Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education

“The executive chair/ceo, chief strategy officer, president, vice president of finance and operations, staff accountant, and external accountant perform an initial review of the form 990. A draft copy of the form 990 is shared with the audit chair of the board of directors and the audit committee. The form 990 is then shared with the entire board of directors. Finally, it is reviewed with the chairman of the board.”

“Score has a written conflict of interest policy which is reviewed and updated, if necessary, annually by the governance committee. Additionally, a disclosure statement along with the copy of the current policy is mailed to each board member annually for completion and acknowledgment. All disclosure statements are reviewed by the ceo and chairman of the board to determine if further action is needed.”

“Same as above. The process for determining compensation includes: 1) a review and approval by the board of directors or compensation committee of the organization, 2) the use of data regarding comparable compensation for others in similar positions and 3) contemporaneous documentation and record keeping.”

“Governing documents, policies, and financial statements are available upon request.”

“The state collaborative on reforming education (score) drives collaboration on policy and practice to ensure student success across tennessee. Score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan advocacy and research institution and measures its success by the academic growth of tennessee's students.”

“The state collaborative on reforming education (score) drives collaboration on policy and practice to ensure student success across tennessee. Score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan advocacy and research institution and measures its success by the academic growth of tennessee's students.”

“Policy and advocacy: advocacy: score builds awareness and support for education issues and works to sustain momentum among organizations and individuals around improving student achievement in the state of tennessee. Score's efforts in 2017 included: - score developed a new vision for improving student achievement to guide tennessee's reform efforts through 2025. Score engaged nearly 1,700 tennesseans in communities across the state to understand what is needed for the state to continue to move education forward. Through this process, score collaboratively established five priorities to help tennessee students rise to among the best in the nation and the world, which are laid out in the report excellence for all: how tennessee can lift our students to best in the nation. - score conducted a statewide campaign to build an understanding of the value of the state's tnready assessment among educators, families, and community members through the expect more, achieve more coalition. The campaign engaged educators through professional development events and informational materials to share with parents; reached parents and community members with radio and digital advertisements and printed mailers; and distributed a signed letter of encouragement from governor bill haslam and a no. 2 pencil to 255,000 third- and fourth-graders across the state before they took the assessment for the first time. - score's legislative and gubernatorial engagement included organizing a day on the hill that brought dozens of educators, advocates, and other partners to nashville to advocate for student-centered education policies through briefings and legislative visits. Additionally, score offered briefings about priorities for ensuring continued progress for students to all major gubernatorial candidates. - score conducted a communications and outreach campaign - teach today, change tomorrow - to encourage tennessee's students to consider teaching as a career. The teach today, change tomorrow website earned more than 78,000-page views after nearly 10 million impressions from digital and social advertising and more than 79,000 impressions from organic social media during the campaign. Policy and research: score researches key policies and develops tools and reports that elevate important topics and shares best practices to advance score's strategic priorities. In 2017, this work included: - score, in partnership with nashvillehealth, hosted better health, better learning: a conversation on tennessee student success, a summit on the relationship between student achievement and student health that drew more than 400 attendees. Score also conducted a scan of health and education policies in tennessee and developed a brief highlighting existing research about the connection between health and education. - in support of the development of tennessee's plan under the every student succeeds act (essa), which was approved by the u.s. Department of education in 2017 and articulates state-specific solutions to meet the needs of tennessee's students, score participated in working groups, provided in-depth feedback and gathered expert input during the plan's draft stages, and formally reviewed the publicly released draft plan. Score also researched promising practices to support essa implementation. - since score's founding, it has produced timely reports and policy memos on important issues, as determined by score and its partners, to inform policy and practice. In 2017, score released the 2016-17 state of education in tennessee report and developed a brief on postsecondary readiness initiatives in tennessee that details various state and local efforts.”

“Technical assistance: score works to collaboratively support key partners as their efforts align with score's theory of change. - score launched the tennessee educational innovation fund to expand the impact of student-focused organizations, leaders, and initiatives in local and regional areas of the state. The teif leverages financial resources and strategic partnerships in support of students. - score worked with the tennessee learning circle (tlc), a group of education philanthropic leaders across the state, to support a focus on school leadership in tennessee. Score helped develop recommendations for improving the school leader pipeline, and score's technical assistance and strategic facilitation are leading to the implementation of many of these recommendations in 2018. - through fiscal sponsorship, score provides grants management, fiscal oversight, project monitoring, and strategic advice for critical projects that align with its mission and theory of change as well as tennessee's student achievement goals. In 2017, score's fiscal sponsorship directly supported efforts for key partners, including strategic planning and monitoring, strategic communications, capacity-building, professional development, convening, and research and evaluation.”

“Educator networks: score fosters, convenes, and supports strong networks of education leaders, specifically teacher leaders and district leaders. In 2017, this work included: - score convened the leading innovation for tennessee (lift) education network, which unites a small group of superintendents - whose 13 districts represent more than a third of tennessee's students - to explore innovative approaches and share best practices that benefit students. In 2017, lift focused on improving student outcomes by improving the quality of literacy instruction in their districts, and significant progress was made. A third of lift literacy classrooms now show some or full alignment to the tennessee english language arts standards, compared with less than 10 percent previously. Almost nine in ten teachers in participating districts feel more supported because of the lift work, and more than nine in ten teachers believe this work benefits the students in their districts. - score's tennessee educator fellowship brought together a diverse group of educators from across the state who are passionate about their profession and student-focused education policy. In 2017, the 2016-17 cohort of 48 fellows ended and the 2017-18 cohort of 49 fellows began. During the fellows' one-year term, score provides information, tools, and relationships to equip and position teachers to advocate effectively for students. - in partnership with the tennessee department of education, score hosted a teacher leader summit that drew almost 160 attendees from 58 tennessee school districts for a day of deep learning and collaboration with prominent tennessee education leaders. Participants explored how to develop, support, and leverage teacher leadership to drive and deepen instructional improvement aligned to the tennessee academic standards and the tnready assessment across the state. - score partnered with districts across tennessee to host five regional elevating and celebrating effective teachers and teaching (ecet2) events that engaged 560 educators to celebrate effective teaching practices, promote teacher-led professional learning, and provide opportunities for networking.”

“Contract labor - project lift: program service expenses 1,136,400. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 1,136,400. Contract labor - project tef: program service expenses 279,250. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 279,250. Contract labor - project policy maker outreach: program service expenses 6,375. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 6,375. Contract labor - project strategic communications: program service expenses 91,575. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 91,575. Contract labor - project annual report: program service expenses 5,950. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 5,950. Contract labor - video online & digital strategy: program service expenses 51,122. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 51,122. Contract labor - miscellaneous contractors/consultants: program service expenses 0. Management and general expenses 49,620. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 49,620. Contract labor - assessment: program service expenses 149,120. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 149,120. Contract labor - polling: program service expenses 209,650. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 209,650. Contract labor - education impact series: program service expenses 459. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 459. Contract labor - gubernatiorial support: program service expenses 60,000. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 60,000. Contract labor - teacher empowerment: program service expenses 90,150. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 90,150. Contract labor - advocacy outreach support: program service expenses 7,500. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 7,500. Contract labor - tn leadership council: program service expenses 8,125. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 8,125. Contract labor - innovation fund: program service expenses 24,688. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 24,688. Contract labor - educator engagement support: program service expenses 162,964. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 162,964. Contract labor - policy & research support: program service expenses 750. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 750. Contract labor - technical assistance support: program service expenses 18,100. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 18,100.”