School Goals

In order to fulfill our mission, the South Shore Technical community will use the goals below as a guide to assess our current effectiveness and to plan for the future.

1. School Climate: Provide our students with a safe and supportive environment that empowers them to develop advanced technical, academic, and social skills for college and career pathways.
2. Facility: Maintain a clean, safe, environmentally and fiscally ­conscious facility that meets the needs of the school and community.
3. Community: Utilize multiple means of communication to engage current and prospective all students, parents, staff, and program advisors.
4. Curriculum & Instruction: Teach current core content and technical standards to develop students who are college and career ­pathway ready.
5. Assessment: Measure and report student achievement and work habits based on technical, vocational, and core content standards, and to use these results to improve instruction.
6. Transfer Skills: Identify and develop skills that cross all content areas, such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, work ethic, and sense of personal responsibility.
7. Literacy Practices: Identify and develop strategies to build strong content knowledge by responding to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline in a variety of forms.
8. Equipment & Technology: Utilize current industry ­standard equipment for our vocational technical programs, and current instructional technology tools and resources for all programs.
9. Student Engagement: Help students develop strong, positive relationships with teachers and peers via co­-curricular and extracurricular programs that shape their intellectual, physical, social/emotional development, and work ethic.
10. Instructional Support: Provide a continuum of support services to help all learners meet their academic and technical goals.
11. Student Recruitment and Retention: Implement recruitment and retention strategies that lead to sustained full school enrollment, steady student retention, and preparation for college and career pathways.
12. Staff Recruitment and Retention: Identify, recruit, develop, and support highly qualified administrators, instructors, and support staff dedicated to fulfilling the school’s mission.