RE Log Fall 2019

FALL 2019 Ransom Everglades LOG 49 Enhancing our curriculum • We are implementing a new middle school schedule that reflects a contemporary approach to teaching and learning, providing the space and daily rhythms for collaboration, skill development and innovation. • We have created three academic departments at the upper school: STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), Humanities, and World Languages & Global Studies. This shift allows students to pursue interdisciplinary study and knowledge at the nexus of distinct fields. • Faculty are finding new and meaningful ways to assess students' work through comprehensive final essays, projects, presentations and redesigned exam formats. These assessments demand analysis and creativity, value originality, require more writing and often take the form of projects that draw on knowledge and skills acquired over the course of the entire semester. In 2018-19, RE invested $13.4 million in instructional programs. Building our faculty • Faculty are continuing to take advantage of rich professional growth opportunies, supporting their work in developing curriculum and designing unique programming for our students. • More than 70 percent of faculty possess advanced degrees, and many others are advancing their education in subjects as varied as English literature, musical theater, natural sciences, photography and data science. • These opportunities for continued study empower faculty to ask more focused, provocative questions and design even more relevant, engaging programming for our students. In 2018-19, RE invested $300,000 in professional growth.