Elizabethton High School – Technology Integration into the Curriculum
This partnership is designed to successfully integrate technology into core subject areas. By building the necessary infrastructure, this partnership will also facilitate the expansion of virtual learning opportunities for students at Elizabethton High School.
Greeneville High School – Virtual Learning Partnership.
The Virtual School Foreign Language Partnership is designed to use state-of-the-art technology to deliver foreign language courses in a virtual setting. At present, French I and French II are being offered to students at Greeneville High School. Additional courses, such as Mandarin Chinese, are being developed.
Greene County / Greeneville City – Career Technical Partnership
In an effort to increase the enrollment, rigor and relevance of the Career Technical Center, the Foundation has committed funds to add Project Lead the Way (a pre-engineering program) and to enhance the existing Health Science Program.
Greene County High School Latin Partnership
In order to add rigor to the Greene County High School curriculum, the Niswonger Foundation and Greene County Schools entered into a partnership to create a Latin program for the four area high schools. This program will offer Latin I and Latin II during the 2010-11 school year. Using distance learning technology, one teacher will provide these classes to interested students at Chuckey Doak, North Greene, South Greene and West Greene High Schools. To date, approximately 95 students are enrolled in Latin I.
Hancock County High School - ACT Improvement
This partnership was designed to improve the quality of classroom instruction and the quantity of course offerings in order to meet the new standards required by the Tennessee Diploma Project. Emphasis will also be placed on increasing the number of students achieving benchmark scores on the ACT Test.
Johnson County – Middle School Improvement Partnership
The Johnson County Middle School Partnership has identified and is pursuing steps to increase academic performance of students. These steps include: extensive professional development for teachers; on-going mentoring/coaching for administrators and teachers; new educational software; additional technology hardware; creation of a virtual science lab using a 3D dissection system; and additional material for the related arts program.
Washington County - Preschool Initiative
In its first year, this partnership is designed to create a model preschool program for Washington County. Not only will this program provide unique learning opportunities for preschool age children, It will also provide family consultation, parenting skills training, home visits, technology literacy and opportunities for parents/family to participate in the program.
