Strategic Plan Update: Design Team Work and Parent Engagement as Progress Continues

St. Margaret’s is making significant progress in the development of a new Strategic Plan to shape the future direction of the school.  

 

Over the course of this school year, the Strategic Plan Steering Committee—made up of Trustees, professional community members, alumni and Upper School students—has been hard at work establishing initial strategic initiatives, emerging goals and proposed strategies based on community feedback, market research and more. The Steering Committee is now divided into eight groups, each tasked with researching and developing action plans in their assigned goals. The teams are responsible for further refining and detailing the implementation of strategic goals, including timelines and metrics for success. These preliminary plans will be submitted in April and refined by the Steering Committee before being presented to the Board of Trustees later this spring. 

 

As part of the feedback process, St. Margaret’s Head of School Dr. Jeneen Graham presented at the most recent PTF General Membership Meeting. There, she shared an update on the Strategic Plan timeline before leading parents in attendance in an exercise to solicit further feedback. Parents were given six strategic ideas that had consistently emerged during the process and were tasked with ranking them in order of importance from their perspective. Parents and other members of the school community had the chance to take part in a strategic planning survey earlier in the process to identify priorities.

 

The Strategic Plan will be finalized this summer, at which point it will be shared with the St. Margaret’s community.