Objective 2:CELEBRATE & QUANTIFY OUR WORK

We see excellence in action every day. Now, let's showcase it.

As any Marburn stakeholder would say, excellence is central to our identity; a unique differentiator that has driven the impact and success we’ve had since our inception. Our vision for the future must continue to prioritize this key characteristic by creating the space for our team to further commit to and nurture excellence throughout the work we do. Given the reputation Marburn has had since its beginning as offering the best education available for students who learn differently, we will prioritize working with the academic teams to determine how we define and measure student success. Once a meaningful definition is in place, we will then set annual targets that can be monitored and used to inform learning and continuous improvement practices. Our goal is to build upon our strong community reputation by sharing consistent and measurable results.

In addition to driving excellence inside the hallways of Marburn’s day school, we also endeavor to further our reputation as leaders in the field, especially with educators.

We will do this by continuing to offer innovative community and educator programs, seminars, and conferences. Our vision to serve peer educators and researchers is rooted in our core conviction that students are capable of learning and excelling when educators provide best practices to meet students where they are academically, socially, and emotionally. As we equip more educators, our impact will spread exponentially, reaching far beyond our own programs.

In order for us to ensure we are offering the best education available, we must prioritize our own continued learning. One way we will nurture a culture of excellence is to continue to provide Marburn Academy’s faculty with professional development opportunities. Similarly, as we seek to increase our position as a leader in our field, we must intentionally document our findings so strategies can be replicated with fidelity. Our teachers, tutors and other academic leaders will ensure alignment between all academic programs, certifying a similar, impactful educational experience that is consistent whenever and wherever working within the Marburn Academy community.

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Continue to deliver excellence through an academic program rooted in evidence-based curriculum and pedagogy, in order to produce qualitative and quantitative successes for our students and families.

Objective 3: Expand our impact.

We have a gift. Now, let's share it through focused growth.

AAs we look to the future, our aim is to increase our impact by making the entirety of what Marburn has to offer more accessible to the students, families, and educators who seek our unique set of services. In order to make measurable progress towards increasing accessibility, we first need to establish a way to measure it. With an aligned way to measure accessibility, we will focus on offering outreach programs in a second location that make our unique approach available to students that haven’t historically been afforded access. Our goal is to use the next three years to pilot a program near downtown Columbus to determine whether a satellite location of this type is financially feasible in the future.

We will also prioritize maximizing our impact within the existing day school program, increasing enrollment by a measured 3-4% year over year with the goal of reaching 275 students by the 2024-2025 school year. There will be an increased effort on expanding community awareness for the purpose of both increasing enrollment in the day school as well as increasing awareness about the Marburn Education Collaborative (MEC) services and programs. Our outreach efforts will be focused on reaching new partners and constituents with the goal of building a student makeup that reflects the demographics of the community and surrounding communities Marburn operates in.

In tandem with exploring feasibility for a permanent second location for outreach services, there is a desire to maximize the potential of the existing facilities that a master plan will help to resolve.

The following Key Results will determine if we have successfully achieved this objective:

Key Results

Increase enrollment at Day School to 275 during 2024-2025 school year - with each grade level achieving at least 85% of its annual enrollment target.

Determine if Marburn Academy can develop, implement, and sustain a secondary location for auxiliary programming that supports a wider geographic and demographic range of students, families, and educators based on key performance indicators established by the Marburn Education Collaborative.

Develop a “diversity” metric that measures Marburn Academy’s growth in the area of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging and adopt it as a vital for Marburn Academy within one year.

Heighten the community’s understanding of Marburn Academy by continuing to hone and share our brand, resulting in a 10% increase per year in the number of inquiries that match the student profile.