Facts About Our School
Year School Built 1936
Building Addition 1954
Square Footage 21,400
Grades Served PK-6
School Hours 7:30 - 3:30
School Colors Royal Blue, Gold & White
Principal:
Dr. Sharon Chaney - sharon.chaney@mnps.org
District 8 School Board Representative:
David A. Fox - david@fox4schools.com
District 34 Metro Council Representative:
Carter Todd - carter.todd@nashville.gov
What Makes Our School Unique?
The ENCORE Program is offered one-half day each week as a co-curricular general education learning experience for intellectually gifted or academically talented students. Because participation is optional, the district does not provide transportation. Classes are center-based in geographic clusters to facilitate parents’ transportation arrangements.
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The Preschool-aged Gifted Program is a special education opportunity for intellectually gifted children.
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Enhanced Option and Design Center ENCORE Classes for grades pre-K-4 are housed at Bellshire, Buena Vista, Robert E. Lillard at King’s Lane, Kirkpatrick, Park Avenue, Glenn, Napier, Fall-Hamilton, Warner, Caldwell and Bordeaux.
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ENCORE Early Identification (EID) offers opportunities for language enrichment and the development of higher level thinking abilities to students in targeted schools.
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Grades K-4 ENCORE, staffed by four itinerate teachers of gifted students, is centered at Eakin, Edison, Granbery, Harpeth Valley, Jones, Julia Green, Andrew Jackson, Dodson, Hull-Jackson, Westmeade, Percy Priest, Sylvan Park, Stanford, Carter-Lawrence, and Brookmeade.
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ENCORE centers serving grades 5-6 are located at Bellevue, Brookmeade, Croft, DuPont Hadley, Edison, John Early, East Literature, Haynes, Head, H.G. Hill, Meigs, Oliver, Shayne, Stanford, Two Rivers, and West End.
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An innovative technology initiative enhances all classes.
Who Attends Our School?
The ENCORE Program serves gifted and talented students in pre-kindergarten through grade six throughout Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. Academically talented students achieve a stanine average of 8 in composite reading and math, an academic average of A or B, and a score two standard deviations above the mean on the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test. |
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What Does Our School Offer?
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Building Big Partnerships with WGBH, WNPT, and ASCE
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ENCORE Early Enrichment for Identification
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ENCORE Invention Convention
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ENCORE Schoolwide Enrichment at King’s Lane, Bellshire, Napier, Glenn, Fall-Hamilton, Bordeaux,
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Hands-On Chemistry
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Integrated Technology
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International Future Problem Solving
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Park Avenue, Buena Vista, Warner, Caldwell, and Kirkpatrick
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School without Walls
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Storytelling
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Voyage of the Mimi I and II
Community Partners
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Community Resources integrated across the ENCORE curriculum include the Adventure Science Center, Belle Meade Plantation, Travellers Rest, Mansker’s Station, the Hermitage, Old Hickory Dam, the State Department of Archaeology, the Nashville Public Library, Fisk University, Juvenile Court, Warner Park Nature Center, Tennessee Wildlife Reserve, Long Hunter State Park, Cumberland River Camp, the Parthenon, TPAC, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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EPAC (ENCORE Parent Advisory Council) involves parents in all aspects of the ENCORE curriculum, ENCORE program improvement, and understanding the nature/needs of their children.
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Parents as Teachers have presented classes on: computer technology, photography, cooking, Native Americans, sailing, oceanography, songwriting and recording, cultural diversity, sculpture, geology, camping, scuba diving, medicine, engineering, and archaeology.
PENCIL Partners
PENCIL Foundation, a nonprofit organization, links community resources with Nashville public schools. A PENCIL Partner is a business or other community organization that teams up with a Metro school to volunteer time and donate resources that promote student success.
Geographically located in the Hillsboro Cluster: Hillsboro Cluster Map (2008-2009)
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