Future Summit Takeaways
Last December while working with Katherine Prince from KnowledgeWorks, we gathered clarity around the near and distant future around work and how we can prepare our graduates.
We came away from this experience with the following three crucial understandings:
- Our Mission and Vision for the AISC Learner are built for the future of teaching and learning at AISC.
- A crucial next step for us as a school will be to define the competencies that we expect of ourselves and our students to assure student success within the framework of our Mission and Vision for the AISC Learner.
- Our Strategic Pathways for Learning will appropriately drive us to continue to stay relevant as a learning organization.
This helped us verify that we were on the right track creating our Futures Plan 2018-2021. Below you can see our pathways, which align with each of our Strategic Objectives: Learning, Resources, Talent and Community.
Strategic Pathways
Strategic Pathways articulate three-year vision statements around core priority areas. Annual Goals and Actions Plans will support the vision in our Strategic Pathway Areas.
Strategic Objective: Learning
We will align expected outcomes, assessment, teaching, learning and reflection on practice in order to support our mission and student learning objectives.
Pathway: Learning & Experiential Opportunities (Sectional)
AISC develops programs for students to deepen their capacity to contribute with courage, confidence, creativity, and compassion to a diverse and dynamic world.
Person(s) Responsible: Each Principal
Pathway: Learning & Innovation in the System (Sectional)
AISC implements innovative learning experiences incorporating the inquiry framework and transdisciplinary skills, and alternative schedules to engage the vision of the AISC learner.
Person(s) Responsible: Each Principal
Pathway: Learning & Vision for the Learner (Inter-Sectional)
AISC integrates the vision for the learner as a means to achieve the mission.
Person(s) Responsible: Each Principal
Pathway: Learning & Inquiry in the Curriculum (All School)
AISC integrates the inquiry framework and project-based learning into the curriculum (development process).
Person(s) Responsible: Director of Teaching and Learning
Pathway: Learning & Wellness (All School)
AISC creates an integrated student wellbeing program that promotes and fosters healthy habits, self-awareness, self-management and positive relationships.
Person(s) Responsible: Director of Teaching and Learning
Strategic Objective: Resources
We will strategically use all possible resources* to create a learning community aligned with our core values and mission.
Pathway: Resources & Data (All School)
Develop and evolve systems and processes to facilitate the convergence of data collection and use, assuring that stakeholders have access to beneficial data to make informed decisions.
Person(s) Responsible: Director of Technologies and Innovation
Pathway: Resources & Building Spaces (All School)
AISC implements the Building Spaces 2020 Plan approved by the Board of Directors in November 2016.
Person(s) Responsible: Chief Business Officer
Strategic Objective: Talent
The school will hire, develop and retain staff members who embody the school mission and core values.
Pathway: Talent & Professional Growth (All School)
AISC develops a professional growth, well-being, and evaluation framework that is aligned to best practices and to the vision for an AISC learner, incorporates faculty learning and development.
Person(s) Responsible: Head of School & Director of Teaching and Learning
Strategic Objective: Community
We will actively communicate, support, and contribute to our core values, mission and vision for an AISC learner so that our community lives the shared vision.
Pathway: Community & Advancement (All School)
AISC enhances its reputation locally and globally and expands engagement and support across all stakeholder groups.
Person(s) Responsible: Director of Advancement
Pathway: Community & Environmental Sustainability (All School)
AISC enlists the participation of all stakeholder groups to incorporate environmentally sustainable policies, practices, and programming in alignment with our mission and core values.
Person(s) Responsible: Head of School & Director of Technologies and Innovation
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