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132 - Reinventing Tennessee Public Education :: Dr. Grant Bell
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In 2013, I met Dr. Grant Bell just as he was beginning his current role as Principal of Springfield Middle School in Springfield, TN. The school he was inheriting had a myriad of issues mostly due to culture problems. A hopelessness felt amongst the faculty trickled down to the students who came from troubled home lives.
Then, Dr. Bell decided to call the students, “scholars”.
What transpired over the following years is something of a miracle. Small cultural shifts that Dr. Bell implemented had seismic effects.
Springfield Middle School went from a place…
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