Sumner County Schools

Gallatin, TN

Wit & Wisdom (K-8)

February 22, 2020 - February 23, 2020



Media

Guest Article
The 74: After a Shift in Curriculum in One Tennessee County, ‘Everyone’s Playing Field Is the Same’
Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

03/31/2020

Press Coverage
Fox 17 WZTV: Knowledge Matters Campaign visits Sumner County to talk about curriculum
"It's really making meaning out of text and so the more you know about the world, the more you're more likely to do that."

02/24/2020

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Lauren Howard – Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

“The connections and the discussions are there, and they were not before….Seeing the connections across subject areas is incredible.”

02/24/2020

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Scott Langford – Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

“They possess a lot more content knowledge than a lot of kids we see in high school.”

02/24/2020

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Kari Petty – Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

“They can do the work. If you expect them to do the work, they’ll do it.”

02/24/2020

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Ashley Jarratt – Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

“With this curriculum, everyone is getting it, everyone is pushed. High learners, lower learners, everybody is being pushed.”

02/24/2020

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Stephanie Watkins – Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

“It’s a lot easier to implement classroom management techniques because it starts day one with our curriculum, embedding routines and procedures.”

02/24/2020

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Parent – Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

“I’d ask, ‘well who’d you play with at recess?’ because that was really the only thing I could get out of them….This year it’s completely changed.”

02/24/2020

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Racheal Mason – Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

“They are creating projects, having conversations with each other, and putting things on Google Drive about these texts that they are involved with.”

02/24/2020

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Scott Langford – Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

“They just love to come home and talk about what they’re reading.”

02/24/2020

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Kari Petty – Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

“What I thought was good was not what the teacher next to me thought….We didn’t have evidence to say ‘this is what writing has to look like.'”

02/24/2020

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Jenni Copeland – Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

“We’re able to not just complete a lesson…but really sit and think about how it’s going to flow and what we’re expecting for the kids.”

02/24/2020

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Kari Petty – Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

“The Socratic seminars are great. They really enjoy those academic, text-based discussions.”

02/24/2020

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Valencia Smith – Sumner County Schools, Gallatin, TN

“They [teachers] still spend a lot of time outside the school day working… but it’s more rehearsing and fine-tuning.”

02/24/2020