City of Kingsport to host Straight to the Top! Conference at MeadowView
KINGSPORT – The City of Kingsport, Kingsport City Schools, and Northeast State Community College are please to announce that they will be hosting the 2010 Tennessee Conference – Straight to the Top!. The conference will held at MeadowView Conference Resort & Convention Center on Monday, July 26 and Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Other sponsors include: Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, SCORE – State Collaborative on Reforming Education, Tennessee Department of Education and Eastman Chemical Company.
The aim of the conference is to focus on strategies for achieving economic stability through education excellence. The conference will consist of several information packed sessions lead by special guest speakers.
Speakers include: | Tim Webb, TN Education Commisioner Anthony Williams, former Washington D.C. Mayor Phil Bredesen – Governor of Tennessee |
Sessions will be broken into two different tracts. These tracts are K-12 workshops and Higher Education workshops, which will focus on the achieving excellence in the relative feild of education. ‚
Both educators and economic development professionals will learn proven strategies to help guide them through the rapidly changing environment of education reform as it relates to economic stability. Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity!
Tickets are $99 per person or $75 perperson for groups larger than 4. For more information or to register, please visit our website at
www.KingsportTN.Gov/StraightToTheTop