Not two days ago, an EF3, 600 yard-wide tornado tore a path over 11 miles long across the north part of our county. Hundreds of houses and businesses have been leveled. Schools damaged. Property lost. Lives forever altered and lives lost. The destruction photographs and videos I have grown so numb to seeing on the […]

This week the Tennessee Department of Education released teacher scores. They take each teacher’s assigned students, analyze how they perform on the one big state assessment and then score that teacher on a scale from 1 to 5. The teacher gets to say whether they want to be evaluated on student growth or overall performance, […]

I don’t remember the day, where we were going, or even why we were in the car. It was sunny, very sunny, and very hot, as it tends to be in August in Middle Tennessee. My nine year old asks from the back seat why that “silly” lady is walking under an umbrella on such […]