Gordonsville High School

 Spring 2020 Statewide Dual Credit Update   

Audience: Directors of Schools, CTE Directors, Secondary Supervisors, Principals
Contact: Early.Postsecondary@tn.gov
Spring 2020 testing for all SDC courses has been cancelled to protect students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have explored other testing options, but the learning management platform that students test on does not provide the security requirements nor does it have the proper plagiarism detection software that would be needed for remote, at-home testing.  

SDC challenge exams are unique because they not only count as an end of course exam at the high school level but can allow a student to bank postsecondary credit if the student reaches the cut score set by postsecondary faculty.  

We will provide students who want an opportunity to bank postsecondary credit with a testing window during the month of September 2020.  

Students who wish to take the challenge exam will have the opportunity to test in September of 2020. We will work with the SDC coordinator to identify the students who wish to take the SDC test. More details will be coming in the next several weeks regarding the logistics of testing in September, but we encourage teachers to reach out to all their students and let them know they will have the opportunity to test.  

For additional information on expanded test sites, online review lessons for students, Ready Graduate and graduation requirements, teacher training, and transcription of scores from the September testing, click here.

2020-21 Statewide Dual Credit Registration  Audience: Directors, CTE Directors, Secondary Supervisors   Contact: Early.Postsecondary@tn.gov Registration to offer 2020-21 statewide dual credit (SDC) courses is now open! Registration for SDC courses will be open through April 17, 2020. Districts should direct high school principals to submit this registration form. This form will serve as the registration for teacher training, the MOU for offering SDC, and updating contact information for testing in 2020-21.   Training for all SDC courses will be completely virtual for new and returning teachers. A link to the summer training will be sent to teachers based on the contact information provided in the registration form above.   Once a teacher completes this summer’s training it will be valid indefinitely unless there are updates to course learning objectives, updates to the challenge exam or a teacher plans to teach a new course for which they have not taken the training.