their peers across Tennessee For the second straight year, students across the LEAD network far outgrew their peers academically across Tennessee by earning the highest score - Level 5 - on
Welcome back to school!
As we embark on our 13th year of operation as a network, we return to school with an emphasis this year on our LEAD Ethos, the founding principles of our network. We ask all staff members and students to
LEAD Celebrates Class of 2019 with annual Senior Signing Day
Seniors from LEAD Academy High School celebrated Signing Day today with 2,500 LEAD students, alumni, teachers, family members and supporters from the community gathered at the Belmont Curb Event Center. Senior Signing Day spotlights ALL seniors, not just athletes, many of
FIVE LEAD teachers named Blue Ribbon Award Winners!
LEAD Public Schools is proud to announce that five teachers in our network are Blue Ribbon Teacher award winners for the 2018-2019 school year. The honor is given by Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, the Nashville Public Education Foundation and Nashville’s
Serving students AND their families: LEAD Southeast offers adult ESL Classes
Jose Cisillas speaks English fluently, but the Nashville transplant only learned to read and write in his native language of Spanish in school. So when his daughter Kristie, a student at LEAD Southeast Middle, had questions about her homework in
Join us at Senior Signing Day 2019!
We hope you can join us for our annual Senior Signing Day on Thursday, May 16 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Belmont University's Curb Event Center. Join us as our network gathers to witness the class of 2019 commit to
Cameron’s “Newcomer Academy” helps refugee and immigrant students
When Eradi walked into his first day of 5th grade at LEAD Cameron Middle School, he didn’t speak a word of English. Instead, he spoke only a remote dialect of Swahili, that no one in the district could interpret. “He could