KCS_EPP

@KCS_EPP coaching visits in Grainger & Union County yesterday: individual feedback in DE Welding by Mr Cornett 🔥, Mr Hodge’s Dessert 🧁Madness bracket in Cul Arts, Ms Sexton’s students learning abt bones🦴 in Med Terminology, and Ms Holmes is digging into the nervous system.

Between 🌸 spring break & a snow storm ❄️ the @KCS_EPP was busy yesterday! I went to Lenoir City & Loudon Co to see Mr Murphy teach abt data life cycles & Mr Boyd’s students worked on the day’s newscast. In the pm @judy_siebert taught Cohort 5 abt how to best engage students 👏🏻

On yesterday’s @KCS_EPP coaching visit to Alcoa, Maryville & Blount County: hair dying, pizza baking, blueprint drawing and infectious diseases analysis for regional hospitals. These new teachers bring the real work world into their classrooms! 👏🏻

Our KCS EPP has had ‘initial approval’ since 2021 & underwent a rigorous audit process in 2025 called TN Comprehensive Review. Our program met all standards & was granted full approval in today’s State Board of Education meeting!! THANK YOU!! 🎉 tn.gov/sbe/meetings/m…

Made my way out to Hamblen Co Schools yesterday to coach Ms Lamb (Cul Arts), Ms Barnett (Health), Ms Bennett (Cosmo), Mr Clark (Construction), & Mr Waddell (Comp Sc). I loved seeing their students interested & engaged and that some of the teachers had new equipment or spaces 👏🏻

I got to see Mr Ellis (Culinary, AE) 🥗, Ms Campbell (Marketing, Central) 🏬, Ms Mitchell (Health Sc) Stethoskop 🩺 & Mr Quinton (AV, both Powell) 📸 in action this week. They were engaging students in real workplace problems, like running a store or taking viral signs. 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻

EPP Instructor @judy_siebert recently visited Mr Garland, Mr Graves, Ms Andrews, Mr Cox as well as Mr McMahan & Mr Blanton (not pic’d) in Knox & Claiborne Counties to see how they’re implementing in their own classrooms what they are learning in the EPP. @CTE4KCS

We are working closely with our candidates this week in both coaching visits and during Cohort 5’s EPP Learning Day. @UllaCarr saw Mr Henry 🚗 , Ms Rhodes 🩺 & Mr Huettel (not pic’d) @southdoylehs yesterday. @judy_siebert leads C5 in engagement & questioning strategies today.

It is wonderful to see our former EPP candidates do great things in their schools. The Loudon County School Board recently recognized Mr. Preston, Mr. Webster & Mr Walden for leading their students to win 1st place at the Builders Exchange competition. Congratulations to all!! 🎉

The last EPP Learning Day for Cohort 4 is a wrap! 🎉 Instructor @judy_siebert led the candidates through class activities and group work exploring topics around Questioning and Problem-Based-Learning in more depth. They also worked on their portfolios. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Picked up @KCS_EPP coaching visits again for the semester after several snow days caused a delay. These 3 teachers will graduate this Spring: Mr Mandell (CJ at HVA), Ms Pipkin (Health Science) & Mr Hicks (IT, Both at Bearden HS). 🎓🎉

Happy 2026! 🎉 We are back at it - tonight with Cohort 5 learning about how the use of instructional technology can enhance the student experience. @judy_siebert

Left #VisionCTE25 inspired & hopefully inspired others. Keynote speaker Amanda Brinkman had great points on living a purposeful life. Lynn Brown, Janet Flannery, Ron Blaylock & I presented on LEA EPPs in TN. I was also honored to join two panels on the CTE teacher pipeline.

@judy_siebert & @UllaCarr enjoyed running into current & former EPP candidates at ACTE Vision 2025 in Nashville last week: Shelly Rednour, Tim No, Mark Buckner & there were certainly more! Also there: our partners Chris Bailey from SREB & Ms Conrad from Univ of Central MO 😊

Blount Co, Maryville & Alcoa were yesterday’s @KCS_EPP coaching visit destinations. We pondered Ms Alexander’s new classroom layout, Mr McMurray prepped Ss for the dual enrollment test, Mr Sutton’s ‘Christmas Bakery’ was in full swing, & Ms Dills’ Ss looked at Advanced Directives

Our @KCS_EPP instructor @judy_siebert was out for coaching visits at Fulton HS & Campbell Co HS recently, observing Ms Anderson (Health Sc), Mr Skeans (Crim Just) & Mr Baird (Constr.). In follow up’s, the teachers’ strengths are highlighted & goals set for continuous improvement!

This week’s @KCS_EPP coaching visits happened in Union, Grainger, Cocke and Loudon Counties as well as in Lenoir City. Our candidates teach anything from Business to Welding and are getting our TN kids ready for the workforce! 💚

Attended my first CBExchange Conference this week & am leaving inspired! Higher Ed, K-12, workforce & other experts came together to discuss competency based education in sessions on Employer Partnerships, Talent Management, CTE, AI, Teacher Prep, Apprenticeships & more.

So proud of our current KCS EPP candidates Mr Clark & Ms Lamb and our past graduate Mr Hatfield for collaborating with their @hamblencte colleagues to build and run this awesome coffee cart-winning 2nd place at the Battle of the Build!! 👏🏻👏🏻

Mr Hagen 📸, Ms Robinson🩸, Ms Hutchinson 👮🏼(not pic’d), and Mr No🔧 were on my @KCS_EPP coaching list today. Guest speakers from industry & engaging their students in hands on assignments is nothing new for these new teachers-That’s how they roll! 😎