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News|November 1, 2016

3 Tips for Developing and Assessing Soft Skills: First, Take Off Your Emotional Armor

Source: EdSurge Author: Daren Dickson As I watched Jamal present his Life Story in his 6th grade pride circle, I was struck not so much by the quality of the content or structure of his presentation–on paper, those elements probably would not have received a high grade–but by the impact he was having on the […]

News|October 13, 2016

5 Reasons We’re Pumped to Partner with Valor Collegiate

Source: Transcend Education Blog Transcend was founded just over a year ago. Our aim is to partner with the country’s most visionary educators to help accelerate their innovation toward new models of learning. We looked for high-impact partnerships to provide the R&D capacity needed to build, codify, and spread the kinds of school models that have […]

News|August 30, 2016

(The 74) A New Nashville School Is Integrating its Students, Eliminating Suspensions — and Acing the State Tests

(Read original article here) Brandi Kellett, 38, was making dinner for her family at her home in a gentrifying neighborhood of Nashville known as 12South when she realized that her 12-year-old son, now a student at Valor Collegiate Academies, was finally getting the kind of education she had long dreamed about. When his younger brother […]

News|January 6, 2016

Valor Collegiate Academy: Where Student Well-Being Fuels Academic Achievement

Source: Ed Surge Jack stood face-to-face with Sergio, surrounded by a circle of twenty other sixth grade boys. The room was thick with emotion as their teacher, Ms. McShea, thought to herself, “Uh oh, this may not go well.” But they weren’t there to fight. Jack asked Sergio to the center of the circle to […]

News|February 16, 2015

Valor Collegiate Academies Plans $3M Expansion on Nolensville Pike

Valor Collegiate Academies has paid $1.4 million for property on Nolensville Pike, where it operates its first middle school with plans to spend another $3 million to double the size of the building.

News|September 16, 2014

Nashville Charter School Makes Diversity a Central Goal

During a morning assembly at the recently-opened charter school Valor Collegiate Academy, a triangle of fifth-grade girls — one Asian, one Hispanic and one white — discussed how they could help improve their learning community. That sort of diversity in the classroom setting is a rare scene in schools across Tennessee and even rarer in the burgeoning charter sector where leaders have designed their curriculum and school culture to serve single-demographic populations.

News|August 21, 2014

Diverse Charter School Opens in Nashville

Earlier this month, a new kind of charter school opened in Nashville. Valor Collegiate Academy has an innovative model that incorporates an impressive mix of racial and socioeconomic diversity — as well as ambitious academic goals — at the heart of its strategic plan. It is an exciting development for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, and one that comes after several years of trial and error with a new charter school law.

News|June 25, 2014

MNPS Board Approves Five Charter Schools

Five new charter schools received the green light from the Metro school board Tuesday, overcoming fiscal concerns of some members and continuing Nashville’s steady growth of a model that has been the source of contentious debate here. Fast-growing South Nashville will be home to four of the new schools, while the nation’s largest charter operator will take over a still-undetermined low-performing elementary school

News|March 12, 2014

Nashville’s Valor Charter School Attracts Unique Racial, Class Mix

A cross section of Nashville students showed up Thursday to learn whether they had the right number to get into Valor Collegiate Academy, a new charter middle school set to open this fall on Nolensville Pike in South Nashville beginning with the fifth grade. Some 260 students applied — with parents citing the appeal of diversity and a more demanding learning environment — but only 160 could get in.

News|March 6, 2014

Valor Collegiate Academy Touts More Diversity, Hundreds Apply

If you think families are losing interest in Nashville’s charter schools, you probably haven’t heard of Valor Collegiate Academy. Thursday, hundreds of families learned if their child will make it into the first 5th grade class. Todd Dickson’s track record of success in California lead to his recruitment to Nashville by city leaders, including Mayor Karl Dean.

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