SAES_JULY '22_Magazine

The school encourages a growth mindset and provides continuing education and professional development
opportunities so that our faculty and staff expand and/or deepen their skills as educators. Annual goal
setting allows faculty members to teams to expand and/or deepen their skills as educators. They reflect on
current professional practices, identify professional growth goals, establish a professional development
plan to attain those goals, track progress towards goals over the course of the year, and reflect on goal
attainment, including how the goals and professional development actually refined practices.
WHOLEHEARTED GROWTH ❣ A PLAN FOR EXPANSION
We will partner with the Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church to develop a blueprint for the
neighboring land by December 2020.
Following the departure of Father Channing
Smith as rector of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal
Church in July 2020, the development of a
visioning committee was put on hold until the
new rector was in place. As of this publication
date, a new rector has not yet been named.
The parcel at the center of our 10-acre campus
has certainly not sat untouched though. The
church and school have continued to improve
and utilize the property to enhance the work of
both organizations.
Our work on the property dates back to the
summer of 2020 when a joint committee of the
school and the church determined how the
property could best be utilized to overcome the
challenges posed by the pandemic. We began
by clearing the back portion of the property
to create outdoor gathering spaces, complete
with hand-washing stations, for both academic
classes, middle school lunch, and impromptu
student gatherings. A path was also created
to connect our main campus with Crestbrook
Field so that students no longer need to leave
campus to go to the field for recess and other
activities. These were some of the improvements
that made it possible for us to resume classes on
campus that fall.
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