Hunter Receives Multi-Year Funding from Tennessee Department of Health

Project goals include improving support and outcomes for K-12 West Region districts

Dr. William Hunter, associate professor in the College of Education Instruction and Curriculum Leadership, has been awarded a five-year, $3,000,000 grant from The Tennessee Department of Education with Vanderbilt University serving as the Sponsor centering on the area of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Behavior and Academics. He will receive $700,000 per year for five years.  

The Tennessee Tiered Supports Center is a project that provides technical assistance to districts in the West Region of Tennessee to develop and implement a Response to Intervention (RTI) plan within a multi-tiered system of supports designed to improve behavior and academic outcomes for K-12 students with behavior and learning needs.

Via a collaboration with faculty at the University of Tennessee Knoxville and Vanderbilt University, Hunter will provide K-12 school districts in the West Region with technical assistance and trainings to build RTI implementation capacity, ensure fidelity of RTI implementation, evaluate RTI outcomes, and drive continuous improvement of the RTI process.   

At the conclusion of this grant, Hunter and his project partners hope to have prepared leaders in the West Region to be better able to effectively support the behavior and academic outcomes of students within the West Tennessee K-12 school districts.

For more information on this project, contact Hunter at wchunter@memphis.edu.