When the incoming Deputy Mayor for Community Engagement invites you to the Mayoral Inauguration, you go. Proudly. In uniform. That’s precisely what happened last week. Nashville Mayor John Cooper was sworn-in at a ceremony at Stratford STEM Magnet School on …
Meet Rania Agaib, the Family and Community Engagement (FACE) coordinator at both LEAD Academy High School and LEAD Cameron middle school in South Nashville. Rania began working at LEAD as an office manager in 2012 and was appointed FACE coordinator …
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 …
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 …
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 …
LEAD Brick Church and LEAD Neely’s Bend were recently featured on Fox 17 News in Nashville for their top academic growth scores in the Achievement School District. WATCH: https://fox17.com/news/local/lead-schools-earn-highest-score-on-tvaas-for-second-consecutive-year LEAD schools earn highest score on TVAAS for second consecutive year …
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 embrace …
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 …
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 …
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 …