Who We Are
A CTE Program for This Generation
JAG Tennessee is classified as a Career and Technical Education (CTE) course through the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE). That's right - schools can use CCTE funds to offer JAGTN to their students!
The JAG Advantage
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Project-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a proven approach to prepare students for academic, personal, and career success, where other strategies and traditional curriculum have failed. Research has identified the principles of PBL as a foundation to move toward more learner-centered, inquiry-based, active learning methods. Elevating our education practices to gold-level standards will ensure learners gain the benefit of real-world relevance that is critical in today’s workforce.
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Employer Engagement
Employer engagement has been a cornerstone activity of the JAG program since its inception. In leveraging workforce development and work-based learning as an instructional strategy, it elevates the practice of employer engagement to an opportunity for meaningful connections between skills and ideas, and real-life situations. Imagine employers investing their resources, talent, and knowledge to customize individual learning experiences for JAG students. Workforce development and work-based learning instructional strategies advance effective employer partnerships to provide learners with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, and skills needed to be successful in post-secondary education and career pathways.
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Trauma-Informed Care
Unfortunately, an increasing number of JAG students have experienced trauma, and the JAG model is one of resiliency. It demonstrates how to build relationships, gives learners voice and choice (even more so through PBL), teaches life skills, and helps learners overcome adversity.
A Model That Gets Results
JAG Tennessee, an affiliate of Jobs of America’s Graduates (JAG), is a non-profit organization dedicated to stewarding high school students toward graduation with follow through toward post-secondary education and/or job opportunities. Associated with JAG since 1981, JAGTN consistently obtains a graduation rate above 95-percent with 2024’s graduation rate at 100%. JAGTN teachers teach the JAG model during a student’s senior year, then add a 12-month follow up to ensure success after high school.
JAGTN Board Members
JAGTN is grateful for all of the board members who voluntarily serve in this capacity for JAGTN. Board members are from different avenues including education, non-profits, corporations, and philanthropy.
