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June 02, 2020
School Closures Cause Growing Crisis For Families
The social, emotional and physical needs of Tennessee’s students have intensified as stay at-home orders and long-term school closures have added to the economic stress and lack of services that already challenged the state’s most vulnerable families.
August 27, 2019
Tungett and Cody working to improve school attendance
Two new faces in the Cocke County School System this year are those of Holly Tungett and Kenny Cody, Site Coordinators for the non-profit Communities in Schools in Tennessee, whose focus is to help chronically absent students overcome obstacles to their school attendance.
February 21, 2018
EDUCATION CONVERSATIONS: Community Schools with Alison McArthur and Hank Clay
Listen to the latest episode of Education Conversations to hear Hank Clay and Alison McArthur discuss the community schools model and how CISTN and Community Achieves are transforming education here in Nashville.
February 07, 2018
Communities In Schools of Tennessee is Working in Memphis
Today, CISTN serves 10,000 students at 20 schools in the Shelby County Schools and Achievement Schools District. It’s what Sonji Branch, executive director of CISTN at Memphis, calls tremendous and unprecedented growth in a short time, but something that also speaks to why CISTN’s efforts are needed here in Memphis.
August 15, 2017
Seeing generational poverty as a condition that can be treated
Before she became a Program Manager at our Memphis affiliate she was a single mom living in poverty, looking for childcare for her children. She was under-educated, unemployed and unfulfilled. But Nataline Purdy was a woman full of potential and promise and dreams.
April 19, 2017
Nashville community completes more than 32k pushups to support education
On April 1, Communities In Schools of Tennessee (CISTN) raised over $22,000 during its inaugural Nashville Pushup Challenge fundraiser. The funds will go toward dropout prevention strategies for at-risk Nashville students.
January 07, 2017
David Waters: 'Slingshot' takes aim at chronic poverty
Communities in Schools of TN at Memphis selected to join Slingshot Memphis, a philanthropic venture that takes aim at chronic poverty by presenting it as an investment opportunity, along with Advance Memphis, LeBonheur's Nurse-Family Partnership and the Salvation Army's Purdue Center of Hope.
July 14, 2016
Meet Communities In Schools of Tennessee State Board Member, Malika Anderson
Malika Anderson is the superintendent of the Achievement School District, where she oversees all schools, district-managed and charter-operated, in their turnaround from performing in the bottom 5% in the state to performing in the top 25% in Tennessee.
July 06, 2016
Communities In Schools of TN is a finalist in the 2016 Skanska Educational Enhancement Salute to Excellence Award
Each fall, CNM honors Middle Tennessee nonprofits with the Salute to Excellence awards dinner – the largest nonprofit awards event in the country. As a part of CNM’s 30th anniversary year, the 2016 Salute to Excellence event is building up to be the largest event yet. Save the date – this year’s Salute will take place on October 18, 2016 at the Omni Nashville Hotel.
Communities In Schools of TN is honored to be a finalist for the Skanska Educational Enhancement Award along with Conexión Américas and Homework Hotline.
Click the button below to see a full list of the finalists and read more about the event.