Strategic Areas and Goals
Educational Program
Ensure that we provide a transformative educational experience that is deeply grounded in Friends values by continuously reviewing and improving our academic curriculum and pedagogy, our community life and service programs, and the mechanisms by which we attract and retain a high caliber of students, faculty, and staff.
Overview
- Design and implement a process to carefully and thoroughly assess whether our new curriculum is meeting its stated objectives and to review those objectives over time.
- Enhance total compensation and professional growth in relation to peer schools in developing the next generation of faculty and staff.
- Increase the scope and reach of our service programs.
RETURN TO TOPDiversity
Enhance our distinction as an inclusive educational community by challenging ourselves to address difficult questions raised by diversity in all its dimensions.
Overview
- Reexamine our definition of diversity, both to reflect the world of today and to ensure its alignment with the school’s mission and curricular objectives.
- Improve our practices school-wide from the perspective of the diversity of students and families of George School.
RETURN TO TOPEnvironmental StewardshipRecognize the pressing need for all human beings to live simpler, more sustainable lives by visibly integrating environmental stewardship into the day-to-day activities of students, faculty, and staff; and into our planning for the school. Overview
- Design and implement a plan that engages students, faculty, and staff in adopting behaviors that result in saving energy, reducing waste, living more simply, and demonstrating respect for our campus and for the future of our planet.
- Integrate environmental sustainability goals into all of our facilities planning.
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Improve our facilities to provide the best physical tools to advance student learning and to meet the needs of our teachers, while maintaining the pristine beauty of our campus.
Overview
- Update and integrate our multiple campus master plans into one.
- Prioritize our needs.
- Define needed improvements to our academic, arts, and athletic facilities.
- Determine funding needs and sources.
- Create a timeline and begin implementation.
RETURN TO TOPFinancial Aid
Demonstrate continued leadership in financial aid in the context of a changing economic environment for independent schools.Overview
- Undertake a rigorous study of current practices and new methods for making a George School education more affordable to economically diverse families.
- Define needed changes to our financial aid, admission, and tuition policies and objectives.
- Implement the steps that will ensure George School’s continued distinction in financial aid.
RETURN TO TOPFinancial SustainabilityCreate new processes for fundraising and financial planning that will ensure that we can support our strategic objectives for the long-term benefit of George School.
Overview
- Identify the operational, capital, and endowment needs that are required to implement our strategic plan.
- Prioritize needs and integrate these into our financial strategies and fundraising goals.
- Finalize and communicate how we will use the Barbara Dodd Anderson gift to support the school’s ongoing goals.
- Raise the additional funds needed to support our capital efforts and build endowment to support our ongoing commitments to compensation, financial aid, and affordability.
- Design and implement a plan for engaging a broader group of alumni/friends in the ongoing work of the school and of the George School Committee.
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