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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 - 2016
Educator preparation program improvement goals for the upcoming program year
Goal #1 Engage with key issues addressed in the Memorandum of Understanding with Boston Public Schools. We will work with the relevant stakeholders to identify, plan, and implement action items.
Goal #2 Implement the state mandated Candidate Assessment of Performance during the practicum experience. To support this goal, we will further develop trainings for the associated personnel, including supervising practitioners, teacher candidates, and program supervisors.
Goal #3 Further integrate the Professional Standards for Teachers into the pedagogical courses in direct and indirect ways to support teacher candidate understanding and readiness.

Annual Goals - 2015
Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year
Goal #1 Begin to design the implementation of new mandates for the Professional Standards for Teachers. This goal will be further refined after the team completes the Alignment Working Group training this spring and designs our Implementation Plan. In essence, our plan is to prepare for the implementation of new curriculum designed specifically to address the PST mandates to insure the teaching readiness of our graduates.
Goal #2 Preparing for upcoming (2016-2017) program approval from our accreditors: NASAD, DESE, & NEASC. This work will involve the strategic implementation and documentation of our new PST alignment, as well as the enriched and formalized district relationship. We feel that our recent invigoration of our SEI preparation curriculum will also provide robust documentation of the excellence and adaptability of our program.
Goal #3 Begin to instantiate and document our district partnership with the Boston Public Schools. This will involve the documentation of deeper fieldwork encounters with in-district schools, formalized mentorship for our early-career graduates teaching in the district, and continued quarterly meetings among our department members and the arts leadership of the district.

Progress Toward Goals - 2015
Progress made toward prior program year goals
Goal #1 To work toward implementing the new mandates for the Professional Standards for Teachers (PST), we have: - Attended PST focus groups and training sessions offered by DESE - Created a detailed curriculum map which outlines how our current courses address the PST and supports our preparations for our DESE Formal review (2016-2017). - Begun using the PSTs as a reflection and evaluation tool in the Saturday Studios: Prepracticum 2 course.
Goal #2 We have prepared extensive self-study and summative documents in preparation for our accreditors, including NASAD, NEASC, and DESE offsite and onsite formal review. These documents include rich qualitative and quantitative evidence, which highlights how we are preparing our candidates.
Goal #3 We have developed our district partnership with Boston Public Schools (BPS) through discussing, drafting, and signing a Memorandum of Understanding. Initial stakeholder meetings have been held and additional discussions are planned for the coming year. In addition, it continues to be a priority to partner with BPS teachers when placing our students for their pre-practicum and practicum fieldwork.

Annual Goals - 2014
Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year
Goal #1 Approval by campus-governance of our 120-credit BFA in Learning & Teaching in the Visual Arts to ensure that graduates are familiar and skilled in facilitating visual arts learning in school, community, and museum settings.
Goal #2 Approval by campus-governance of our 132-credit BFA with licensure in Learning & Teaching in the Visual Arts to ensure that graduates are familiar and skilled in facilitating visual arts learning in school, community, and museum settings.
Goal #3 Confirmation of partnership plans with Boston Public Schools by designated liaison on the .01 faculty who is developing relationships and gathering data to establish specific programs within the arts department and or with particular schools.

Progress Toward Goals - 2014
Progress made toward prior program year goals
Goal #1 Upon gathering student input, we decided to reevaluate our goal and ultimately decided to not consolidate our programs. Students expressed interest in maintaining discrete programs in the variety of fields and there was a demand for specific and tailored preparation in non-school arts education. This has allowed us to continue to attract to the major more students interested in teaching in non-school settings.
Goal #2 As stated in relation to Goal 1, we reevaluated student interest and decided to maintain the discrete emphases in program tracks. We reinvigorated each track, for schools enhancing district-based fieldwork with an SEI requirement; for community ?based art education, we built partnerships with community programs built upon our Carnegie Civically-Engaged Campus Designation; and for museum education we formalized our required gallery-based curriculum.
Goal #3 We have progressed considerably in this goal. We have established quarterly meetings as formalized touchpoints with the BPS arts leadership and have drafted a formal Memorandum of Understanding for a mutually beneficial partnership. We have enhanced required district-involved fieldwork for all students and begun to make programmatic a placement pipeline to build a pathway for emerging educators, starting with initial fieldwork in district schools, through in-district student teaching placement, and project hiring within the district.