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A New “Skill Up” Cohort Approved

September 29, 2021

Last week the City of Chattanooga’s Health and Education Facilities Board approved supporting a new Skill Up cohort in collaboration with Chattanooga State, The Enterprise Center and the Chattanooga Chamber (through grant funding we received through the Regions’ Foundation). The Skill Up program provides job training…

REIGNITING A LOVE FOR LEARNING AND MITIGATING LEARNING LOSS THROUGH OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME

June 30, 2021

Happy, healthy students who are eager to be in the classroom to learn - could educators and parents be dreaming? Thanks to out-of-school time partners and Hamilton County Schools Summer REACH program, this is in fact, a 2021 reality. In our Chattanooga 2.0 2021 Report to the…

Coffee with Molly: Early Literacy in Hamilton County, TN

May 13, 2021

Throughout May, Chattanooga 2.0 is championing the importance of early learning and early literacy. Breckan Duckworth, Literacy Officer with Hamilton County Schools, joins us for this week’s Coffee with Molly. Watch or listen as they break down why early literacy is important and what work is…

Coffee with Molly: Hot Topics in Early Childhood

April 22, 2021

Throughout April, Chattanooga 2.0 is championing the importance of early childhood. Today, Molly is talking with Katie Harbison, President of Chambliss Center for Children, about hot topics in early learning. Coffee with Molly is a video blog series during which Chattanooga 2.0 Executive Director, Molly Blankenship,…

One Step Closer

April 21, 2021

The murder of George Floyd last summer sparked a nationwide reckoning with persistent racial injustice. We join our community members and many across the nation in the overwhelming relief at yesterday’s historic verdict as a measure of accountability and one step closer to true and equal…

How Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Will Impact Our Work

April 30, 2020

By Molly Blankenship, Executive Director of Chattanooga 2.0 Like so many other communities across the country and world, Chattanooga and Hamilton County have spent the past seven weeks in unprecedented, unpredictable, and scary times. And on top of a global pandemic, our resiliency was tested yet again…

BlueCross Technology Academy Students Kick-Off the School Year

August 27, 2019

Students from the BlueCross Technology Academy at Red Bank High School spent a day at the company’s Chattanooga offices to help kick off their year of learning. They used LEGOs for a team problem-solving activity and spoke with employees from the BlueCross information services team about…

Moc LEAD Creating LEADers at UTC

August 13, 2019

https://chatt2.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Moc-LEAD.mp4 As students graduate college and head into the workforce, businesses increasingly see a lack of creativity, communication, team-building and other soft skills among new workers. Thanks to the University of Tennessee Chattanooga’s Leadership Programs , students in Chattanooga are being transformed into the future business…