Schools rely on strategic plans to help them achieve their goals, meet the needs of their community, and set long-term goals for the future. Our community shaped our last strategic plan in 2017–2018, and while we made some wonderful progress toward our plan goals, the pandemic required us to shift our efforts and refocus mid-course. Having the framework of our strategic plan allowed us to adapt to our unexpected challenges quite successfully, and EMS was one of the few schools to remain open full-time. Yet the world significantly changed during the pandemic, and a new strategic plan will help us address the needs of the present and craft a unified vision for our upcoming centennial — and beyond!
News
Oct. 10, 2024
Last week, we welcomed our partners from Crane + Peters to campus to tour our facilities, visit classrooms, and engage in insightful conversations with many members of our community. In the coming weeks, C+P will synthesize their findings and collaborate closely with school leadership to develop the next steps in our journey together.
Oct. 2, 2024
Crane + Peters, the strategic planning and communications firm helping us map out the development of our next strategic plan, will be on campus on Monday, Oct. 7, and Tuesday, Oct. 8, to conduct focus groups. Thank you to all who will be participating! We look forward to engaging the full community in our next planning step when our survey launches in November.
Upcoming
As we look ahead, we invite our community members to participate in two key moments of our strategic planning process: our State of the School Address with Head of School Marek Beck, Ph.D., from 8:30–9:30 a.m. on Friday, Nov 22, and our community-wide survey, also to be launched next month. In January, we will host a Visioning Day, with activities designed to help us envision the future of EMS and the goals necessary to get there.
We look forward to your continued engagement!
Past Communications
To learn more about our strategic planning process, please review the communications we’ve shared with our community:
- Looking to Our Centennial and Beyond (Aug. 22, 2024)
- Next Steps in Strategic Planning (Sept. 12, 2024)
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