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Tennessee ELA panel approves wording changes for speech and communication electives
Summary
A Tennessee State Board of Education committee approved wording changes to elective speech and communication standards — including substituting 'perspective' for 'point of view' and specifying use of digital tools — by consensus during a virtual Oct. 2025 meeting; the committee formally recorded the meeting as the minutes by roll-call vote.
The Tennessee State Board of Education's English Language Arts Standards Recommendation Committee (SRC) approved wording changes to elective speech and communication standards during a virtual meeting in October 2025.
The committee, meeting electronically because a fiscal quorum could not assemble in Nashville, recorded the meeting and voted to accept the recording as the minutes, a motion the committee approved by roll call with six aye votes and no nos. The committee then reviewed elective standards in speech and communications and adopted multiple wording edits by unanimous consent or “hearing no objections.”
The panel moved through Speech and Communication (S C) standards 6–11, agreeing to small but substantive edits intended to clarify expectations for…
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