Trends and Future Directions/Recommendations- Provide a bulleted list identifying each direction and perceived or measured impact.

Enrollment

• Enrollment continues to be a focus point for the department, due to the continued shortage of educators across America. Even though, enrollment numbers have taken a dip over the past two years, the quality of students entering the program has increased. This is evident by the overall GPA’s of the students entering the EPP and their ability to excel in and out of the classroom setting. Elementary and PE/Health are the most enrolled programs in the department, with Secondary programs being the least enrolled programs within the department. The plethora of secondary vacancies within the surrounding regions is driving the department to seek knew strategies for increasing enrollment and interest within the secondary programs.

Operations

• The administrative office continues to operate entirely online (Microsoft Teams)
• Monthly faculty & Student meetings (Microsoft Teams) to build relationships, streamline communication and provide enrichment and development opportunities
• The entire school continues to instruct students using various modalities (Online, In-Person and Hybrid) to meet the needs of our students that are having to work to sustain a lifestyle or pay school bills
• The school is placing its students in clinical courses before student teaching to provide more hands-on opportunities for the students to develop as educators. The trend to this approach is to accelerate the student's development and provide students entering student teaching with a seamless transition. The shift will place our students in real world settings allowing them to be more effective with decision making and problem-solving.
• The program has been seeking to develop a completely on-line school to meet the immediate demand and market of non-traditional students. The school will operate along side of the current programs, drastically impacting enrollment