Academics
Strategic Academic Plan (PK-12)
Academic Alignment
Academic alignment work is ongoing and involves thoughtful intention and care. Strategic academic alignment ensures that the curriculum remains in balance across and within the School's divisions and departments. As One School, we embrace the responsibility of academic alignment work which ensures students have a rightly ordered, thoughtfully sequenced academic experience during their time at Casady.
Academic Alignment at Casady School
Paramount to the success of executing Casady School's Strategic Academic Plan is finding the time and space for our teachers to collaborate. Establishing protected time and provisions for hosting a variety of strategic departmental team meetings will allow our faculty to continue crafting our academic program to be as effective and nimble as it can be in meeting our high standards of excellence. Beginning in the 2022-23 school year, Wednesday mornings, before the school day begins, will be the designated time for our faculty to come together for these strategic meetings around academic alignment. Much time and care has been given to creating a schedule for these Wednesday morning academic planning meetings so as not to significantly disrupt learning or instructional time for our students. We will adopt a new Wednesday Schedule school wide.
This kind of work involves monitoring the alignment of our curriculum in all the ways that curriculum takes shape within a school. It’s about ensuring alignment of our students' skills and knowledge, as well as alignment of our philosophy and priorities, policies and practices, and communication and cultures.
Academic alignment means that regardless of discipline or division, each piece of the puzzle fits alongside its neighbors to embody the same shared image which is Casady School’s mission and our Portrait of a Graduate. The importance of academic alignment was reaffirmed from the recently completed ISAS re-accreditation study that encouraged us to continue identifying ways to break down silos and support alignment, both programmatic and in communication across and within divisions.
Wednesday Schedule
Reserving time that is consistent, frequent, and common will allow us to promote ongoing curriculum work with our academic teams. This professional learning time allows teams of teachers to be able to meet horizontally and vertically during shared time where they can set goals and monitor progress, make curricular connections, align their procedures, and thoughtfully respond to new opportunities and challenges.
This important work is essential to the health of our curriculum as well as the students’ experience at Casady as a whole. This professional time will occur weekly on Wednesdays from 7:45 to 8:45 a.m. beginning August 24, 2022.
This important work is essential to the health of our curriculum as well as the students’ experience at Casady as a whole. This professional time will occur weekly on Wednesdays from 7:45 to 8:45 a.m. beginning August 24, 2022.
Casady School is an independent, co-educational, college preparatory, Episcopal day school serving students in pre-k-12. Educating Mind, Body, and Spirit.
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Casady School is a PreK-12, independent, college preparatory Episcopal day school committed to deeper-level learning. Casady School welcomes a student body that reflects the diversity of the world around us and therefore does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, nationality, or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletics, and other school-administered programs generally accorded or made available to students at the School.