Sumner County Schools TEACH Sumner Program: THRIVE
Are you wanting to become a special education or elementary school teacher? TEACH Sumner is partnering with Austin Peay State University (APSU) to offer a licensure program to prepare candidates with the necessary knowledge and skills to be successful in the classroom. A requirement of the program is that you are hired as a job embedded fulltime teacher of record, in Sumner County Schools.
Requirements for entry to the program can found on the APSU website linked below. This is not a degree completion program, and you will need to have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree, a minimum 2.75 undergraduate GPA, and a passed Praxis exam (if degree is not sufficient).
Next Steps Links:
- APSU JOB EMBEDDED PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
- APSU APPLICATION
- BOOK SCS THRIVE PROGRAM INTERVIEW *Please book as a “THRIVE INTERVIEW” (THRIVE interviews are available each Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon)
Application Process
- Please complete this non-binding Interest Survey if you want to be considered for the upcoming school year’s cohort. We will contact you with further information.
- APPLY for the TEACH Sumner program through the Sumner County Schools (SCS) job board.
- Set up a program interview.
- You will be interviewed for entry into this TEACH Sumner program. Please bring all the documentation that will be outlined in your invite email.
- If accepted into the TEACH Sumner THRIVE program, Apply for admission to APSU.
- Please apply for open positions in your content area with Sumner County Schools.
- You may not start employment with SCS until you have been awarded a teaching license in TNCOMPASS and have completed all SCS HR onboarding.
- START THE PROGRAM! See the current cohort calendar on the left for upcoming learning days and check your email regularly for more information.