Education Committee’s
Web portal for adult education, jobs, financial literacy, and literacy
Education Committee Chairman: Dwight Hunter (email)
Tennessee PTA Partnership Organization
Kid Central TN
www.kidcentraltn.com
One stop shop for all things parents and children: Health, Education, Development Guides, Family Support, Tennessee Services. Search here first for anything about families, parenting, and children. (This is a one-stop website.)
Be a Learning Hero
Our partner through National PTA providing parenting information four times a year.
bealearninghero.org
Literacy websites
Adult Literacy Program – Cumberland Adult Reading Council
www.cumberlandliteracy.org
The Cumberland Adult Reading Council is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that helps adults to read and write. We also help adults learn English as a second language. We are the only program in Cumberland County Tennessee offering free one-on-one tutoring for adults (18 and over).
Chattanooga Basics
www.chattanoogabasics.org
The Chattanooga Basics are five evidence-based parenting and care-giving principles that can benefit children from all backgrounds. A broad range of Chattanooga organizations and community members will soon be helping to ensure that every parent and caregiver is fully supported in using the Chattanooga Basics practices in everyday life. The basics are maximize love, talk-sing-point, count-group-compare, explore through movement, and read/discuss stories.
Dollar General Literacy Foundation
www2.dollargeneral.com/dgliteracy
More than 30 million adults in the United States read at the lowest level of literacy. The Dollar General Literacy Foundation was established in 1993 in honor of Dollar General’s co-founder, J.L. Turner, who was functionally illiterate with only a third grade education.
Dolly Parton Imagination Library
usa.imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a program that mails out children a free book each month from birth up until 5 years old. These are high-quality books that are chosen by experts in the education and writing field and are based on the child’s age.
Literacy Mid-South
www.literacymidsouth.org
Our vision is 100% literacy in the Mid-South. Literacy Mid-South (LMS) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide literacy resources to learners of all ages and backgrounds. Somewhere between 20% to 30% of adults in the Memphis metro area are functionally illiterate. That means more than just unemployment — their minds are unused and their dreams are unrealized.
Ride for Reading
www.rideforreading.org
To help children in low-income areas become healthy and literate
Read 20
read20.org
READ 20 is a Hamilton County public-private partnership whose mission is to create a community of readers by promoting the importance of reading with children at least 20 minutes a day or more.
Read20 Book Club – Crissy Haslam
www.tn.gov/firstlady/topic/about-read20
The purpose of the First Lady’s READ20 Book Club is to give Tennessee families a fun goal of reading together with their children for 20 minutes every day.
Financial Literacy websites
Junior Achievement
www.juniorachievement.org
JA’s volunteer-delivered, kindergarten-12th grade programs foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire students to dream big and reach their potential.
La Paz Chattanooga
www.lapazchattanooga.org
The mission of La Paz is to guide, connect and strengthen Chattanooga’s Latino community through Advocacy, Education, and Inclusion. One of the earliest needs that La Paz recognized in its history was the importance of educating the growing Latino population of the area on ways to thrive in a new cultural environment. Through culturally specific programming in the Latino Family Resource Center, La Paz helps its Latino clients learn how to live and be a part of the local community.
Jobs/Careers websites
Tennessee Labor & Workforce Development
www.jobs4tn.gov
Search for jobs in Tennessee.
EngineerGirl
https://www.engineergirl.org
The EngineerGirl website is designed to bring national attention to the exciting opportunities that engineering represents for girls and women. Why girls and women? Because despite an increase in female participation in many traditionally male-dominated professions such as medicine and law, women remain grossly under-represented in engineering.
Tennessee Electronic Library
tntel.tnsos.org
Free access to great resources for Tennesseans. The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is an online library with access to career information, magazine-journal-newspaper articles, essays, practice tests, e-books, primary source materials, and more! TEL is available free of charge, 24/7 from any computer with access to the internet.
Adult Education websites
Tennessee Reconnect
www.tnreconnect.gov
Whether it’s time to get serious about returning to school or you’re starting to plan for your undergrad adventure, we’ve got you covered. Tennessee Reconnect is an initiative to help more of our state’s adults enter higher education to gain new skills, advance in the workplace, and fulfill lifelong dreams of completing a degree or credential.
GED (HiSET)
www.tn.gov/workforce/topic/high-school-testing
You never finished high school, nor are you attending another school.
Drive to 55 Alliance
driveto55.org
Tennessee’s new Drive to 55 Alliance is an active and rapidly growing alliance of private sector partners, leaders and non-profits working together in support of the state’s Drive to 55 initiative to equip 55 percent of Tennesseans with a college degree or certificate by 2025.
Mentoring websites
Project Renaissance
projectrenaissancenashville.org
Project Renaissance and its team are dedicated to ensuring all Nashville students have access to a high-quality education. In Nashville, and nationally, there is an urgent need for more excellent teachers. Research shows the classroom teacher is the most important in-school factor for improving student achievement.
Chattanooga Mentoring Collective
www.mentorchatt.org
The Chattanooga Mentoring Collective is partnering with The National Mentoring Partnership, at www.mentoring.org. MENTOR is the unifying champion for
expanding quality youth mentoring relationships in the United States.