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Strategic Plan

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Where we are going

The overall purpose of planning is to serve students and families better, enhance the school’s program, and strengthen its market position. This can be accomplished with a few well thought out initiatives that align strategy and vision to the school’s mission:

  • Restoring the Lower School to full enrollment, sustaining full enrollment in Middle School, and modestly increasing enrollment in the Upper School.
  • Enhancing the uniquely inclusive culture of Seven Hills by reaffirming the school’s commitment to enrolling a diverse and engaged student body.
  • Sustaining the excellence of the faculty and staff.
  • Focusing on shaping new programs within all four divisions in order to remain competitive and to meet the evolving needs of students.
  • Addressing significant facilities issues so all of these programs can flourish.

 

Our Goals

Accordion

  • Invest in faculty to ensure the evolution of engaging curriculum, future-focused teaching methodologies, and the ability to attract and retain the strongest teachers from a national pool.
  • Ensure both access and full enrollment of well-qualified applicants through the judicious use of financial aid and merit scholarships.
  • Sustain the curricular emphasis on fostering such future-focused skills as critical thinking, creativity and innovation, and collaboration.
  • Foster real world learning by strengthening career exploration, service learning, and leadership opportunities.
  • Nurture individual talents by:
    • Developing a signature program to guide students toward opportunities to specialize, both at school and beyond.
    • Enhancing opportunities in the fine and performing arts and athletics.
  • Expand the early childhood program to include a two-year-old program on both campuses and to support enriching the all-day curriculum.
  • Build a new, state-of-the art, early childhood education facility on the Hillsdale campus to support more robust enrollment in the Lower School.
  • Expand the array of meaningful after-school enrichment activities.
  • Provide an enhanced world language experience.
  • Build a new Middle School facility designed to support grade level social structures, interdisciplinary, project-based learning, and the use of instructional technology.
  • Enhance the advisory program in Middle School to provide opportunities to explore age-appropriate social and emotional issues and nurture self-advocacy and civic engagement.
  • Engage students in better understanding their own learning styles and provide on-going faculty training to help students develop strategies to maximize their learning.
  • Develop a strategy to coordinate the Lower and Middle School language programs.
  • Enhance the social and programmatic richness of the Upper School by modestly increasing enrollment, while maintaining traditional class sizes and faculty/student ratios.
  • Engage students in sustained, interdisciplinary explorations of issues of global, national and local significance.
  • Institute a coordinated program to promote meaningful engagement beyond Seven Hills, including career exploration and internships, community involvement and service learning, leadership training and entrepreneurial opportunities.
  • Develop a signature program to help students identify special, individual interests and to guide them toward opportunities to specialize, both at school and beyond.
  • Expand course offerings in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) subjects.
  • Build a multi-purpose performing arts facility to provide both ample classroom and rehearsal space for a rapidly-expanding performing arts program as well as a suitable performance and gathering space for the Seven Hills community.
  • Provide a wide range of visual and performing arts courses and electives, with an emphasis on student-led, performance-based experiences.
  • Support the exploration and implementation of appropriate technology and innovative technical practices throughout the arts program.
  • Provide adequate support for the musical theater program in Middle School and explore the feasibility of a similar program in Upper School.
  • Explore the feasibility of establishing a dance program.
  • Build a new Lower Field complex with turfed surfaces and reallocated field space to maximize access to practice and game space and allow for more teams.
  • Explore additional team opportunities, especially in the winter season, based on student interest.
  • Sustain the excellence of our coaching staff by providing on-going evaluation, professional training, support, and program coordination for volunteer and staff coaches.