Leading up to her first week as the new principal of Plainview Elementary School, Anna Sturm did make a few modifications to her new office. She opened all the blinds to let in the natural light. She also repositioned the desk. But other than those cosmetic updates, she doesn’t intend to make any wholesale changes….
Here’s a fact about otters: when floating, they tend to stick together in groups called “rafts.” The same could be said for the teachers and students at Plainview Elementary School, which uses the otter as its mascot. For example, Tennessee has adopted a new third-grade retention law that potentially holds students back unless they are…
Plainview Elementary School has been chosen as the winner of the TSBA 2021 School of the Year Award. The award from the Tennessee School Boards Association recognizes the school for its excellence in design. The Principal, Dr. Mark Gonyea, accepted the award in November at the Gaylord Opryland Resort. The building, “gets kids excited” and…
The Jernigan name is synonymous with Rutherford County. Joe Frank Jernigan represented District 6 on the County Commission for 22 years during which time he served on the Health & Education committee and his district benefited from the building of Whitworth-Buchanan Middle, Christiana Middle and Kittrell Elementary schools, as well as other county facilities and…
From the outside it has looked like the site of a future elementary school for quite some time. Monday morning, Dr. Mark Gonyea emerged from his latest walk-through at Plainview Elementary School able to say it feels like a school. “It’s gotten more and more real each and every day,” said Gonyea, who was named…