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The Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education, Inc.
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Annual Goals

This report lists the annual improvement goals reported to ESE in the educator preparation program provider’s state annual report. Providers may report up to three goals for the upcoming year and are asked to report on progress made toward the prior year’s goals. Annual goals are reported in May of the academic year listed.

Annual Goals - 2015
Educator preparation program improvement goals for the upcoming program year
Goal #1 Increase by 25% the average number of practicum hours for Match Teacher Residents. We hope to do this by restructuring the resident's schedules and assigning them to a classroom earlier in the year.
Goal #2 We want to double the amount of time that Match Teacher Residents spend observing master teachers. We will do this by creating an hour a day of observation time in the resident's schedule as early as September.
Goal #3 Launch a pilot study of the efficacy of our teacher prep curriculum in partnership with Harvard's Center for Education Policy research. We are in the process of getting this off the ground for it's first year this summer.

Annual Goals - 2014
Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year
Goal #1 In the coming year, we are prioritizing opportunities to disseminate aspects of our work outside of the charter school sector which we have primarily served for the past 6 years. Our goal is to have at least one district and/or traditional education school partner for whom we will provide pre-service teacher training.
Goal #2 Better integration of Common Core tasks in all of our instructional methods courses. Instead of focusing on more general pedagogy, we will dedicate up to 25% of the time in our methods course to the intellectual work of preparation work of problem solving, close reading, and evidence based writing that the Common Core demands students to perform.
Goal #3 We will create a new, but required, independent study course that leverages technology to help our residents fill content gaps in light of the Common Core. We currently do not offer content courses, so we are working to identify online resources that could be leveraged to create personalized learning plans for each of our residents to improve the depth of their content knowledge.

Progress Toward Goals - 2014
Progress made toward prior program year goals
Goal #1 We have succeeded in disseminating our training to non-charter partners through the Teacher Launch Project (listed as goal #3 for this upcoming year).
Goal #2 Our method specific courses now are completely integrated with the Common Core standards. We have re-written our course handbooks to use the language and structure of the Common Core. This includes the work of problem solving, close reading, and evidence based writing.
Goal #3 This year, we started a monthly course to dive deep into content. English residents join peers in a close reading and following discussion on novels that are typically taught in grades 6-12. Our math residents use that time to review content from Algebra I to PreCalculus. These classes focus on improving content knowledge in residents. We have also improved our reference list of online resources for additional content support.

Annual Goals - 2013
Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year
Goal #1 Place more than 50% of graduates in a high-performing school in the Boston Metro Area.
Goal #2 Provide up to 2 hours per week of induction coaching for each Boston Metro alum during the months of August-November; alums rate coaching an average 9 out of 10 on program surveys.
Goal #3 Develop and teach a new 35+ hour course on teaching English Language Learners; course receives an average 9 out of 10 rating from all participants.

Progress Toward Goals - 2013
Progress made toward prior program year goals
Goal #1 We exceeded our goal. 75% of last year's cohort took full-time teaching jobs in Boston, Cambridge, Lawrence, New Bedford.
Goal #2 This goal was met. We provided an average of 2 hours per week of follow-up coaching for all of our Boston Metro alums in the months of August, Sept, and Oct. By the end of Oct, we began to differentiate our coaching dosage based on performance. Additionally, we provided another round of coaching to teachers in January, the first week after the holiday break.
Goal #3 The course has been developed and is ongoing with four more day-long sessions left to teach this May. We will collect survey ratings at the conclusion of the course.