Successful Change Helps Guide The Future
While the achievements of 2020-2021 are to be celebrated, they were a result of much hard work and willingness to change and be flexible.
Physical education, art, music and recess are still offered weekly to scholars, with scheduling adjustments made that now provide time in Emerald Academy’s new library, where small groups of scholars gather daily to read and more easily digest the text they’re learning. And thanks to a grant from Truist for additional reading supplies, every Emerald Academy scholar is working to read one million words by the end of the current school year and earn the right to be in the “Millionaires’ Club.”
Additional intervention is being provided in fifth through eighth grades for scholars who need extra academic assistance to stay on track, and scholar coaches proactively meet with students twice per week who are struggling behaviorally.
Emerald Academy remains committed to meeting the following goals for the 2021-2022 school year:
• Growth: 70% of scholars will meet their growth goals on the NWEA MAP assessment.
• Achievement: A majority of scholars will perform on grade level.
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BECAUSE OF YOU: Emerald Academy is unequivocally the top-performing urban middle school in Knoxville, based on the percentage of scholars performing at or above grade level.