Nashville Talent Hub Featured on Lumina Foundation Webinar Series
Education 2020-08-20In June 2020, Laura Ward, Senior Director of Talent Development with the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce was a featured panelist in the L...
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In June 2020, Laura Ward, Senior Director of Talent Development with the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce was a featured panelist in the L...
By: Guest Author
NASHVILLE, Tenn. The State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) has invited 30 leaders from across higher education, K-12 education,...
By: Dawn Cornelius
The first week of school will look a little different this year. As you and your family are preparing for an unconventional start to the...
By: Samantha Perez
Congratulations to the 2020 cohort of Leadership Public Education (LPE) for completing the program. Fellows learned and discussed the struct...
By: Scott Meltzer
Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) is a diverse and vibrant school system comprised of more than 84,000 students in grades Pre K - 12. MN...
By: Brogan Bunnell
As Middle Tennessee begins to reopen its economy, local employers are looking for ways to educate and retrain their employees as they begin ...
By: Laura Ward
Over the past ten years, while Nashville-Davidson County has had unprecedented growth, we have also seen staggering growth in the number of ...
By: Laura Ward
Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) is closed for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year. While parents work remotely and students a...
By: Brogan Bunnell
The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce congratulates the inaugural 2020 cohort of Leadership Public Education, a 6-month public educati...
By: Scott Meltzer
As we head into this last week before the holidays, there is still important work to be done. Tomorrow we will be releasing our annual...
By: Samantha Perez
The Talent team at the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce supports members with increasing access to our local workforce by facilitating...
By: Scott Meltzer
Employers seek future employees that have professional skills such as communication and critical thinking. Metro Nashville Public Schools ha...
By: Samantha Perez
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 8, 2019) – Today, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce released its Tech Workforce Study and announced the launch of...
By: Dawn Cornelius
The lives of our most vulnerable residents - including many children - will only improve when our whole city commits itself to this purpose....
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 10, 2019) – The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce released the following statement regarding the school board’s vot...
By: Dawn Cornelius
This new quarterly series is designed to inform and inspire employer participation in talent pipeline solutions. In March of 2019, the Ch...
By: Samantha Perez
Thinking about going back to college? Get free support and navigation at the Reconnect Café! Middle Tennessee Reconnect Cafés a...
By: Carly Vaughn
Our Nashville children are struggling. But it isn’t purely an academic struggle. by: Erika BorgNashville students are facing toxic stre...
By: Carly Vaughn
The Academies of Nashville were created to help turn around a struggling school district with a 58% graduation rate. More than a decade...
By: Carly Vaughn
“Students learn from people they love.” This headline from a recent New York Times article captures both the importance of relationships ...
By: Guest Author
Success in life starts long before kids graduate from school and seek jobs. Long-term economic opportunity and well-being depends on ...
By: Guest Author
Even in a world increasingly focused on automation, so-called “soft skills” are the ones that are most in-demand. What are “soft skills”? T...
By: Carly Vaughn
The Nashville Chamber recognizes the need to foster a talent pipeline for employers that starts in school. A great education is the...
By: Carly Vaughn
2018 Education Report Card focuses on Social Emotional Learning A five-month study of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) efforts in the ...
By: Dawn Cornelius
International Literacy Day is celebrated every year on September 8. This day is dedicated to the importance of reading and writing for every...
By: Carly Vaughn
This blog was provided by Chamber member and P2020 Investor Dollar General as part of our Member Content program.Education is a cornerstone ...
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Art education has a huge impact on the academic outcomes of students from all backgrounds. One Nashville organization, Moves & Groo...
By: Carly Vaughn
On May 4, we hosted an event in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation to explore the role business leaders in our commu...
By: Carly Vaughn
On November 14, seven thousand Metro Nashville Public Schools freshmen journeyed to the 9th annual “My Future, My Way” Career Exploration Fa...
By: Carly Vaughn
This past week, the Nashville Ford NGL Hub hosted the 16th Academies of Nashville Study Visit since 2011. By: Samantha Perez, D...
On Thursday, Saint Thomas Health held a commissioning ceremony for 118 Metro Nashville Public School students as part of their Health Sc...
By: Carly Vaughn
This week, a record number of chamber leaders converged on Nashville’s Music City Center for the Association Chamber of Commerce Executives’...
By: Verlinda Darden, Project Coordinator, Policy Having Hillsboro High School 2017 graduate Yahya Ali as a part of our Policy department ...
Education is a top priority for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. We focus on education because a strong public school sy...
By: Carly Vaughn
With public education as our organization's No. 1 priority, it is only fitting that the Nashville Area Chamber partner with Mayor Megan Barr...
By: Candy Johnson
There was an indescribable energy that buzzed through the Music City Center on Oct. 27, as more than 6,400 eager Metro Public Schools freshm...
Newly appointed Director of Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) Dr. Shawn Joseph addressed the August meeting of the Chamber’s Educatio...
The Chamber is partnering with The Tennessean, the Nashville Public Library and the ASNE News Literacy Program to host a public conversat...
By: Whitney Weeks
The Nashville Area Chamber, Nashville Metro Public Schools and Greater Nashville Association of Realtors hosted this school year's third ...
By: Rita McDonald
Medicine and music were the prominent themes in a pair of essays submitted by freshmen from John Overton High School and Antioch High Sch...
By: Rita McDonald
The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce is involved in education policy work on many fronts, as part of our mission of facilitating commun...
By: Candy Johnson
The Chamber's Education Committee reconvened at the offices of ChanceLight Behavioral Health and Education for their third meeting of the...
By: Rita McDonald
The Chamber's Education Committee recently reconvened for their second meeting of the 2015-2016 school year. Laura Moore, Chamber VP of poli...
By: Rita McDonald
For companies and organizations across the city, the annual "My Future, My Way" Freshman Career Exploration Fair provides an opportunity to ...
By: Rita McDonald
Wednesday, Feb. 17, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., McKissack Middle Prep Wednesday, April 6, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Creswell Middle Prep School of th...
By: Rita McDonald
The Nashville Area Chamber, Metro Nashville Public Schools and Greater Nashville Association of Realtors kicked off this school year's serie...
By: Rita McDonald
The Chamber's Education Committee recently reconvened for their first meeting of the 2015-2016 school year. Special guest Chris Henson, chie...
By: Rita McDonald
Earlier today, a wide range of organizations representing the business, religious, ethnic and worker diversity in our community collectively...
The Chamber’s Education Committee recently held their final meeting of the 2014-2015 school year on a positive note. Members hear...
By: Rita McDonald
Last night, the accomplishments of our outstanding public schools, teachers, administrators and business partnerships took center stage ...
By: Rita McDonald
Our final Middle Prep VIP tour for the school year at DuPont Hadley Middle on April 1 ended with a bang. More than 50 attendees were wel...
By: Rita McDonald
As current Director of Metro Schools Dr. Jesse Register nears the end of his contract on June 30, the search is on for a new schools dir...
Sen. Lamar Alexander is leading the effort to reauthorize the federal education law this year, and Tennessee's four regional chambers of...
By: Marc Hill
According to U.S. News & World Report, the students, faculty and leadership at Hume-Fogg Academic High School and Martin Luther King Jr....
By: Whitney Weeks
Miller Says Report Not About Silencing School Board Dissent 2014 Education Report Card Committee Co-chair Jackson Miller told members...
By: Whitney Weeks