Strategic Plan 2025
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As
Sea Crest School turns our focus to the next five years, we are committed to aligning our compass toward the following directions:
Strengthen our sense of place
Invest in the future Leave it Better Than We found it
Deepen the Student Learning Experience
Direction 1: Strengthen Our Sense of Place
Goal:
Sea Crest will strive to become a leader in connecting students to our unique coastal community. Students will leave Sea Crest understanding the richness of the place in which they live, feel connected to the land, the sea, and their own place in this world. By taking advantage of our unique location, we will offer a range of unmatched marine, coastal and environmental educational experiences that spark student curiosity and strengthen our graduates’ mastery of the messy and uniquely human leadership skills that will set them up for success in high school and beyond.
Direction 1: Strengthen Our Sense of Place
Initiatives:
● Continue to deepen our Environmental and Marine Sciences Curriculum and clarify learning outcomes
● Expand our current outdoor education program to include authentic Sea Crest Marine and Environmental themed experiences for all students JK-8
● Enhance place-based learning opportunities that foster a sense of discovery for the world right outside our classroom doors
● Establish partnerships with local marine and environmental organizations to enhance students' real-world engagement and understanding
Direction 2: Deepen The Student Learning Experience
Goal:
Through curriculum selection, aligned pedagogy and professional development in project based learning, Sea Crest will create classrooms where students are engaged in advanced critical thinking and problem solving integration. The school will adopt a range of assessment strategies to provide timely and detailed feedback to maximize student progress and truly reflect the unique complexities of teaching to the whole child. By building a community of learners across grade levels, we will promote every student’s long term academic development and personal success and build the leadership, collaboration, critical thinking, and creative problem solving skills students will need to thrive in an era of change.
Direction 2: Deepen The Student Learning Experience
nitiatives:
● Continue to create learning pathways for individualized student academic goals that challenge students to reach their full potential
● Move toward grade level project based learning capstones that span at least a semester with a culminating showcase
● Investigate the feasibility of forming student houses – internal communities that encompass our Buddy program and span all of the grades we serve – to promote a sense of identity and community across grade levels
● Transition to portfolio assessments and narrative report cards to provide a more holistic view of student progress
Direction 3: Invest in the Future
Goal:
Sea Crest will develop and implement innovative strategies that will help us build an economically diverse community served by a stable cohort of incredible teachers. As a result of our financial health, we will be able to enhance the overall educational experience for our students, secure our role as a long-term asset to the Half Moon Bay community, and plant the seeds for the future.
Direction 3: Invest in the Future
Initiatives:
● Initiate a study to identify the most important factors for recruiting and retaining faculty and staff – and focus our limited resources accordingly –so that we cement our status as a great place to work.
● Develop a financial model that transparently and sustainably addresses the growing need for financial aid and desire to have a student body from an economically diverse background.
● Establish an alumni relations program to foster a sense of community and encourage financial support from a more diversified cohort.
● Update our facilities master plan to include more areas for project and place based learning, school growth, and sustainability initiatives.
Direction 4: Leave It Better Than We Found It
Goal:
Through our environmental footprint, commitment to cultivate a community of diversity and belonging and responsibility to be stewards of our coastal communities, we believe that we can empower our students to carry this responsibility to lead with service and empathy throughout their lives.
Direction 4: Leave It Better Than We Found It
nitiatives:
● Identify using best practices in diversity, equity and belonging goals across all systems of Sea Crest School
● Foster a sense of belonging and joy through cultural celebrations and traditions
● Work to expand the impact of Sea Crest Scholars program and launch an endowment for flexible tuition
● Establish a parent education series that supports the school to home partnership while opening these offerings up to the greater coastal community in an effort to lift all boats
● Incorporate service learning projects deeper into the curriculum, connecting academic learning with community engagement
● Audit the way in which our footprint as an institution leaves an environmental mark and create multi-year goals to improve our environmental impact
“The SEA, once it casts its SPELL, holds one in its net OF WONDER forever.”
-Jacques Cousteau