MNPS is an Emmy winner!
The documentary about the making of the district’s song, “Every Student Known,” was honored Saturday at the 39th Annual Nashville/Midsouth Emmy Awards. The 9-minute video captures the creation of the song by MNPS students and music educators in the summer of 2024.
“Every Student Known is our mission and mantra in Nashville Public Schools,” the district’s superintendent, Dr. Adrienne Battle, said in her acceptance speech Saturday night as she was surrounded by the students who wrote and performed the song. “It’s about understanding each student as an individual and knowing their talents, their strengths, their voices, their aspirations, their dreams.”
Dr. Battle thanked The Moving Picture Boys, the Nashville filmmakers who made the documentary; the 11 students who came together last June for a four-day songwriting camp to create the song and their families; Franklin Willis, MNPS’s director of Visual and Performing Arts, who organized the project; music educators Bryson Finney and Dee Hammonds, who worked with the students at Nashville studios provided by Universal Music Group; and everyone else in the district and community who had a hand in the song's creation.
Watch Every Student Known: The Creation of an Athem
MNPS also was nominated for an Emmy for the music video for “Every Student Known.” The district plans to release the Spanish-language version of the song this Thursday, February 20, at 6 p.m. at Plaza Mariachi.