Williamson College (Franklin, Smyrna) has launched a new publishing division, Williamson College Press, with its first release a fascinating, modern heresy non-fiction book by author R. L. Solberg called “Torahism: Are Christians Required to Keep the Law of Moses?”
The Education Foundation for Williamson County (EFWC) has announced the launching of the Boost ACT Academy, designed to increase American College Test (ACT) exam scores for area students.
Following months of training at each school and the district office, the Franklin Special School District has been designated a Heart Safe School District by the Project ADAM team at Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and Williamson Inc. celebrated by honoring Hampton Inn & Suites in Cool Springs for being one of the Williamson County School District’s Transition II job training locations.
Many adult sports fans would give anything to meet a National Football League player, but a group of middle schoolers were the lucky ones Tuesday when four Tennessee Titans visited Freedom Middle School to present a $10,000 check and promote healthy eating and exercise.
Students filed into the gym filled with music, lights and oversized milk bottles and took their seats on the bleachers, unsure of what was about to happen. Some of the kids looked apprehensive, some hopped and skipped excitedly across the room.
As Rhett Bryan of Titans Radio stepped up to the mic, he explained that Freedom Middle is one of this year’s eight recipients of the NFL Fuel Up to Play 60 Hometown Grant in Middle Tennessee. The Dairy Alliance, Tennessee Titans, NFL and the National Dairy Council teamed up to promote healthy habits in schools across the region.
Bryan welcomed out Titans safety Dane Cruikshank, placekicker Ryan Succop, and cornerbacks Tye Smith and LeShaun Sims, who circled the gym, tossing Titans T-shirts into the crowd. Mascot T-Rac and Titans cheerleaders joined the party as well.
The players joined three members of the crowd — two students and a teacher — in playing a variety of games that promoted physical activity and healthy eating habits. The first was a quiz game, where contestants had to answer questions like “What are the five main food groups?” and “What’s the most important meal of the day?”
Players then engaged in a series of 60-second challenges with the contestants — jump rope, apple stacking and a milk carton relay — and answered questions about their day-to-day lives and careers. They shared their usual breakfast (smoothies were popular among the four), what their careers would be if not football (from mental health professional to business and finance), and Succop shared the importance of studying hard.
“In order for us to do what we wanted to do, which is play football, we needed to do well in school, so it’s really important to have good habits — athletics, academics — so that you can be successful in life,” he said.
The players and grant sponsors then presented the school with a check and signed football and ushered some lucky students out of the gym to ask the athletes their own questions.
For more information on the Fuel Up to Play 60 grant, visit fueluptoplay60.com.
Battle Ground Academy is hosting Open House admissions events for its Lower, Middle and Upper Schools on Oct. 23 and 27.
Report cards for the first grading period at Williamson County Schools will be available in Skyward on Oct. 18, and high school parents and students will notice a change with their child’s grade point averages (GPAs) and student transcripts.
Dr. Preston Brown (Class of 1987) and Deana Hood (Class of 1989) have been named to the Battle Ground Academy Board of Trustees, Head of School Will Kesler announced recently.
The Battle Ground Academy Theatre Department will present “Rumors”by Neil Simon as its fall play, with performances on Oct. 10 and 12 at 7 p.m. and Oct. 13 at 2 p.m.
Battle Ground Academy on Saturday inducted new members into its Alumni, Sports and Faculty Hall of Fame. In addition, the school honors a distinguished young alumna in a ceremony at the Hilton Franklin Cool Springs as part of the school’s homecoming weekend festivities.
Middle Tennessee State University is in the midst of its eighth annual True Blue Tour — its signature admissions effort covering 14 cities in four states to meet prospective students, their parents, high school counselors and community college staff.
The city of Brentwood Engineering Department is hosting an environmental education day at the Deerwood Arboretum on Oct. 2.
Members from the Tennessee Army National Guard recently presented Columbia State Community College with the Minuteman Award, recognizing the college for allowing students to defer tuition and fees until the end of the semester when the costs can be paid through the Tennessee Support, Trainin…
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Another Williamson County school is joining the nation’s elite.
The Williamson County Commission Education Committee met Monday to discuss a single resolution: an increase in the rate of the controversial educational impact fee.
Pastors for Tennessee Children will host a discussion next month about how faith leaders can support their local public schools.
At 10:50 p.m. on Saturday, the Franklin Police Department responded to Centennial High School after receiving several reports of a juvenile with a gun.
Dr. Preston Brown, Class of ’87, and Deana Hood, Class of ’89, have been named to the Battle Ground Academy Board of Trustees, Head of School Will Kesler announced recently.
Williamson, Inc.’s annual education summit was all about anticipating the needs of the workforce and preparing children through innovative programs and methods.
The Franklin Special District School Board of Education met on Monday to hear an update on construction plans for a new districtwide performing arts center and gymnasium on the campus of Poplar Grove School.
After a long debate during Thursday’s work session, the Williamson County Schools Board of Education decided to approve parameters for the zoning of the new middle school on Henpeck Lane in Franklin.
Battle Ground Academy has big ideas to give back to the community and to the Earth and is beginning to watch some of them grow.
Franklin Synergy Bank and Morning Pointe of Franklin aided Franklin Special School District students with a school supply drive recently.
Popular Beatles tribute band The WannaBeatles will headline Come Together: Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Tribute on Thursday, Oct. 3, at Franklin Classical School’s Generations Auditorium, 408 Church Street in downtown Franklin.
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