Location: Nashville, TN
Website: STRIVE Collegiate
Enrollment: 351
Demographics: NCES Data
STRIVE Collegiate Academy is a mid-sized charter school in Nashville, TN, that serves 351 students in grades 5–8.
After founding the school in 2015, founder and principal LaKendra Butler attended Relay’s National Principal Academy Fellowship (NPAF) program to build instructional leadership skills and learn best practices for coaching and supporting teachers.
Butler quickly realized that to create a sustainable culture of feedback and best support both teachers and leaders, they needed a system to help manage their observation and feedback processes.
“Relay helped us put more structure around coaching and teacher growth. We took that structure (aka, rubrics) and put it into the [SchoolMint] system and that let us simply and honestly link what was happening in the classroom to the components of the rubrics. Linking observations directly to the rubrics was powerful for our teachers.”
— LaKendra Butler, STRIVE Collegiate Academy Founder
Total Touchpoints to Date: 1,009
Meetings Held: 340
Action Steps Given (with approx. 60% mastered to date): 180
Monthly Goal Met for Coaching Expectations: 81%