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Soulsville Foundation Statement on Racial Equality and Civil Rights
Like many other organizations in Memphis, Stax Records held a special place in the struggle for racial equality, basing its company practices on the ideas of opportunity, economic empowerment, inclusion, and trying to affect positive change in the...
STAFF SPOTLIGHT: Throughout the year, School Counselor Mrs. Ragland tends to our students’ mental wellness. During the COVID-19 crisis, she has been a virtual lifeline to many.
She has been a music teacher and reading specialist. In addition to her own college degrees, she holds special certifications from Harvard University’s Institute for College Admissions, Testing & Selection and the University of Colorado-Boulder’s Institute for...
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: COLLEGE GRADS!
We miss our TSCS students when they graduate high school, but we are ecstatic when they graduate college. Here is just a sampling of some who have earned their degrees this year. Top row, left to right: Alexis Moss, Class of 2014, Southwest Tennessee Community...
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Braleigh Casey on transitioning from 8th grade to high school during COVID-19 pandemic
While much of the focus in May 2020 has been on the TSCS graduating class and other graduating classes around the country, it’s also a highlight of any student’s school years to transition from middle school to high school and many of these students have faced the...
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Amari Ajamu marches to the beat of a different drummer, all the way to Grambling State University
Amari Ajamu joined The Soulsville Charter School in the 6th grade in 2013 and has attended every year through 2020, his senior year. Dedicated to his academic work but also fascinated with drums since he was a toddler, Amari has also been a student of the Stax Music...
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: For TSCS senior Jada Park, distance learning offers lessons in both academic studies and life
As we have noted in other articles, the senior class of 2020 is facing an entirely new set of circumstances in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. While continuing their education through distance learning, they are also now virtually completing the college...
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: 2012 graduate Jameel Best’s journey from student to teacher to pro basketball player and now the new Deputy Sheriff in town
Jameel Best, Class of 2012, was accepted to numerous colleges and universities during his senior year in the inaugural graduating class of TSCS: Tuskegee University, University of Memphis, Xavier University New Orleans, Tennessee State University, Middle Tennessee...
STAFF SPOTLIGHT: TSCS College and Alumni Support Team (CAST) embraces new challenges amid COVID-10 coronavirus pandemic
(CAST Team members top row left to right: Rachel Cox, Amber Thomas, Nicholas Barnhart. Bottom row: Jacque Fields, Erin Brinkman, Lauren McCain) During normal times, The Soulsville Charter School’s (TSCS) College and Alumni Support Team, or CAST staff, works diligently...
Soulsville Charter School students donate to friends in need through VING Project during COVID-19 distance learning
TSCS students Aja Wilson (left) and Makhalia Gray with their VING checks to give and VING backpacks. Take the second syllable of the word “giving” and you have “VING,” the name of a Chicago-based nonprofit that gives young people the chance to give $1,000 to...
Soulsville Charter School teacher makes Physics website free during COVID closures, named TFA National Innovation Award finalist
At the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year, Soulsville Charter School teacher Jack Replinger made the difficult decision to start charging a subscription fee for his wildly popular PositivePhysics.org website, While he was understandably apprehensive about the...
