The Tennessee Department of Education launched Best for All Central: Tennessee’s Hub for Learning and Teaching, a new online tool designed to provide school leaders, educators, and families an extensive collection of high-quality, optional resources to support teaching and learning, as well as features for locating specific resources quickly and easily.

Best for All Central will serve as Tennessee's online hub for best-in-class instructional and professional development materials for the coming academic year and beyond—all designed to be easily accessible, searchable and free. The department launched this tool a top priority to support Tennessee’s districts, educators, and families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best for All Central can be accessed at http://bestforall.tnedu.gov/.

The resources in the online tool are designed to accommodate various levels of Wi-Fi and technology accessibility in mind, and many of them can be utilized online, downloaded, or printed for later use.

A standards navigator is available for educators and families to access in-depth information about Tennessee’s academic standards as well as standards-based teaching and learning resources. The standards navigator enables users to explore student expectations for specific standards, see how those standards align across grade levels, view sample assessment items to determine mastery, and access corresponding lessons and resources. Math and English Language Arts standards are available now and similar resources for additional subject areas are in development.

Additionally, a series of instructional videos with companion lessons on ELA, math, and science are now available and continue to be added, which are intended to provide districts with weekly content on core areas of instruction. Districts across the state, including Hamilton County Schools, Overton County Schools, Fentress County Schools, and Marshall County Schools, are creating instructional videos serving various grades through recovery relief funding grants from the department. Grants are still available for interested districts to film videos to be featured on Best for All Central.

“Best for All Central provides resources that allow a district to move seamlessly in and out of face-to-face learning and distance learning. Moreover, the resources allow districts to serve students who may be safer at home, and students who can attend lessons in their traditional school environment. Over time, the tool will provide innovative solutions for connecting resources to assessment data, customizing instruction for a variety of situations, and family well-being tools," said Lisa Coons, Chief of Standards and Materials.