INSPIRED EDUCATION
2014 - 2024
In 2014, the Nashoba Brooks School Board of Trustees adopted a set of Strategic Directions to provide high-level vision and guide the School through the following decade. With a goal of creating Inspired Education through innovation, inclusivity, and impact, Nashoba Brooks School successfully navigated a decade of exciting opportunities and unprecedented challenges.
Working together, the Nashoba Brooks community achieved ambitious goals that lay the foundation as the School approaches its centennial in 2028 and prepares for a bright future in the year, decade, and century ahead.
INNOVATION
Nashoba Brooks School builds on existing strengths to explore curriculum design and evaluation and create a resilient financial model to support dynamic program development.
• Launched multi-age preschool and transitional kindergarten programs to meet students where they are and inspire a lifelong love of learning.
• Engaged all employees in professional development in Responsive Classroom, health and well-being, Math in Focus, Wilson Reading, and DEIJ practices.
• Restructured the Student Support Team to provide 360° support for students.
• Launched schoolwide coding curriculum and after school intramural and interscholastic robotics program offerings.
• Hosted speakers, including Grant Lichtman, Jessica Leahy, Liza Garonzik ‘03, and Warren Berger, to inspire innovative curriculum and instruction.
• Completed annual “deep dives” to support dynamic, innovative curriculum, including new units, scope, sequence, and resources.
• Introduced a flex enrollment model, bolstered by the construction of three new flex classrooms and space renovations to support our dynamic program.
360° support for students
“At Nashoba Brooks, you are part of a kind community that believes in you…Everyone knew who I was and learning was fun!”
- Nashoba Brooks School Grade 3 alum
INCLUSIVITY
Nashoba Brooks School builds and actively maintains an inclusive community to attract and retain students, employees, and families with a variety of backgrounds and experiences, with deliberate attention to financial accessibility.
• Expanded transportation services, increasing the geographic area served to 35 towns.
• Launched a five-year, full-tuition STEAM Scholarship for students entering in Grade 4.
• Built community connections, learning, and growth through intentional commitment to integrating diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice initiatives through all aspects of the program.
• Maintained a healthy financial assistance budget at approximately 15% of tuition revenue.
• Completed year-long proactive assessment with the Glasgow Group to support our efforts to build an inclusive community.
• Built and expanded a robust and unique comprehensive compensation package including employee scholarship funds, tiered retirement match, and health insurance opt-out bonus to attract, sustain, and retain outstanding employees.
• Reduced tuition through reVision Tuition by approximately 5% each year for three years.
35 towns served
IMPACT
Nashoba Brooks School provides transformational learning experiences for each student by supporting and celebrating our exceptional students, faculty, and program.
• Created new, sustainably constructed spaces to support dynamic programming, including: Sureau Family Discovery Barn, Shilling STEAM Lab, flex classrooms, Merry Long Garden, and Denault Library Courtyard.
• Provided time, structure, and guidance to employees to generate interdisciplinary curriculum units, meaningful integration of technology, and digital citizenship curriculum.
• Celebrated student accomplishments, including next school placement results that reflect the diversity of our students, C-SPAN, MathCounts, robotics, National Latin Exam, etc.
• Expanded community programming on campus, including speakers, events, Summer Concert Series, Girls’ Time to Shine, Tactile Tuesdays, and Summer Wonders.
• Presented work at regional, national, and international professional conferences and student competitions.
• Built and supported effective partnership with parents in support of student learning, and provided access to occupational therapy and speech-language pathology services on campus.
• Participated in Global Action Research Collaborative (GARC) sponsored by the International Coalition of Girls’ Schools.
3 flex classrooms
We look forward to building on the strength, energy, and momentum created by our community and inspired by our strategic directions as we embrace new possibilities and write the next chapter for Nashoba Brooks School.
“It all began at Nashoba Brooks.”
- Nashoba Brooks School alum
