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 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 …
LEAD was proud to welcome Tennessee’s new Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn to our Neely’s Bend campus as part of her statewide tour and first week on the job. During her hour-long tour of the turnaround school Wednesday, Feb. 6, Schwinn …
Congratulations to Meghan Stowe, an assistant principal of instruction at LEAD: Neely’s Bend in Madison, who was recently named as one of the Tennessee educators in the 2019 Governor’s Academy for School Leadership (GASL) program, a one-year fellowship program designed …
Please join us in congratulating the students, staff members and families at LEAD Cameron for its second consecutive Reward School designation, honored as one of the 22 schools in Davidson County for outstanding academic excellence and growth for the 2017-2018 school year! …
“Once you can acknowledge that you’re not the greatest at something is when self-growth truly begins. Try, fail, try again and succeed.” – Gerron Hurt LEAD Academy English teacher Gerron Hurt beat out more than 20 other “home cook” competitors …
Students at LEAD Public Schools in Nashville are among the fastest improving schools in the state for student academic growth, scoring a Level 4 or 5 TVAAS growth scores at all six network schools during 2017-18. This success includes the …
The LEAD Public Schools Board of Directors last night unanimously appointed Mr. Dwayne Tucker as the next Chief Executive Officer of the LEAD network. He has served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer since August 2017 and as Board Chairman …
The LEAD Academy Class of 2018 – the fifth consecutive class to earn 100 percent acceptance to a four-year college – graduated tonight in front of a packed McAfee Concert Hall at Belmont University. The 47 seniors – nearly half …
At our third-quarter award ceremony this afternoon, we announced that for the fifth consecutive year, LEAD Academy’s senior class has earned 100 percent acceptance to college! This means every student in every graduating class in LEAD Academy’s history has had …
