Strategic Plan 2018
The Board of Trustees of Trinity School has completed a six-month project of creating a new Strategic Plan for the School for the next three to five years. The process began with a series of focus group discussions with students, parents, faculty, alumni, grandparents, Trinity Church leadership and membership, and members of the neighborhood to identify those issues and themes most important to the larger Trinity community. The Board then engaged Independent School Management to help analyze questionnaire feedback, our market, and key data about the School’s finances to develop a plan that will empower Trinity to go “from strength to strength” in the near and long term.
Among the many points of the plan, here are some of the most important and exciting:
Campus Master Plan
Campus Security
A DVA N C E M E N T
CAMPUS
PROGRAM
Facilities Renovations
Professional Development
Pink House Utilization
Marketing
Technology Exploration and Innovation
Family Needs
Community Outreach
Academic Competition
Inclusion
Church/School Programming
CAMPUS
Facilities Renovations
This summer and next summer, Trinity will conduct extensive upgrades to existing structures to improve our facility’s appearance and functionality. Phase 1 – Kitchen, Bishop Polk Hall bathrooms, Warner Hall hallways, Coupland Hall stairwells and bathrooms, and Chiggy Rhodes Gym bathrooms. Phase 2 – Coupland hallways and classroom floors, Edith Aiken Library, Warner classrooms, Pink House and Les Enfants playgrounds and play structures.
Campus Master Plan
In collaboration with the Vestry of Trinity Church, the School Board will engage an architectural firm to finalize a design for the campus, with new learning and recreation spaces to better serve our children and renewed spaces to meet the needs of our growing Church. Part of this planning will include collaborative strategies for addressing Trinity’s long-term capital needs.
Campus Security
The Board will conduct a careful review and upgrade to the security considerations of the campus, continuing work on risk management and emergency procedure renewal.
PROGRAM
Technology Exploration and Innovation
The School will increase the visibility of, and opportunities for, technology activities with a long-term goal of establishing Trinity as the premier educational institution in New Orleans for hands-on technological innovation for elementary-aged children.
Community Outreach
The School will build a new Community Outreach Program that exemplifies our mission of building upstanders with a sense of moral responsibility to make a positive difference in the world. The program will emphasize hands-on, interactive service to heighten students’ awareness of the needs of the wider New Orleans community and encourage them to find commonality with those from different circumstances.
Inclusion
The School will better understand and address the challenges inherent in ensuring a welcoming, comfortable, and inclusive environment for all Trinity students and their families, especially those drawn from beyond our majority demographic.
PROGRAM
Family Needs
The School will study and better understand and accommodate the diverse needs of today’s Trinity families including such considerations as schedule, calendar, and extended care needs, especially those of families with two working parents.
Academic Competition
The School will expand opportunities for students to compete academically, attending existing contests, as well as initiating and hosting such competitions to highlight Trinity’s academic advantage.
Church/School Programming
The School will work with the Church to develop opportunities for the two entities to enjoy shared, synergistic activities on a more regular basis.
A D VA N C E M E N T
Professional Development
As part of our commitment to building the best faculty in New Orleans, the School will seek to further promote faculty growth and enrichment by diverting significant additional funds over the next five years toward Professional Development.
Pink House Faculty Expansion
The Board has committed to having three sections of students in the Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Grades with a maximum of 18 students per section as the prevailing model for Pink House enrollment.
Marketing
The Board and Administration will design and implement a new plan to best market the School to articulate the distinctive programs and outstanding opportunities offered at Trinity and to increase our brand awareness in the greater New Orleans area. As part of this effort, the School will explore existing demographic studies and conduct its own research of the greater New Orleans area to better inform marketing efforts.