Back to school with Nashville's teachers

This Is Nashville

It’s back-to-school season! Big box stores have put out special school supplies displays, and the airwaves are full of commercials for backpacks, clothes and markers.

It’s a pretty familiar phenomenon, but it’s also impossible to deny that a lot has changed about education over the past few years, from the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic to new laws that impact what can be taught in the classroom. What is this time of year — this year — like for Middle Tennessee’s teachers? To learn more, we're joined by educators and MNPS officials.

But first, we'll hear from our newsroom about the results of yesterday's election.

Guests:

• Blaise Gainey, WPLN News political reporter

• Julia Ritchey, WPLN News afternoon news editor

• Laura Delgado, Program Director of the Pionero Scholars Program at the Lipscomb College of Education

• Daven Oglesby, exceptional education teacher at Lakeview Elementary Design Center

• Susan Strasinger, teacher at Hillsboro High School

• Michele Sheriff, President of the Metropolitan Nashville Education Association

• Dr. Mason Bellamy, Chief of Academics and Schools for Metro Nashville Public Schools