Department of Education
Kevin Huffman, Commissioner

Last Update: 04/24/2013

Thinkfinity

The Tennessee Department of Education has partnered with the Verizon Foundation to roll out Thinkfinity to provide 21st century learning resources for Tennessee educators and students. Thinkfinity.org is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives, seeking to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training.

Thinkfinity Content Partners produce nine discipline-specific, standards-based web sites that include lessons for teachers, activities to use in and out of the classroom, games for young children and teen, adult literacy resources and reference materials for anyone in the education field, as well as for parents and after-school practitioners. The Content Partners and their Thinkfinity web sites are:

• The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
• The Council for Economic Education
• The National Endowment for the Humanities
• The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• The International Reading Association
• The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• National Geographic
• The Smithsonian National Museum of American History
• The National Center for Family Literacy
• The National Council of Teachers of English
• ProLiteracy Worldwide
• Wonderopolis