GOAL 1: ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE: Leverage transformative teaching and learning practices that embody MUS’s mission and its rigorous place-based curriculum.
Objectives:
- Establish grade-level and departmental outcomes and competencies for student achievement.
- Broaden the curriculum to incorporate new practices in secondary education while preserving the school’s tradition of superb pedagogy and a longstanding commitment to its revered Honor Code.
- Optimize counseling and academic support resources and programs.
- Ensure that the MUS student experience fosters community and global citizenship.
- Develop a middle school mindset for the Lower School and determine the viability of adding a 6th grade.
- Implement a schedule revision that enables the re-envisioned academic model and encourages faculty innovation, faculty-student teamwork, and student interaction.
Performance Goal Statement: By 2026 MUS will be recognized as the premier college preparatory school for boys in the state as evidenced by student outcomes, college placement, diversified curriculum model, and experiential education.
YEAR ONE PROGRESS:
- Department scope and sequence updated.
- New Lower School student-support structure installed, incorporating Director of Studies, Academic Support Coordinator, and Counselor focusing on social-emotional support.
- Research on the counseling structures of local and regional schools conducted.
- Research and committee work assessing the benefits of adding a sixth grade conducted and ongoing.
- Additional Lower School student-centered programming with a middle-school experience focus incorporated.
- Professional development and training provided (curriculum, leadership, middle school, and social/emotional programming).
- New social/emotional curriculum implemented.
- Additional student service-leadership programming implemented.
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