Dr. Adrienne Battle recipient of the R.H. Boyd Service Award 

NASHVILLE, TN — Dr. Adrienne Battle is Director (Superintendent) of Metro Nashville Public Schools has spent almost her entire career at MNPS, previously serving as a math, reading and language arts teacher; an assistant principal, academic principal and executive principal; a turnaround coach for principals of the district’s priority schools; and as a community superintendent overseeing all schools in the Southeast quadrant of the city as well as high schools across the district.& A Nashville native, Dr. Battle is a graduate of the district’s John Overton High School, Missouri State University and Tennessee State University, where she earned her master’s, education specialist and doctorate degrees in Educational Administration and Supervision.& Under her leadership, MNPS was named a Level 5 district – the highest achievement – in the Tennessee Value Added Assessment System in both 2022 and 2023, and the district recently received national recognition in the Education Recovery Scorecard for its work on post-pandemic academic recovery, with Top 10 rankings among large urban districts for growth in both reading and math from 2022 to 2023.& Dr. Battle was named the Professional Educators of Tennessee’s 2022 Superintendent of the Year and was featured in the Nashville Post’s Most Powerful Women, and...