NEWS & UPDATES
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...
March 28th COVID-19 Soulsville Update
Dear TSCS Families, We hope all of you are doing well and staying healthy in the midst of this public health crisis. We continue to miss all of you and look forward to the day when we can see each other at school. In the meantime, we have several...
COVID-19 coronavirus update from TSCS and Shelby County Schools; new dates for closure and information regarding food resources
To TSCS Families, First, we hope you are well and enjoying as much of your Spring Break as you can amidst rapidly changing circumstances related to containment, management, and prevention of the spread of COVID-19. You have likely already heard, but SCS...
The Soulsville Charter School working with Shelby County Schools and Shelby County Health Department concerning coronavirus; included among all SCS for closure until April 6, 2020
With Tennessee and Shelby County now reporting cases of coronavirus and all Shelby County Schools closed until March 30, 2020, we realize our faculty, students, and families have concerns. While the risk of contracting the virus remains low, we want to assure you that...
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: For senior Jayla Hampton, three summers of science, math, and whale watching have prepared her for studies in neuroscience
TSCS senior Jayla Hampton (right) at Andover with a fellow student They attend dances and go whale watching. They explore Boston and visit colleges throughout New England. They address opportunities and challenges involving race, class, gender, religion, sexuality,...
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: For TSCS alumnus Kaivion Nisby, a simple game became a game changer with Memphis Inner City Rugby
It’s been featured on the BBC, in USA Today, at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, in The Telegraph in Great Britain, on NPR, in Forbes magazine, and in countless local media outlets. But for Soulsville Charter School alumnus Kaivion Nisby, Memphis Inner City...
