MNPS

Peabody College of education and human development has long had a partnership with the Murrell School, an East Nashville school for students with extreme emotional and learning disabilities. Vanderbilt now supplies more than 90 percent of student teachers to the school, which is led by principal Susan Siegel, BS’78, and assistant principal Tyisha Walker, PhD’25, and counts numerous Vanderbilt alums on the teaching staff. Read More

Smiles, hugs and a few tears filled the room at the Martin Professional Development Center on Feb. 27 as seniors from zoned and magnet Metro Nashville Public Schools celebrated admission to Vanderbilt and induction into the inaugural cohort of the Nashville Vanderbilt Scholars Program.  Read More

A Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools student from the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt’s senior class, also a student at Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School, has been named as Tennessee’s only top 40 finalist in this year’s Regeneron Science Talent Search. This national competition recognizes… Read More

As MNPS works to address low literacy rates among its students, the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries have stepped forward to partner on novel solutions. Some of those solutions have included having Vanderbilt students serve as library ambassadors in Metro schools and bringing in community partners—like independent booksellers Parnassus Books and Book’em—to help. Read More

A pilot program started by Vanderbilt engineering professor Ghina Absi is helping to spark high school students’ interest in engineering and STEM as well as show them the impact they can have on their communities. The program is a joint venture with the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt, which is a partnership with Vanderbilt and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. Read More

Both ASD and IZone schools are recruiting effective teachers, but the iZone schools are doing a better job of retaining them. Read More

A few thousand families in the Metro Nashville Public Schools system will now have computers at home, thanks to Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s donation of 3,800 lightly used computers. Read More

A panel discussion will continue the discourse on prekindergarten issues facing policymakers. Read More

For more than 20 years, Vanderbilt Sports Medicine has maintained a relationship with Metro Nashville Public Schools to ensure excellent care is provided to local athletes. Vanderbilt is now the official sports medicine provider to all 15 Metro high schools. Read More

Best-selling author James Patterson will speak to a gathering of about 100 middle-school students from Isaiah T. Creswell Middle Arts Magnet School on the power of reading Tuesday, April 8 at Vanderbilt. Read More

Peabody's Educational Leadership Learning Exchange will convene to increase knowledge of education policies between the U.S. and China. Read More

Peabody's Teaching and Learning in Urban Schools program graduates its first cohort of students. Read More