HARDING ACADEMY
A PreK through 8 School in Nashville, Tennessee
Strategic Plan:
Pillar #1
Strategic Plan:
Pillar #1
Dynamic teaching and learning:
Ensuring continued academic relevance
Building on the bedrock of our pedagogical values
For decades, Harding Academy has offered students an intentionally calibrated educational experience, crafted to both support and challenge children as they grow into budding artists and aspiring chemists, compassionate classmates, and brave leaders, and—most of all—joyful lifelong learners.
Our strategic plan empowers Harding Academy educators to build on this culture of dynamic teaching and learning to create exciting new opportunities for student engagement, in our classrooms and beyond campus. The plan’s focus on professional development and instructional resources ensures that Harding teachers remain empowered, innovative, well-aligned with each other and with overarching aspirations, and deeply invested in meaningful student success—now and far into the future.
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Expanding experiential learning to afford students hands-on, real-world practice in collaborative and creative problem solving.
Conduct curriculum audit, which will evaluate current academic standards, assessment practices, schedule, and philosophy.
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Sustain and expand training in integration of diversity, equity, and inclusivity and social/emotional learning into the curriculum and instruction.
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Reimagining assessment processes to elevate progress and mastery over checklists and memorization.
Evaluate standards based grading and mastery transcript approach.
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Expand project-based learning and experiential education, training, and portfolio through The Harding Immersive Series.
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Prioritize Capstone Project for Middle School through The Harding Immersive Series.
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Offering Harding faculty and community members fresh insights into teaching, learning, child development, and community building through Teacher Learning Institutes.
Craft Work Values at Harding Academy.
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Sustain evaluation processes that keep the school/teachers evolving with our changing world. Ready to beta test in the 2022-2023 school year.
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Evaluate microcredentials as foundation for lifelong learning and developing nimbleness in ongoing professional learning.
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Continue Teacher Fellow Program - Early career educators accepting a position as Teacher Fellow, under the Director of Teaching and Learning.
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Steward professional learning communities.
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Focusing on process and iteration to instill appreciation for not only skills and outcomes, but also application, growth, effort, critical thinking, and inquiry.
Evaluate and implement student on-campus internships.
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Overhaul community engagement program.
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Support student-led projects, clubs, and programs.
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Creating new approaches to scheduling that create space for new learning opportunities and deeper engagement.
Work with Leadership + Design to partner on a design process for developing a new schedule.
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Supporting the evolution of our Learning Effectiveness Team
to support student learning and partner with faculty and staff members through data analysis, curriculum review, and co-teaching.
Utilize Learning Effectiveness Teachers as Instructional Coaches.
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Determine best practices for how the Learning Effectiveness Team can embed recent hybrid model and social/emotional learning growth into sustained program innovation.
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