Now in its fifth year, the KIPP Master Teacher program grew to 60+ active and former Master Teachers.

The program is designed to identify, reward, and learn from KIPP Nashville’s most impactful teachers. Teachers have the opportunity to grow and learn through this in-classroom program while also deepening a shared vision and raising our collective impact on our KIPPsters. Master Teachers at KIPP Nashville have demonstrated exceptional results with students at our schools, show strong overall mastery of the Instructional Excellence Rubric, uphold the core values of Growth, Team, and Shine, and enthusiastically open their doors to colleagues from across the region, allowing others to learn from the best of the best.

Now in its ninth year, this two-year program develops the next generation of leaders in KIPP Nashville.

Each participant embeds as an Assistant Principal at one of our schools and works closely with their colleagues in the cohort throughout the year, building a leadership pipeline that reflects our students and families.

Two KIPP Nashville Directors of Operations received the national KIPP Heart & SOL Award in recognition of their work to help students show up, stay engaged, and thrive in school every day. Both Sydney McGhee, KIPP Kirkpatrick Director of Operations, and Christina Scott, KIPP Antioch Global High School Director of Operations, developed the systems and the relational opportunities to support students and their families on their attendance journeys. From predictive efforts to intervene with students before their absence leads to learning challenges to rewarding students for high attendance, both schools saw impressive attendance improvement for their communities – ranging from nearly 6% increase at Global to nearly 20% increase for Kirkpatrick year over year.