Program and Faculty Theme Windward School seeks to embrace and broaden the present environment that encourages teachers to collaborate, think creatively, and design programs that teach our students to be adaptive, creative, and self-motivated individuals.
Educational Program Goal 1: Review the curriculum and adapt our programs as needed to prepare our students to be successful and productive students and members of the 21st century community. Suggested implementation steps: • Research and develop active learning programs that promote collaboration and a dynamic learning environment. • Spearhead an ongoing active learning studio science coalition with our university partners and committed secondary schools across the country. • Partner with the nation’s top universities to develop a Windward writing and rhetoric program that dovetails with best practices at the university level. • Seek additional relationships with universities and college preparatory schools to develop cutting edge programs designed to meet the exciting new opportunities and challenges of education in the 21st century.
Program and Faculty Theme
Student Services
Goal 2: Coordinate and refine the school’s student services programs to help students to become well balanced young adults who engage actively in the life of the school and are supported in their efforts to reach their full potential. Suggested implementation steps: • Integrate the college counseling process with the other counseling programs, including academic advisors, student advisory, community service, parent-related programs, and other co-curricular activities. • Research and promote effective strategies for teachers, parents, administrators, counselors and parents to work together to inspire our students to be responsible, caring, well-informed, ethical, prepared, and well-balanced young adults. • Evaluate new ways to provide leadership opportunities for our students. • Faculty, administrators and student leaders should work together to maintain and develop a school culture that places the highest value on academic honesty and ethical behavior.
Program and Faculty Theme
Faculty, Administration, and Staff
Goal 3: Recruit and retain excellent teachers, administrators, and staff who embrace the core values of the school, and ensure that they are supported in their professional growth. Suggested implementation steps: • Build upon the effective faculty mentoring program. • Evaluate and refine the Meaningful Faculty Evaluation program. • Develop an ongoing outreach and networking effort to identify top level candidates for future openings and collaborative partnerships. • Allocate sufficient resources to assure competitive compensation that matches our high expectations for performance and professional growth.
Community Theme Windward School is a vibrant, dynamic community that has much to contribute to the world at large. We seek to clarify and define Windward’s unique character and strengths, and communicate those strengths to the wider community. At the same time that we look outward, we bring the best of the global community to Windward.
Collaboration and Outreach Goal 4: Define our strengths and convey them to the local community, to feeder schools, to other local schools, to universities, and to the wider community. Suggested implementation steps: • Effectively communicate the qualities that make Windward a premier college preparatory school that provides dynamic programs in a nurturing, inclusive community. • Strengthen bonds between Windward and the university community through ongoing dialog, outreach and educational partnerships. • Collaborate with other premier college preparatory schools across the country and throughout the world to develop signature, forward thinking programs.
Community Theme
Inclusive Community and Global Citizenship
Goal 5: Prepare our students for effective participation in the 21st century global community through increased exposure to other cultures and communities, and make certain that Windward continues to be a welcoming, inclusive community. Suggested implementation steps: • Promote economic diversity in our student body through a strong financial aid program, made possible by ongoing Annual Fund and endowment support. • Expand the curriculum to develop multi-cultural understanding. • Expand opportunities for students to interact with students and faculty from different backgrounds in our local community and across the globe. • Evaluate ways to increase cross-curricular programs.
Community Theme
Alumni Community
Goal 6: Develop an alumni program that strengthens the relationships within the alumni community and between the alumni and the school. Suggested implementation steps: • Develop an active alumni council that teams with the Windward Alumni Coordinator to strengthen the relationships within the alumni community and between the alumni and the school. • Provide opportunities for alumni to mentor fellow alumni and Windward students. • Refine and develop Windward’s communications program with alumni.
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Windward’s 40 Anniversary Theme As we celebrate the school’s 40th anniversary, Windward is a thriving institution that provides a dynamic educational program in its nurturing and inclusive community.
Building the Windward Endowment Goal 7: Provide financial resources for the future development and continued success of the school.
Suggested implementation steps: • Complete our current capital campaign. • Steadily build the Windward Endowment to support the school’s strategic goals.
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Windward’s 40 Anniversary Theme
Creating a Culture of Giving
Goal 8: Work with all members of the Windward Community to further develop a strong culture of giving.
Suggested implementation steps: • Develop new opportunities for parents, grandparents, alumni, and other community members to mentor and support Windward students and each other. • Establish additional ways for parents, grandparents, and alumni to be active members of the school community. • Promote and expand a culture of giving in which all community members provide philanthropic support for the school and its strategic goals. • Create an ongoing major gifts committee.