Memphis City Schools is a diverse, urban school district recognized nationally for its commitment to improve student achievement through innovative educational reform models. Most notably, Memphis City Schools was one of three school districts and one coalition of charter schools to receive an Intensive Partnership grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to launch its groundbreaking Teacher Effectiveness Initiative.
The TEI will be the foundation for success of the Memphis City School District leadership's aggressive reform agenda that is already underway. There are four essential components to the TEI:
(1) measuring and defining effective teaching;
(2) improving the ways that we recruit, hire, and retain teachers;
(3) better supporting, utilizing, and compensating existing teachers; and
(4) improving the surrounding context for teachers.
MCS has strong community ties, state-of-the-art learning facilities and some of the best schools in the state and nation.
