Grow Your Own

The Cheatham County School District is taking applications for the Grow Your Own program for the 2025-2026 school year. The deadline to submit an application is January 24, 2025.

This is a three-year accelerated program. You must be an employee of the Cheatham County School District as a classified employee. The program is for a K-5 certification.

Interviews for this program will take place on January 28, 2025, if your application is selected.

Please send all attachments and the application to Human Resource Supervisor Wendy Cox at [email protected] by January 24, 2025. If you have any questions, please contact Cox at 615-792-5664.

The district is also taking applications for Grow Your Own mentor teachers.

Mentor teachers should hold an active Tennessee license with an endorsement in the area where they will be supervising the apprentice (K-5), have a level of effectiveness of above expectation or significantly above expectations for the prior school year, and have a minimum of three years of experience as a teacher. Mentor teachers will receive a stipend of $500 per semester.

Mentor teachers must submit an application and administrator recommendation to our Human Resources Department by January 24, 2025. Selected mentors will be notified by February 3, 2025.

For more information about the Grow Your Own program from the Tennessee Department of Education, please click here.