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Tennessee ELA advisory committee approves revised K–12 standards and asks leadership to draft executive summary
Summary
The Tennessee State Board of Education’s English Language Arts Standards Recommendation Committee voted unanimously (7–0, one absence) to approve revised K–12 ELA standards and instructed the leadership team to draft an executive summary for the State Board reflecting the committee’s guiding principles and requests to districts.
The Tennessee State Board of Education’s English Language Arts Standards Recommendation Committee met electronically and on a roll-call vote approved the committee’s revised K–12 English language arts standards. The committee voted 7–0, with one member absent, to adopt the revisions and adjourned until further notice.
Committee leadership said the revisions were intended to make Tennessee standards clearer and more consistent across grade bands while preserving a progression of rigor from elementary through high school. Members directed the leadership team to prepare an executive summary to accompany the package sent to the State Board and the department, and asked staff to accept and compile committee input for that summary before final transmittal.
The committee’s motion to have the leadership team draft the executive summary passed on a recorded roll call (seven ayes, zero noes, one absent). At the subsequent adoption vote on the standards themselves the roll call recorded the following responses: Miss Baird, aye; Miss Dockery, aye; Mister Hilliard, aye; Miss Nao, aye; Miss Singletary, absent; Doctor Stout, aye; Miss Winters, aye; Chair Kernighus, aye. The chair announced the motion passed and declared the Standards Recommendation Committee adjourned.
The committee also instructed staff to consult with the office of legal counsel on process questions about member input on the executive summary and to present the leadership‑team draft to the full State Board along with the revised standards and supporting materials. The committee’s work included edits and consensus on glossary definitions, reference lists, elective course guidance and several wording changes in reading, writing and speaking standards that staff said will be reflected in the packet to the State Board.
The committee met electronically to accommodate members across the state and to advance time‑sensitive agenda items; staff read a formal statement of necessity at the start of the meeting and reminded members not to add off‑hour comments to collaborative Google documents for sunshine‑law compliance.
