Community Conversations
BEI invites you to participate in our online community discussion about the importance of education. We want to inspire lively and constructive dialogue about education in the Blount community and how individuals, businesses and organizations can support our local systems. Please join in and share your ideas to make this a true community conversation.
Teachers Make a Difference Long After Students Have Left Their Classroom
Teachers never know what influence they have on children.
May 14th, 2010
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.
February 8th, 2010
Tennessee SCORE Hosts Gubernatorial Forum
Tennessee SCORE will host a forum on Jan. 14 with the leading Democrat and Republican gubernatorial candidates at Belmont University in Nashville.
January 11th, 2010
Tennessee’s Bold Step to Assure Success of Students
The Tennessee Diploma Project will impact today’s ninth graders in terms of the numbers and types of credits they need, hopefully making them better prepared to meet the future.
December 18th, 2009
National Parent Involvement Day
Today Gov. Phil Bredesen is promoting National Parent Involvement Day in Tennessee to honor parents who are involved in their children’s education and their schools. This is also an excellent opportunity to encourage parents to become even more engaged. Involvement in your child’s education is one of the surest roads to your child’s success as an adult. [...]
November 19th, 2009
Sen. Frist: Raise Expectations and Demand High Standards
“We all have a vested interest in education whether we know it or not.” Those are the words of former Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist as he opened a presentation of “A Roadmap to Success: A Plan to Make Tennessee Schools #1 in the Southeast Within Five Years.”
November 13th, 2009
Thank You to the Community for Your Participation
Thanks to all the community members who came out for BEI’s Gubernatorial Community Forum. About 250 people attended the event, and a number of them asked pertinent questions to the four participating gubernatorial candidates.
November 6th, 2009
BEI’s Gubernatorial Community Forum is Just Days Away
We’d love to have you join us for BEI’s Gubernatorial Community Forum at William Blount High School this Monday.
October 23rd, 2009
Test Results Point to Urgency in Rigor and Relevance
Test results released by the U.S. Department of Education yesterday show why we have an urgency here Tennessee to improve statewide education. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that we rank 44th in fourth grade mathematics and 42nd in eighth grade mathematics.
October 15th, 2009
Conversation on Education Blossoms into a Communitywide Event
A small kernel of conversation on education by concerned individuals will grow into a full-blown discussion by the community when it gathers for BEI’s Gubernatorial Community Forum later this month.
October 7th, 2009