Connections
A NEWSLETTER CONNECTING THE FSSD COMMUNITY TO ITS RESOURCES
Franklin Special School District is fortunate to have such amazing faculty and staff that support our students and work tirelessly to shape the goals and dreams of our future generations. Your commitment and dedication is greatly appreciated! This newsletter highlights some educational resources for students to further support academic goals and standards. Please feel free to include these resources in other newsletters, announcements, parent notes, flyers, and more!
ELA AND MATH COACHES BY SCHOOL
Moore Elementary School
Kim Smith, Reading
Franklin Elementary School
Niki Sidler, 2-4 Reading
Miriam Hyman, K-1 Reading
Liberty Elementary School
Pam Fahey, Reading
Poplar Grove Elementary School
Jennifer Marotta, Reading
Johnson Elementary School
Paula Shinnick, Reading
Freedom Intermediate School
Tanya Stanley, Reading
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"
Homework Hotline
Homework Hotline provides one‐on‐one free tutoring by phone to Tennessee students and parents. Since 1990, our teachers and volunteers have completed more than 500,000 sessions of tutoring.
Hotline helps students tackle new concepts, complete challenging assignments, learn to read, and gain academic skills. Students who get the help they seek return to school more prepared and less discouraged.
Learn More Here:
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Dolly's vision was to foster a love of reading among preschool children and their families by providing them with the gift of a specially selected book each month. By mailing high quality, age-appropriate books directly to their homes, she wanted children to be excited about books and to feel the magic that books can create. Moreover, she could ensure that every child would have books, regardless of their family’s income.
Note: This program is for children from birth to age 5. So it could be used as a resource for our students that have younger siblings that might be coming to our schools one day!
Learn More Here: https://usa.imaginationlibrary.com/register_my_child.php#.WfdCbSMrI2k
Gentry's Educational Foundation
Mission: We assist and prepare young people in our community for school, work and life.
Vision: Every child in our the Gentry community will realize their own potential and have tools for a lifetime of success.
How They Do It: We provide research-based, individualized academic support with state-certified teachers, mentoring and positive character development, while encouraging family engagement.
Serving: FIS and JES
Learn More Here:
MAC Program
The MAC Program is Franklin Special School District’s before and afternoon care program. Through the LEAPS grant (Lottery for Education in Afterschool Programs) MAC offers Homework Support Class and Tutoring at FES, MES, LES, PGS, and FMS (FMS students are bussed to PGS for MAC).
Learn More Here:
http://fssd.org/finance-and-administration/mac-extended-care/
Boys and Girls Club
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Online Resources
netTrekker: This program allows you to find, organize and share hundreds of thousands of professionally-evaluated, standards-aligned online resources. Resources include interactive media, examples, lesson plans, learning games, primary sources, visuals, and more! You are able to refine the source by language, grade level, and a number of other things to better personalize what tools you are searching for!
TEL (Tennessee Electronic Library): is a virtual library that you can access from anywhere with an internet connection. TEL provides access to over 400,000 electronic resources including magazines, scholarly journals, podcasts, videos, e-books, test preparation materials, federal census records, Tennessee primary source materials, and more!
Renaissance Learning: This resource creates assessments and practice solutions that put learning analytics to work for educators, saving hours of prep time while making truly personalized learning possible. Renaissance Learning helps teachers teach better, students learn better, and school administrators lead better—all to improve academic outcomes.
Discovery Education: Ignites student curiosity by utilizing award-winning digital content. Helps make learning fun and interactive!
World Book: A great educational tool that helps makes learning interesting and interactive. A variety of topics are covered from important timelines, world discovery, science activities, and so much more!
Google Education (Web-based apps for students): Allows students to connect with “docs”, “sheets”, “slides”, “forms”, and more to help connect them with resources that are helpful when completing assignments.
Learning.com: This is a resource that aims to help students develop digital literacy skills. From keyboarding and word processing, to computational thinking and coding, digital literacy skills are needed more than ever in today’s society. Learning.com makes it easy to teach students the critical digital literacy skills they must have to succeed on online assessments, college and their future careers.
Compass Learning: Their mission is to provide schools with tools and resources needed to leverage technology in ways that improve student outcomes and fill learning gaps of students.
McGraw Hill and Holt Textbooks also have online resources to help with homework.
Please follow the link below to find out how to gain access to the online resources listed above!
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME!
Amanda Fisher, BSW
The University of Tennessee
Nashville Campus
The College of Social Work
MSW Program
FSSD Intern