Post #17: Our Strategic Growth Plan - An Overview

In December of 2020, we released our new strategic growth plan to establish a vision of the future we want to grow into and use to grow the school’s enrollment between 2020 and 2023.

This plan was the result of 18 months of collaboration with our Board of Trustees and a skilled consultant. Our consultant undertook market analysis, stakeholder surveys, focus group discussions, data analysis, and community presentations--and then the pandemic hit.  Despite the pandemic, we are moving forward and I want to use the next five or six blog posts to update you on that progress.
While you can reread the entire plan on our website, I want to focus on the five key learnings and the five vision statements in this blog post. Our data-driven approach revealed five pervasive themes across stakeholders:
  1. Strong relationships: The data clearly demonstrated the deep connections between our students, parents, and faculty.
  2. Academic excellence: Core to our value proposition to families in the Augusta community is an unusually strong academic program that sets high expectations and utilizes the most effective pedagogical strategies.
  3. Culture is crucial: Sustaining our community culture requires a disciplined approach to communication and interpersonal aptitude that builds engagement with all stakeholders.
  4. Consistency of the experience: Delivering a consistently high level of quality and relationships across each grade and program is of utmost importance to achieve our growth goals.
  5. Continuous improvement: Adapting to the needs of families and the rapidly changing nature of our community and economy requires that we continue to learn from internal and external feedback and improve with disciplined leadership.

I am a biology teacher at heart, so let me use a life sciences analogy. We consider our mission, philosophy, and core beliefs to be our “DNA” of our plan “body,” the five key learnings as the “skeleton,” and the five vision statements as the “flesh” we will put on the “bones.”

Our vision for Augusta Preparatory Day School, by the end of 2023, is a school that will:
  1. Serve as a center of excellence for faculty development, where all faculty members are actively engaged in professional growth and professional communities.
  2. Serve as a center of excellence for student development, attracting students interested in developing their talents in academics, arts, and athletics.
  3. Be a growing, diverse, inclusive, and safe community.
  4. Be the premiere school in the CSRA, known for cultivating students in the pursuit of individual growth, strong character, and opportunities to serve their local, regional, and global communities.
  5. Cultivate curious learners who can contribute individually and collaboratively towards developing innovative solutions to real-world problems.

In my next blog, post I will update you on vision statement number one…
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