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RCS Teacher Recruitment Fair this Saturday, hiring 400 teachers
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Rutherford County Schools will host its annual Teacher Recruitment Fair this Saturday, Feb. 11, from 9-11 a.m. at Blackman High School.
The district is looking to hire 400 teachers, and job applicants will have the opportunity to meet with principals from each of the district's 47 schools, including the new Rocky Fork Middle School opening in August.
For more information, follow this link.
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2017-2018 zone exemption applications now available, deadline April 15
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Beginning Feb. 1, 2017, Rutherford County Schools began accepting zone exemption applications for the 2017-2018 school year. The deadline for priority consideration will be April 15, 2017.
Applications are available at all county schools, the district's central office or can be downloaded online here.
Any parent can request a zone exemption and requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis with consideration given to the reason for the request, the recommendations of the principals and whether the requested school has available space, pursuant to School Board policy. A list of schools that are overcrowded and cannot accept exemptions for the 2017-2018 school year is included on the application. The complete zone exemption policy is available here.
If you have any questions about the zone exemption process, please contact Community Relations department at (615) 893-5812 or [email protected].
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JUNIOR PARENTS: Applications for high school internships due Feb. 8
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LAST CALL!
Applications for the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce's PAID High School Internship Program are dueFeb. 8, by 4:30 p.m.
The summer program is for rising seniors (current juniors)
Check out the full details and application HERE.
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Peer Model applications for Special Ed preschoools due March 10
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Applications for Peer Models for the Special Education Integrated Preschool Program for the 2017-2018 school year are available on the RCS website under the Special Education section.
These applications may be submitted by fax, e-mail or in person by March 10. The mandatory screening will be held on Saturday, March 18, from 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at Barfield Elementary School and Stewartsboro Elementary School.
This screening is required for any applicant that wishes to be considered as a peer model for the upcoming school year. All details of the program are outlined within the application online.
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$10,000 Richard Siegel Foundation scholarship applications due March 1
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The 2017 Richard Siegel Foundation Scholarship guidelines and application are attached. The deadline for application is close of business day (5 p.m.) on March 10, 2017. The scholarships are worth up to $10,000.
The scholarships are open to all Rutherford County seniors, not only those attending Siegel High School. SIEGEL SCHOLARSHIP 2017 GUIDELINES.pdf SIEGEL SCHOLARSHIP 2017 APPLICATION.pdf
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‘Full-Blooded Creek’
First four-year graduating class reflects on experience of attending Rutherford County’s newest high school
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PHOTO / JAMES EVANS
Nearly 500 seniors gather in front of Stewarts Creek High School. The Class of 2017 is the first graduating class to have attended the school all four years. They affectionately refer to themselves as “full-blooded Creek.”
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On the final offensive play of the 2016 season, Drew Harris and Gavin White walked into the huddle, smiled and gave each of their Red Hawk teammates a hug.
For the seniors, it was the realization of a four-year goal.
It was also the shared culmination of a high school football career that provided them with important life-lessons they’ll take with them when they graduate from Stewarts Creek High School in May.
They learned the value of hard work.
They learned what it meant to be one team.
They trailed 41-7 and eventually lost to Hillsboro High School in a Division I Class 5A football tournament for the Tennessee Secondary Schools Athletic Association. When they broke the huddle and stepped up to the line of scrimmage – Harris plays right guard, while White is the left guard – it wasn’t about winning or losing. CONTINUE READING
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SETTING STUDENTS’ FEET ON A PATH
RCS principals say building relationships ‘cornerstone’ to elementary education
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PHOTO / KEITH CARTWRIGHT
Brown’s Chapel principal Kellye Goostree engages two you young students, while observing Julie Gray’s third grade class on Monday morning of this week. Goostree said teachers and administrators are role models for students and that bonds like the one she’s forming with these students are the cornerstone of elementary education.
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After 42 years of teaching and coaching, the late Gerald Johnson had a simple lesson for his daughter Kellye Goostree.
He wanted to make sure her kids always believed they could be anything.
Goostree was married and raised a family before she ever enrolled in college at Middle Tennessee State University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in less than four years followed by two master’s degrees.
Her first year of teaching in the Rutherford County Schools system was her father’s last year in a classroom.
A poor kid from a big family in Franklin, an anonymous donor paid for him to attend Battle Ground Academy. Johnson then came to Murfreesboro as a teenager, where he was a three-sport athlete at MTSU in 1950s and has since been inducted into the Blue Raiders Hall of Fame. CONTINUE READING
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Gov. Haslam tours Central Magnet School to learn from teachers, students
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PHOTO / KEITH CARTWRIGHT
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam asks questions and interacts with students while observing Dr. Kyle Prince's Algebra II class at Central Magnet School.
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MURFREESBORO — It’s not every day that students have an opportunity to engage with a governor in a classroom setting.
In fact, most students will never know that experience.
So it was a rare honor when Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam paid a visit to Central Magnet School this week to privately observe one of the teachers — Dr. Kyle Prince — and interact with students during the lesson, which involved combining math and history to break a code used once on the U.S.S. Yorktown.
Prince is a member of the governor’s teacher advisory cabinet, and Haslam is planning to visit many of them to learn their strategies for connecting with students and improving education in Tennessee.
“I think it's critical to have people who stand in front of classrooms every day to help us make decisions,” Haslam said. CONTINUE READING
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Important Upcoming Dates
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- Wednesday, February 8 – Friday, February 10: Progress reports
- Monday, February 20: President’s Day (Schools closed)
- Thursday, March 9: Early Dismissal (3 hour, 15-minute day for students)
- Friday, March 10: End of 3rd nine weeks
- Thursday, March 16: 3rd nine weeks report cards
- Tuesday, March 21: Parent / Teacher Conferences (grades PK-5)
- Thursday, March 23: Parent / Teacher Conferences (grades 6-12)
- Monday, March 27 - Friday, March 31: Spring Break (Schools closed)
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Rutherford County Schools is an award-winning school district comprised of 46 schools and more than 43,000 students. The district's mission is to empower today's students to grasp tomorrow's opportunities. Got questions? Contact Communications and Community Relations Coordinator James Evans at [email protected].
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