Education & Instruction

Ashley Academy is an independent, co-educational private school located on 18 acres in the Tri-Cities region, offering a personalized and academically rigorous experience for students in grades K through grade 12. Our school is an excellent option for families seeking strong academics, flexibility, and a supportive community. Ashley Academy's Early Childhood Learning Center offers a full day (7:30-5:30) preschool program serving children starting at 12 months old through 5 years old.

Vital CPR delivers comprehensive, in-person CPR instruction certified by the American Heart Association, designed to fulfill workplace compliance standards throughout the Tri-Cities region—Kingsport, Johnson City, and Bristol. Our certified instructors guide each class through hands-on training in small groups, ensuring you gain confidence in recognizing emergencies, performing high-quality chest compressions, and using an automated external defibrillator (AED). Whether you work in healthcare, education, childcare, senior care, construction, or any other field where readiness matters, our curriculum covers adult, child, and infant CPR protocols along with the latest safety guidelines. Each session includes interactive demonstrations and realistic practice scenarios, so you leave feeling prepared to act decisively. We schedule classes at convenient times—including evenings and weekends—to fit busy workdays, and our flexible registration process allows you to choose a location close to home or the office. Upon successful completion, you’ll receive an official AHA certification card valid for two years, confirming your skills meet or exceed OSHA and other industry requirements. With Vital CPR, you’re not just checking a box—you’re investing in the confidence and competence to save a life.

ArtCurious Studio is a clay studio. Aleta offers clay classes in handbuilding and throwing on the potter's wheel. Single sessions, 6-week sessions and individual/private lessons or parties.

My name is Karen Fickley, and I have been teaching/tutoring all levels of math for the last 15 years. In addition, I have helped students raise their ACT significantly. In the fall of 2021, I plan on teaching Saxon Algebra 1, Saxon Algebra 2, and Saxon Advanced Math, depending on the interest. I have a lot of experience with this curriculum and have had a great deal of success. I can teach these classes both in-person and over Zoom if a student does not live close enough to Johnson City. If interested, please message me on Facebook.

CCS Truck Driving School’s Entry Level Tractor Trailer Driver Training Program is a fast-paced tractor trailer training program designed for individuals seeking employment with over the road trucking companies.

Center Stage provides theatrical education for all ages, at all levels, and gives students the tools they need to excel!

Trinity Arts Center is a community of Christian artists and teachers providing high quality dance, music, & art education in Johnson City. Creating art that looks like praise.

The Bristol Ballet Company offers quality dance education to students ages 3 and older. Performances and classes August through May as well as summer studies. Recipient of grant awards from Tennessee Arts Commission and Virginia Commission

Paint Parties! We guide you step by step to make a beautiful piece of art you’ll be proud to display or give as a gift! We come to you and provide everything you need to have a fun and creative time with your guests or we can accommodate for smaller parties at Simple Blessings General Store. We do Birthdays, Churches, Company Parties, Fundraisers, Children, and Adults!

I have been teaching music to youth for over 20 years now. I specialize in teaching piano and flute, but also teach theory and clarinet and sometimes saxophone.

Located in Kingsport, we are the areas only studio with pottery painting, glass fusing, instructional board art and the areas famous ‘paint and sip’ canvas events. Our studio is filled with family-fun hands-on art that will keep everyone creating! Not an artist? No problem. Sometimes it’s just about the fun of creating!

TechVision is a company that strives to show you how children and adults, who have vision impairments or reading challenges, can learn the technology and skills that will help them succeed in life....or for anyone who just wants to learn how to use a computer better, faster, and more efficiently.

Shellshead is a classical dance conservatory in that we focus solely on technique, theory and application of classical ballet, tap and jazz principles in our curriculum.

Yarntiques has the area's most extensive selection of high quality knitting and crochet yarns. Knitting classes start at 6 consecutive lessons for $40.

MAD B was formed out of a desire to create wonderful events with learning experiences in culinary preparation and artistic expression. Our mission is to create. Create immersive and memorable theatrical and culinary experiences. Join us today!

Providence Academy is committed to providing academic excellence to Kindergarten through 12th grade students through a classical Christian education founded on a biblical worldview. The school’s implementation of classical methodology, discipleship philosophy and high standards of academic excellence are distinctives that set Providence Academy apart from other educational institutions in the region.

Providing Lessons and Classes in Piano, Voice, Guitar, Cello, Violin and Musical Theatre located in Johnson City, TN.

I have been teaching art for 35 years, loving every minute of it!! Starting in 1983, I began teaching art in the Challenge Program with JC Schools, which was a government grant position. I developed a screening system to identify visually gifted students in each school, and they were bused to me at the materials center. I loved that students were recognized for their artistic ability and given an opportunity to advance in it. When that grant ran out I taught after school enrichment art classes for the JC School system for many years. In 1993 I began teaching art in Carroll Reece Museum on ETSU campus in their after school art program, Artsploration. I taught there for 13 years until we lost our space due to renovations, when I began teaching out of my church, FUMC. Several years, and stints at Tri-Cities Christian, homeschool associatons, Valley Forge visiting artist, Early Learning Center, and many more opportunities later, I started teaching out of my family’s former home, the Log Cabin on Unaka! So, here I am-still loving teaching art to wonderful, creative, exuberant, children, as well as adults, and hosting art parties for both!

For over 150 years, Milligan has educated men and women to lead and to serve. Our commitment to Christ-centered liberal arts education has led Milligan to become a growing, well-respected liberal arts college. Because of our emphasis on scholarship , community , and faith , students come from all over the world to experience our distinctively different approach to higher education. Milligan offers more than 100 majors, minors, pre-professional degrees, and concentrations in a variety of fields, along with graduate and adult degree completion programs. Consistently recognized for quality and value, Milligan has been recently ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the best regional universities in the South for quality and value; named one of Washington Monthly ’s top 20 master’s universities in the nation; and in 2016, listed as the No. 2 best college in Tennessee by BestColleges.com .

East Tennessee State University is a public university located in Johnson City, Tennessee. Although, it is part of the Tennessee Board of Regents system of colleges and universities, the nation's sixth largest system of public education, it is now governed by an institutional Board of Trustees as of May 2017. It is also the fourth largest university in the state. ETSU has off-campus centers in nearby Kingsport and Elizabethton.