BEI in the News
BEI Director Shares the Results of a High School Senior Survey with WBIR
WBIR anchor John Becker interviews Executive Director Bonny Millard during a segment of Newsmakers about BEI’s recent high school Senior Survey. The survey shows that our students are listening and are preparing for their future. Watch the interview with Becker.
BEI’s Message Heard in the East Tennessee Region
Knoxville News Sentinel columnist Greg Johnson helps share BEI’s message in a recent column he wrote on Tennessee’s winning the “Race to the Top” funding.
Press Releases
Congratulations to Mary Beth West Consulting
For the last year and a half, Blount Education Initiative has worked closely with Mary Beth West Consulting, LLC, to develop and coordinate BEI’s public awareness campaign. Mary Beth West and her team were recently recognized with numerous awards from the Public Relations Society of America Volunteer chapter.
BEI Advocates Investing in Education to Ensure A Healthy Economic Future
Want more jobs in Blount County? If so, then it’s important for all citizens in the local area to ask a critical question – of themselves, according to the Blount Education Initiative (BEI).
BEI urges citizens who want Blount County to attract and retain employers that offer well-paying, secure jobs to first ask themselves, “Does my own education level offer enough to attract a new employer to Blount County?”
Spotlight
First to the Top Coalition Announced; Expect More, Achieve More Launched
Gov. Phil Bredesen, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Tennessee Commissioner of Education Tim Webb, and Sen. Jamie Woodson joined together in Knoxville earlier this week to announce the First to the Top Coalition, a statewide alliance with more than 30 partners, which includes Blount Education Initiative.
Calling All Educators…
The educational partners in Innovation Valley are hosting the second annual Educators in the Workplace — Lunch & Learn series and invite area educators to participate.
CHECK IT OUT:
• First to the Top Coalition Announced; Expect More, Achieve More Launched
• Teachers Make a Difference Long After Students Have Left Their Classroom
• Calling All Educators…
• BEI Director Shares the Results of a High School Senior Survey with WBIR
• 90 percent of Graduating High School Seniors from all four Schools Plan for Post-Secondary Education and/or Training
Community Conversations
Teachers Make a Difference Long After Students Have Left Their Classroom
Teachers never know what influence they have on children.
Fathers at a Local School Band Together to Get More Involved
Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students), a “Father Involvement Initiative of the National Center for Fathering,” is impleted at Foothills Elementary School.