Ashley Aldridge Wilson acknowledged there were a few anxious moments when she had trouble getting into the Zoom video conference. Wilson, the principal at Nolan Elementary School in Signal Mountain, was attempting to access the video platform in late May for a regularly scheduled Tennessee Principals Association (TPA) board meeting, for whom she serves as…
UTC alum chosen as Hamilton County Principal of the Year
Brent Eller, UTC graduate and principal at East Hamilton School, is Teacher of the Year in the school system.
Alumna named Hamilton County Teacher of the Year
Michelle Bailey teaches kindergarten and first-grade students in a multi-age classroom at Thrasher Elementary and was named a 2020 Teacher of the Year for Hamilton County Schools.
UTC Teaching and Learning Institute visited by U.S. Department of Education exec
Official from the U.S. Department of Education pays a visit to the UTC Teaching and Learning Institute at Tyner Academy.
Co-creator of mobile classroom, Colleen Ryan selected as Toyota Family Teacher of the Year
Colleen Ryan, who graduated from UTC in 2015, had been selected as Toyota Family Teacher of the Year for 2019, an award open to teachers across the country.
Workshops use manufacturing concepts to improve education
Improving education through manufacturing efficiency ideas
UTC joins effort to improve arts education in county schools
The Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child initiative hopes to bring the same level of arts education — theater, visual, dance, music — to students across the Hamilton County school system.
UTC students’ project to help high schoolers succeed in college
The project researched data from Hamilton County schools to get an idea of whether a high school student had a good chance of succeeding in college—or not.
UTC joins Future Ready Institutes at Signal Mountain, Ooltewah
The UTC School of Education and Honors College are working with Signal Mountain Middle/High School and Ooltewah High School in their Future Ready Institutes.
Le Andrea Ware: A principal with principles
LeAndrea Ware, a UTC graduate, has been principal at the Howard School since 2018 and has been making changes since arriving.