School leaders have been hard at work this year constructing a new Strategic Plan for St. Margaret’s Episcopal School. 

 

The Strategic Plan will be finalized this summer. It will mark the end of a three-prong process that has involved the entire school community over the past year. Here’s a closer look:

 

St. Margaret’s has solicited feedback from parents, students and alumni through anonymous surveys this school year, in addition to feedback from the local community, idea-generating exercises at PTF General Membership Meetings and PTF Executive Board Meetings, and the completion of a market research report to better understand St. Margaret’s positioning in the educational landscape. 

 

This feedback was influential in identifying strategic directions that the school community is eager to pursue, which was aggregated and presented to St. Margaret’s Strategic Plan steering committee, a 21-member team made up of Trustees, school leaders, faculty, staff, students and parents. 

 

The pillars of St. Margaret’s new Strategic Plan were further developed through a number of engagement opportunities. 

 

A professional community in-service day in January was dedicated to generate ideas and clarify focus areas. The Board of Trustees has dived into strategic-plan work at an October retreat and during several meetings, including multiple Board long-range planning committee meetings. 

 

In designing a Strategic Plan to present to the Board of Trustees, the 34-member design team divided into eight groups, where they had several meetings to talk through ideas and feedback and to collectively craft initiative proposals for consideration. These proposals were aggregated and discussed at a final steering committee meeting in early May, before a final draft was put together and presented to the Board of Trustees. 

 

The Board of Trustees met in May to review the Strategic Plan draft and offer feedback. The plan will undergo a series of revisions before it is finalized and adopted by the Board of Trustees this summer. The new Strategic Plan will be shared with the St. Margaret’s school community soon after.