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Shady Hill
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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 - 2017
Educator preparation program improvement goals for the upcoming program year
Goal #1 Require all apprentices to develop curriculum and implement lessons that reflect a deep understanding of multicultural pedagogy and cultural competence.
Goal #2 The Shady Hill School will continue its partnerships with the Lawrence School and Brookline as well as CityYear, Breakthrough, and Lesley University. Lesley University's work with SHS to recruit and train more Creative Arts and Learning apprentices/graduate students will continue to be an area of concentration for strategic recruiting. We are also exploring a partnership with Harvard given our recent work with them to host an intern from the graduate school who was on a one year leave of absence from a charter school in Boston. We aim to also focus on financial sustainability through grant writing and fundraising through alumni to award more scholarships to potential students.
Goal #3 Shady Hill School will delve deep in expanding its focus on interdisciplinary learning with a focus on arts integration. It will also pilot one-year placements for two apprentices in classrooms that have a Central Subject yearlong thematic unit of study.

Annual Goals - 2016
Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year
Goal #1 Shady Hill aims to continue our partnership with the Lawrence School in Brookline to provide each apprentice teacher with EXPERIENCE working with students on IEPs and students who are ELLs.
Goal #2 Shady Hill aims to use CAP during the FALL and the SPRING to assess the apprentice's growth and development as well as their impact on student learning over the course of a year.
Goal #3 Shady Hill aims to utilize the Director of Inclusion and Multicultural Practice to partner with the Asst. Director of teacher training and identify local networks linked to more racially and ethnically diverse communities to increase the applicant pool and the diversity of the apprentice cohort.

Progress Toward Goals - 2016
Progress made toward prior program year goals
Goal #1 Provide all apprentices with experience in a public school setting where they can observe and practice working with students who are English Language Learners and students who have Individualized Educational Programs. Shady Hill School hired an SEI instructor to work with Shady Hill's faculty and licensure only apprentices. We discovered that SHS has at least 30 ELLs. These students were identified. Apprentices in these classrooms at SHS were guided in delivering instruction using effective SEI strategies modeled by the apprentice and the SP. All of the apprentices enrolled in the program identified and taught a student receiving support from learning resources at SHS or were on an IEP at the Lawrence School in Brookline.
Goal #2 Shady Hill School required all apprentices to use technology for instructional purposes in their classrooms. This occurred in grades pre-K through 8.
Goal #3 Apprentices were engaged in intentional collection and analysis of student progress data to guide curriculum development, instruction, and feedback to students, parents, and supervising practitioners.

Annual Goals - 2015
Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year
Goal #1 Provide all apprentices with experience in a public school setting where they can observe and practice working with students who are English Language Learners and students who have Individualized Educational Programs.
Goal #2 Provide apprentices with more strategies and opportunities to use technology with their students for instructional purposes.
Goal #3 Identify professional educators who can model how data is used to inform and differentiate instruction.

Progress Toward Goals - 2015
Progress made toward prior program year goals
Goal #1 Shady Hill successfully recruited, developed and found employment for one middle school math and two science apprentice teachers. Two were employed by independent schools and one was employed by Watertown Public. All three are white women. Each passed their MTELS in the content area. Our science department and math department chairs reviewed transcripts and evaluated applications. The math department chair also served on six-member admission committee.
Goal #2 Shady Hill was not as successful in recruiting a racially diverse cohort of teachers. In a cohort of 16 apprentice teachers, 2 were men and 1 of those men sought and obtained early childhood licensure. Shady Hill successfully recruited and developed an African American woman and a white Hispanic woman. The majority of the cohort in 2014-15 were white women in their mid-twenties. Two women self-identified as career-changers. Two of 16 of the apprentices were bilingual. Our partnerships with two national organizations and our recruitment at HBCU's proved successful in identifying promising candidates.
Goal #3 Most not all apprentices spent time in classrooms at Shady Hill School and/or the Lawrence School to gain exposure and practical experience with students who have special needs and children who are ELLs. This is an area that requires further attention.