Quality & Growth

Designed to support

Our Existing School Services are designed to support current charter administrators and educators in achieving and sustaining achievement and success for their respective schools.
Quality School Support
BoardSmart Certification
Board Training
TCSC Job Board
Nashville Charter Collaborative

Quality School Support

All families deserve to actualize a high quality public education that will provide the foundation for future success and growth. We also believe that we, our schools, districts and other committed partners in this work are equally responsible for ensuring quality and excellence as the standard for the services we provide our students.

BoardSmart

BoardSmart: Board and Governance Training & Certification
  • Board certification ensures that all members involved in making influential decisions are knowledgeable and qualified. TCSC provides charter boards across Tennessee with impactful training and certification opportunities on a yearly basis to better support the operations, development, and sustainability of high-quality schools. (Note: Per TN law, TCSC is required to certify that boards have completed board training requirements annually.)
  • Audience: Charter school board members
  • Contact: Marceia Ashe, marceia@tnchartercenter.org

Board Training

Board Training Open NOW

For the 2024-25 cycle, all governing board members must complete their training requirements by June 30, 2025. New board members have one calendar year to fulfill their training from their start date.

  • New Board Members: 6 training hours
  • Returning Board Members: 4 training hours

If you are interested in non-member TCSC Governing Board Training at a cost of $1250, please sign up for our Board on Track Membership here. If you would like to become a TCSC Member, fill out our membership interest form here.

TCSC Job Board

  • TCSC hosts a collective job board for posting career opportunities in charter schools across the state. Fin your next great education career opportunity on the job board here.
  • Audience: Existing charter schools

Nashville Charter Collaborative

The Nashville Charter Collaborative offers leaders of the city's high achievement and high growth public charter schools a structure to work together on areas of shared need, such as professional development and recruitment of high-quality teachers. Collectively, members of the Collaborative believe that education transforms lives and that every child in Nashville has the right to a high-quality public education. In the fall of 2018, the Collaborative formalized as a program of the Tennessee Charter School Center to provide the member schools with an official structure to continue growing their work together.
Check out the Nashville Charter Collaborative website here.