Metro Nashville School Board says Dr. Battle met every expectation in the 2022/2023 school year

Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) Board of Education says Director Dr. Adrienne Battle met every expectation for the 2022-23 school year.Board members provided that positive evaluation at Tuesday night’s meeting.This year’s evaluation included specific academic goals related to improvements in literacy, numeracy, social emotional learning (SEL), and transition outcomes. The board expressed satisfaction with Battle’s work over the previous school year on each.“Dr. Battle did receive a final rating from each of the board members on each of the focused outcomes,” said board member Erin O’Hara Block. “Dr. Battle met, with evidence from the board, the outcome of literacy met, for numeracy met, for social emotional learning met, and met for transitions.”

Evaluation Process

As part of the process, Dr. Battle completed quarterly self-reports and the board reviewed those reports and then provided feedback.The director’s self-evaluation included data on student outcomes on benchmark tests, the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP), Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS), attendance, implementation evidence and related results, and review of progress for related signature initiatives.The board’s evaluation process requires each member to review the evaluation data and then rate Dr. Battle’s performance. The review also included evidence members saw throughout the self-report and evaluation along with specific evidence from board meetings.Board members then provided Battle with a final rating for each focus with a breakdown of the highlights that led to that result.Board members cited the growth projections as key evidence for Batlle meeting expectations.For literacy, 58.9 percent of students met or exceeded growth projections while 56.2 percent of students met or exceeded growth projections in numeracy. Testing scores also increased over the course of the 2022-23 school year.MNPS additionally saw more student engagement with support from advocacy and peace centers along with increased attendance rates. The district met its attendance goals with 91.8 percent.“We initially set up this model so it could be a continuous cycle of improvement and we wanted the feed loop throughout the year for this process to happen and we have seen very positive results from Dr. Battle in the feedback loop as we continue to ask questions and as we continue to hold this evaluation process. So I really appreciate the work Dr. Battle and her team has done as well as the board has done to help us continue this model,” said board member Berthena Nabaa-McKinney.