FULFILLING OUR PROMISE
CRESCENT SCHOOL STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
Welcome to Fulfilling Our Promise, Crescent School’s Strategic Priorities 2020-2024. It will guide the next chapter of our school’s history with a focus on four strategic priorities: Our Way, Our People, Our Campaign and Our Future.
A Promising Future
Strategic planning provides an opportunity to contemplate our future and commit to our ongoing school improvement. We developed our new strategy in a highly collaborative manner, involving parents, students, faculty & staff, alumni, Board members, and others in our community. The result is a roadmap that affirms our bold mission, provides a clear vision for our boys and our School, and sets distinct goals to achieve our aspirations.
Our last strategic plan (2015-2020) laid the foundation for our academic plan (The Crescent Way), established the Crescent Centre for Boys’ Education (CCBE), enabled us to develop the Master Campus Plan, and deepened ties with our Alumni community.
Crescent’s new Strategic Priorities 2020-2024 extends this work to operationalize our mission further and encourage future-forward thinking into our school’s legacy. Four strategic priorities - Our Way, Our People, Our Campaign and Our Future - are explored fulsomely in this plan.
We are excited to embrace this work and realize even greater promise for what lies ahead.
MICHAEL FELLIN, P’24 HEADMASTER
JAMIE COULTER, ‘87, P’21 BOARD CHAIR
Crescent’s mission, Men of Character from Boys of Promise, recognizes that boys with curious minds and open hearts have the potential to develop in a manner that will fit their purpose in life, whatever it might be.
We demonstrate four core values daily in our behaviours and our interactions:
Students are taught that respect for oneself, peers, teachers, family, community and the environment is at the heart of everything we do at our school.
Students learn the importance of taking responsibility for their actions.
Students are strongly encouraged to think and act in truth.
Students are instructed to treat others the way they want to be treated.
Fulfilling our promise, requires us to define what our vision will be for both our boys and our school.
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Our Portrait of a Graduate identifies the knowledge, skills, and character strengths our boys require to achieve future success, wellbeing, and purpose in their career, community, and family life. This is accomplished through an education that is directed towards three guiding questions and six essential qualities:
A Crescent graduate must be a moral person with the courage to uphold and act upon the highest standards of ethical behaviour. Additionally, he needs to be self-aware and self-regulating with a strong sense of purpose, agency and potential.
A Crescent graduate needs to be committed to being a positive leader who builds relationships and understands the importance of serving others in order to inspire action and accomplishment. He must also be a critical thinker who listens clearly, communicates effectively and collaborates well.
A Crescent graduate must be an engaged citizen who respects people’s differences, is mindful of interconnectivity and seeks betterment in his local and global community. What’s more, he needs to be adaptable, resourceful and creative in meeting the challenges of an increasingly complex world.
Working collaboratively is a hallmark of how we do things at Crescent. It is why we formed a joint Board and School committee to engage current parents, students, faculty & staff, alumni, Board members, and a variety of experts in the strategic plan development process. In this way, we ensured a shared vision for what we might become, as well as what we must do together, to achieve our goals.
There were three stages in the planning process:
Our mission and values remain constant. Their application in an increasingly complex world requires us to build on our existing capacity as a leader in boys’ education nationally and internationally to realize our vision for our boys and our School. Over the period 2020-2024, we choose to focus on four critical areas:
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Our Way
The academic team will implement our strategic academic plan and associated research-based programs for the benefit of our boys’ personal, intellectual, social and emotional development by:
Our Portrait of a Graduate should shape all of the academic, co-curricular and communal experiences of our boys. We will review how we foster learning in every part of the school and refine our total educational offering to align with the Portrait of a Graduate and our strategic vision to realize our difference.
Our school has an opportunity to become a research-based professional development centre in service of boys’ education, while augmenting our standing as a world leader in the theories and practices on how boys learn best.
We will construct a distinctive teacher education program that locates and promotes emerging research on leading practices in boys’ education in partnership with like-minded local, national and global organizations.
We can draw on our teaching staff and broader community to create an academic, co-curricular and communal program that provides a distinctive educational experience and qualification for all of our boys. We will design and implement a Crescent Diploma of Education that allows our boys to encounter diverse pathways of learning that both meet standard requirements and are enhanced by our essential character qualities, particularly for personal leadership, social enterprise, and global citizenship.
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