Nashville Public Education Foundation

During the year ending june 30, 2023, the Nashville Public Education Foundation raised awareness on several critical issues, including school choice, charter schools, and the 3rd grade retention law. We also informed voters ahead of the 2023 municipal elections by releasing a guide on becoming the Education mayor. With nonprofit partners, we launched the Nashville child and youth collaborative to focus mayoral candidates' attention on the needs of children and youth and cohosted a mayor's forum with wpln. We continued to invest in what works through our teacherpreneur program, blue ribbon teacher awards, the science of learning series, and tech goes home, a program that provide laptops free of charge to mnps families in exchange for participating in digital literacy training. We also supported the district's music makes us programming and partnered with the country music association Foundation to distribute the music teachers of excellence awards. We served as a collaborative thought partner to the district by heping to facilitate two partnerships - the partnershp for educational equity research between vanderbilt university and mnps and the better together initiative between Nashville state community college and mnps. Finally, we continued our investment in school leadership by partnering with the Tennessee Education research alliance at vanderbilt university to analyze the demographics and quality of Nashville's principals.