Music has power it really does. It’s given to us to communicate to people that speaking we can’t,” said Kallaos.

Rutherford County School district leaders plan to request funding to build a new middle school and a new high school to help accommodate the community’s rapid growth.

She’s helpful, kind and caring. That’s what students say about Cristy Wyatt, an eighth grade English Language Arts teacher at Westmoreland Middle School in Westmoreland, Sumner County.