Outstanding Tennessee educators are trained to provide these schools with effective, ongoing assistance that will focus on high expectations and success for all students. The Department selects Exemplary Educators from a pool of recently retired educators whose experience and expertise will be of tremendous benefit to the schools they are assigned to assist. The Department contracts with Exemplary Educators for their services and is considered the employer. The primary focus is on improved teaching and learning. Participants will achieve this through modeling lessons, mentoring, and assisting educational leaders and school councils in the reduction of barriers to change.
Emphasis is placed on building capacity for continuous school improvement.
It is anticipated that a one hundred-day contract will provide the services of an Exemplary Educator for two schools during an academic year.