As you gear up for the upcoming holidays, don’t forget to save the date for the Momentum Memphis SCS Facilities Feast on December 17th from 6:00 – 7:30 pm at Crosstown Concourse in the Church Health Center Community Room. The current condition of many Shelby County Schools is unacceptable, which means that our children are using […]
Shelby County Schools (SCS) is developing a first-time-ever comprehensive facilities plan to present to the community and the Shelby County Commission. Momentum Memphis, which is a project of Stand for Children, has partnered with Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope (MICAH) and 90ONE Memphis to create an SCS Facilities Survey to gather critical input about school […]
Nothing in teacher training prepared me for how trauma would creep into my classroom. During my first year teaching, Martin spent most afternoons with me, cracking jokes as he helped grade homework. Then in April, this bubbly, boisterous boy found me in our library. He stared from the doorway, silent and solemn. After a lingering […]
For over a year, Stand for Children, MICAH, and 9-0-One have been working both separately and together to define occasions for improving educational opportunities for students in Shelby County. We have talked with Shelby County Schools (SCS) administrators, SCS Board Members, County Commissioners, the County Mayor, parents, students, and other community stakeholders and have outlined […]
When it comes to the relationship between school facilities and academic achievement, study after study seems to confirm what we already know: that the quality and condition of the physical space has an effect on students’ motivation and performance. Simply put, it is difficult to concentrate on learning while immersed in an environment that is too hot or too cold, has […]
Since 2015, the ACE Awareness Foundation has been working to educate the Greater Memphis community about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), as well as supporting policies and practices that can prevent and mitigate the effects of toxic stress. This work is incredibly important because ACEs are unbelievably common. Over half of the Memphis population has experienced at […]
