Strategic Plan
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- Strategic Plan 2006
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- Strategic Plan 2006 (3.1M)
Our mission guides us and the future compels us to prepare our children for meaningful participation in the 21 st century. We strive to help our students become competent, inquisitive and purposeful citizens equipped to envision and work toward a better world.
Vision
- Our children live in a rapidly changing and challenging world
- Growing population and increased diversity
- Flattening economy
- Need for sustainable human practices
- They will need new skills and habits to be responsible and effective citizens and leaders
- Global engagement
- Skills and habits of mind
- Character and leadership
- Ensure that our curriculum remains strong and develops skills and habits for 21st century citizenship
- Prepare the school community to support the development of these skills and habits
- Ensure that our facilities continue to support our mission and program
- Make financial plans that reflect creative and responsible stewardship of the school’s resources
- Ensure that our core curriculum remains strong, integrated from kindergarten through eighth grade, and supported by technology
- Enhance our curriculum to emphasize 21st century competencies
- Teacher Development
- Community Connections/Public Purpose
- Multicultural Curriculum
- Diversity and Building Community
- Equity and Justice, Service Learning, Public Purpose
- Global Education
- Ecological Literacy
- Technology
- Develop after-school and summer programs that align with the school’s mission and support identified curricular goals
- Explore creating a Teacher Development Institute at MCDS that provides training for new teachers and professional development for experienced teachers
- Support professional development, emphasizing 21st century skills and use of technology to support curriculum
- Enhance parent education so that the entire community is aligned to support 21st century citizenship and skills
- Ensure that our facilities enhance programs and enrich quality of work life
- Ensure that our facilities and management practices are ecologically sustainable
- Implement plans to responsibly maintain, improve and develop our aging facilities
- Make long-range financial plans to ensure sustainability of curriculum and programs
- Make plans for funding the campus master plan which will support our curriculum and programs