Strategic Plan
- STUDENTS: Specializing in Elementary Education
- FACULTY and STAFF: Cultivating and Retaining Professional Expertise
- COMMUNITY: Fostering A Campus of Belonging
- NEXT GENERATION: Shaping Our Future
STUDENTS: Specializing in Elementary Education
| Carey School Values: Kindness, Respect, Personal Responsibility, Curiosity, Confidence and Joyful Learning |
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| Objectives | Key Results |
| STUDENTS: Specializing in Elementary Education | |
| We Know Children and How They Learn | Essential Skills Trajectory: Use whole group, small group and personal instruction to refine and build essential skills across content areas, ensuring grade level progression and cultivating individual growth. Use of Time: Review and revise daily schedule for students and faculty to align with Learning Philosophy Statement. System of Assessment: Develop a system of formative and summative assessments that can be used to inform instruction, monitor progress and provide insight into learning goals. |
| We Celebrate Children through Development and Engagement | Productive Struggle: Develop strong habits of mind by creating scaffolded opportunities to practice growth mindset, persistent effort and resilience for deeper comprehension and better content retention. Choice and Agency: Enhance student buy-in through choice-based activities and assessments, creating opportunities to develop student capacity to take ownership of their learning. Purposeful Citizenship: Refine curriculum around diversity, equity, civic agency, and social justice to promote connection and action on behalf of the community. |
| We Prepare Children for Life and School Success | Executive Functioning: Emphasize opportunities for students to practice self-regulation in order to be able to independently focus, plan and prioritize in support of their learning. Creative Confidence: Promote opportunities for students to use novel approaches in order to explore questions and express notions and ideas through design thinking and iteration. Social Competencies: Strengthen SEL concepts and foster interpersonal skills and identity development in all students. |
FACULTY and STAFF: Cultivating and Retaining Professional Expertise
| Carey School Values: Kindness, Respect, Personal Responsibility, Curiosity, Confidence and Joyful Learning |
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| Objectives | Key Results |
| FACULTY and STAFF: Cultivating and Retaining Professional Expertise | |
| We Know Faculty and Staff and Recruit Mission Appropriate Personnel | Recruitment: Continue to enhance the recruitment process to attract the best professionals and practitioners in the marketplace. Diversity: Create further opportunities for a diverse professional community to connect, collaborate, grow and lead in order to identify, nurture and retain colleagues. |
| We Celebrate Faculty and Staff and Build a Strong Work Culture | Recognition: Explore and enhance recognition opportunities to honor outstanding individual and team performance. Investment in Our People: Continue to benchmark and review total compensation positions relative to industry standards. Explore and implement other compensatory/wellness programs. |
| We Prepare Faculty and Staff by Supporting Their Growth | Coaching: Refine a coaching model that enables teachers to learn and apply new pedagogical practices to improve teacher practices and student outcomes. Leadership Opportunities: Distribute leadership among a team of individuals with different skill sets and experiences while sharing the mission to sustain a school-wide culture of learning. Growing Our Own: Cultivate aspiring teachers by providing comprehensive preparation and training opportunities. Inspire current teachers by developing personal growth plans with built in, on-going feedback mechanisms. |
COMMUNITY: Fostering A Campus of Belonging
| Carey School Values: Kindness, Respect, Personal Responsibility, Curiosity, Confidence and Joyful Learning |
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| Objectives | Key Results |
| COMMUNITY: Fostering A Campus of Belonging | |
| We Know Our Community and Value our School-Family Partnership | Volunteerism: Research ways in which the Carey community’s talent and time might strategically further the work of the school and its community. Inclusion: Keep a pulse on the evolving needs of families by deepening relationships among families through existing or new programs. Home - School Communication: Continue to streamline school communication in order to increase parent engagement. |
| We Celebrate Our Community through Shared Purpose and Social Impact | Partnerships: Investigate how the cultivation of key strategic partnerships (e.g.. Camp Galileo, SEL Institute, and Hands on Bay Area) might positively impact and enhance Carey’s on-campus programs. Community Betterment: Investigate how strategic community opportunities might positively impact the community at large (e. g. micro-school). |
| We Prepare Our Community for School Life after Carey | Parent Education: Provide learning opportunities designed to inform, engage and inspire our school community. Middle School Transition: Further refine middle school education process and options, as well as, parenting approaches for the next developmental stage. Alumni Affiliation: Continually identify ways to stay in touch with alumni families to benefit from their experience, history, and institutional knowledge. |
NEXT GENERATION: Shaping Our Future
| Carey School Values: Kindness, Respect, Personal Responsibility, Curiosity, Confidence and Joyful Learning |
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| Objectives | Key Results |
| NEXT GENERATION: Shaping Our Future | |
| We Know Strong Leadership | Board Strength: Identify and develop trustees within and outside the school community with profiled skills to advance strategic work. Leadership Planning: Continue to develop and implement processes that ensure strong governance transitions. Data Management: Review and implement benchmarking practices and data analytics to inform decision-making. |
| We Celebrate Our Next Generation by Funding Our Future | Enrollment: Continue to optimize enrollment management practices to ensure short term and long term resources. Affordability: Maintain commitment to financial assistance to provide institutional access to a wide range of socio-economically diverse families. Revenue Stream: Explore the feasibility of alternative revenue and enrollment streams such as acquiring a pre-school. |
| We Prepare the Institution for Our Next Generation | Development: Optimize and expand sources of giving (e.g. Flying Eagles) and streamline advancement communications. Endowment: Evaluate and implement strategies broadening endowment funds to contribute annually to our operational budget. Sustainable Master Planning: Implement a master plan for the campus site to increase the use of flexible space, reduce environmental impact, and maintain life-long ecological education. |