Ford Motor Company Fund today announced that Nashville, Tenn. has been named as the nation’s first Ford Next Generation Learning Model Community.
Nashville is the first Ford Next Generation Learning Model Community to organize study visits to help teams from around the country transform their high schools and better prepare students for colleges and careers. Over the last three years, more than 1,000 educators and business people from 29 states have visited Metro Nashville Public Schools to tour The Academies of Nashville.
Ford Fund also announced a $25,000 grant to support The Academies of Nashville in development of a series of modules for new teachers, administrators and business partners to explain the Ford Next Generation Learning framework and its relationship to The Academies of Nashville’s strategic plan. This professional development will be created, piloted and refined in support of sustainability of the academies, and will be shared with the national Ford Next Generation Learning network.