Mission and Strategic Plan

List of 4 items.

• Goal 1: Leader in Education

  Hockaday will be the recognized leader in education and a model for how to educate girls – developing creative and divergent thinkers who are prepared to lead lives of purpose and impact in a rapidly changing, complex, and connected world.
  
  Strategies:
  

  • Articulate the philosophy of a Hockaday education, including the skills we will deliver to help girls become lifelong learners and confident contributors to their families, communities, and workplaces. • Define excellence to encourage individual and collaborative exploration, courage, creativity, perseverance, risk-taking, failing forward, and the pursuit of purpose through academics, arts, and athletics.
  • Promote a teaching environment that supports faculty excellence and cultivates innovative pedagogies, interdisciplinary learning, effective use of new technologies, integration between curricular and cocurricular learning, collaboration, and professional development. • Expand project-based and experiential learning opportunities through exploring partnerships with non-profit entities, businesses, higher education, and community organizations.
  • Educate and equip Hockaday students with practical tools and knowledge so that they may successfully navigate a complex and connected digital landscape. • Re-examine assessment practices to fully support intellectual risk-taking, collaboration, innovation, and creative exploration.

• Goal 2: Extraordinary Student Experience

  Hockaday commits to an extraordinary student experience – one that is empowering, joyful, and nurtures the well-being and success of every student both inside and outside the classroom.
  
  Strategies:
  

  • Teach and model the Four Cornerstones (Character, Courtesy, Scholarship, and Athletics), recognizing and more strongly connecting the learning and growth that occurs across all facets of the student experience. 
  • Encourage and allow sufficient time for girls to discover and engage their talents and purpose, integrating a rich array of curricular and co-curricular opportunities. 
  • Develop programs to support and enhance each student’s physical, mental, social and emotional well-being, and intentionally address factors (both within the School and in society) that threaten this well-being. 
  • Embrace and support a wide range of student learning profiles. 
  • Strengthen the sense of community, collaboration, pride, and connection to all members of the Hockaday family: day students, residence students, faculty, staff, alumnae, parents, grandparents, and parents of alumnae.

• Goal 3: Culture of Genuine Inclusion and Belonging

  Hockaday will sustain a culture of genuine inclusion and belonging by embracing diversity, fostering empathy, and establishing a solid foundation of mutual respect and support.

  Strategies
  

  • Foster a climate where mutual respect catalyzes learning, creativity, and collaboration, building life-long bonds. 
  • Recruit, develop, and support excellent faculty and staff while enhancing faculty diversity of perspectives, background, and teaching styles as defined by the Tenets of Faculty Excellence. 
  • Retain excellent faculty and staff by attending to their mental and physical wellbeing. 
  • Attract, enroll, and support best-matched students who enhance and embrace diverse perspectives, talents, backgrounds, and learning profiles. 
  • Incorporate diverse perspectives and cross-cultural skills into Hockaday’s curriculum and culture to equip all students for living in a complex and increasingly diverse world. 
  • Extend opportunities for innovative, multicultural learning through travel and exchange programs, community engagement and service learning, online instruction, and other opportunities to enrich students’ experiences and perspectives.

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• Goal 4: Long-Term Financial Sustainability

  Hockaday will ensure its long-term financial sustainability, enhance affordability and access, and grow and diversify its sources of support.

  Strategies: 
  

  • Assess the competitive landscape and market pressures to more effectively define and communicate the “value proposition” of a Hockaday education. 
  • Maximize the use of Hockaday’s resources to sustain academic and co-curricular excellence, enhance affordability and access, and achieve School goals and facility needs. 
  • Challenge our operational model and adapt decision-making to innovate without adding. 
  • Evaluate opportunities to grow and diversify revenue streams to support Hockaday’s mission. 
  • Build support among all our constituencies by cultivating connections and engagement, with a goal of increasing participation in our fundraising efforts. 
  • Sustain and grow loyalty by telling Hockaday’s story through the generational voices of its alumnae, faculty, students, and families.

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