STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE Goal 1 STUDENT DEVELOPMENT LCA will provide opportunities for all students to discover their identity and security in Christ, acknowledge their worth as image-bearers, and pursue a life of virtue that honors God, fulfilling His divine plan for them.
Major Accomplishments • Organized PEP Talks, a popular parent-education program that equips and empowers parents to partner with the school to be countercultural. • Launched the school’s Kingdom Diversity initiative, which fosters LCA as a community that welcomes and honors Christian families from all backgrounds. The initiative includes the appointment of the school’s first Diversity Coordinator and the formation of a diversity committee to support families of color on their journey through Legacy. • Encouraged and enabled students to become “doers of the Word” through the expansion of mission trips for Middle and
Upper School students to the Dominican Republic, Sierra Leone, Puerto Rico, and Houston. Almost 50 percent of the Upper School student body have served on at least one foreign mission trip. • Administered YouScience as a tool to assess each student’s unique interests and abilities. • Implemented the Character Strong program, a character-and spiritual-formation curriculum for Middle School students. • Adopted imago Dei as one of the school’s six core values, to emphasize the importance of treating everyone with respect and dignity.
Goal 2 FACULTY AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT LCA will seek, retain, and develop passionate Christ-followers who possess a growth mindset, a servant’s heart, and a biblical worldview. All employees will embrace and embody LCA’s mission and core values.
Major Accomplishments • Appointed the school’s first Biblical Worldview and Cultural Engagement Coordinator, who is charged with developing a biblical-worldview training module for all instructional staff. • Developed and implemented a comprehensive professionalevaluation program for faculty that measures how well they are embracing and embodying the school’s mission and core values.
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• Substantially increased salaries and benefits for teachers, enabling LCA to attract and retain the best mission-appropriate teachers possible in the competitive marketplace of North Texas.
