The instruction and curriculum department received approval from the Rutherford County School Board to purchase continued access to SmartMusic. The online platform provided by MakeMusic is for all instrumental music teachers and, more importantly, students enrolled in middle and high school instrumental music courses for the 2021–2022 school year. SmartMusic allows teachers to assign students…
Thirty minutes. That’s all it took for Beth Nelson and her friends to feel a sense of relief when they stood up and walked out of the auditorium at Oakland High School. Nelson admitted that she and other seniors often feel “so much pressure” on knowing where they are going to college, what they plan…
The Rutherford County Board of Education has unanimously approved the Carl D. Perkins Reserve Grant along with a grant for the voluntary pre-kindergarten program worth more than $1.3 million. The latter is used to partially fund the district’s 15 voluntary pre-K programs — 12 of which are in the John Colemon Annex along with classrooms…
A team of students from Stewarts Creek High School’s video production program will work with the Town of Smyrna’s media services personnel to broadcast the August 20th Smyrna vs. Stewarts Creek football game live on Stewarts Creek TV and multiple Town of Smyrna platforms. Town of Smyrna Manager Brian D. Hercules understands the value of…
Like many local restaurants and food service employers throughout Rutherford County, the school nutrition department is experiencing issues with hiring and retaining cafeteria workers. To help file more than 30 open positions, the school board unanimously approved a one-time hiring and retention bonus of $500 to attract and retain staffing for school cafeterias. “If you…
Parents may be wondering about all the activity happening on the three Rockvale school campuses. Multiple projects are in motion as the school district prepares to add classrooms at the middle and elementary schools. “I just want parents to know we’re working hard to Diagram, engineering drawing provide space and opportunities for our students to…
Dr. Thurman Tucker has been selected to participate in the Advisory Council for Special Education Collaborative. Tucker, who teaches seventh grade inclusion math at LaVergne Middle School, was also selected this past spring as the Middle School Teacher of the Year for Rutherford County Schools. “I am humbled and honored to be a part of…
Rutherford County Schools already has plans in motion to accelerate learning for students who experienced learning loss during the 2020-2021 school year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Tennessee Department of Education released achievement scores today from last spring’s TCAPs, and as expected, the assessments show students from across the state, including Rutherford…
On August 6th The Exchange Club of Murfreesboro presented a variety of school supplies to the Department of Children Services to provide those needs to their clients. Frequently children are removed from situations and do not have time to retrieve their school supplies. In order to help those students continue their education needs these supplies…
It had been three years since Dhruv Patel had been in the mechatronics classroom at Oakland High School. After graduating in May 2018, Patel enrolled in the University of Alabama – Huntsville, where he is majoring in aerospace engineering. Last week, he was one of more than 10 former Oakland graduates who returned for the…