TENNAIR 2026

The Impact Credential Model is the result of SCORE’s effort to align Tennessee around a collaborative vision for the educational credentials we want every Tennessean to attain. Through building an analytical model (twice!), SCORE encountered challenges demanding innovative solutions.  In this session, the audience will learn what the Impact Credential Model is, how SCORE translated ambiguous problems to data-driven answers, synthesized diverse external data sources, used a directed acyclic graph (DAG) to map data flow, collaboratively wrote code using Python and Git, and elevated the impact credential model in statewide conversations. Participants will additionally learn how we made mistakes and how we seek to improve the credential impact model in the future.