Friends School Baltimore SP 2007

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Foundations for

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Tradition, Innovation, Excellence

The Strategic Plan for

Friends School of Baltimore


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Foundations for

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Tradition, Innovation, Excellence

The Strategic Plan for

Friends School of Baltimore


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F R I E N D S S C H O O L O F B A L T I M O R E

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The Society of Friends of Baltimore

founded Friends School in 1784 to

provide a Guarded Education to Quaker

children. Through its long history, our

School has pursued its mission, all the

while embracing the dual challenge of

sustaining our core Quaker beliefs and

actively participating in the wider

society. Today we continue that journey

by introducing this Strategic Plan,

Foundations for the Future.m

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Evolving from a yearlong process of gathering and

evaluating information and listening to the hopes and

concerns of hundreds of our constituents, the Strategic

Plan reflects a shared belief that the combination of our

Quaker traditions and our innovative spirit positions us

ideally to meet the challenges of our changing times. Our

aspirations for the future of Friends School include:

Developing 21st Century Citizens

Friends will nurture in each student the spiritual,

intellectual, physical and creative strengths to make a

positive contribution to our complex and changing world.

Amplifying Our Impact

Friends will realize our most fundamental values and our

guiding mission by forging transformative relationships

beyond the boundaries of our campus. Through our

actions, we will widen and deepen the understanding of

our unique identity within our own community and in

the region at large.

Sustaining Our Vision

Friends will provide the resources to achieve and sustain

our goals, in order to offer the life-changing experience

of a Friends education to future generations.


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Chapter 1

Friends School believes that the impact our students

have in the world is the ultimate measure of our

performance. Like many schools, we strive for academic

excellence, emphasize the importance of spiritual

and physical growth, and nurture and guide the

creative energy of our students. At Friends, though, we

also assume a greater responsibility. We distinguish

ourselves and keep faith with our Quaker heritage

by preparing each child to carry his or her learning

forward into the community.

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Our academic program and School activities must

develop in our students the skills, talents and habits

of mind necessary to successfully engage their

communities and assume leadership roles. To achieve

these objectives, we must have an extraordinaryfaculty, administration and staff who are mindful

of their responsibility to serve as both teacher and

guide, as well as a School community composed of a

rich mixture of cultures and ethnicities, learning

together and from each other, in a truly inclusive

educational environment.

We have set three goals that will move us toward

this vision:


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We will vigorously and continuously review our

academic and co-curricular programs to ensure

that our students are developing the skills and values

they will require to thrive inand ultimately shape

the world they encounter beyond Friends School.

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We will attract, develop and retain a talented and

committed faculty, administration and staff who will

reflect the diversity of the world in which we live.

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We will continue to work toward a student body whose

composition fully mirrors the ethnic, racial, and

economic variety of the wider community, and we

will rededicate ourselves to ensuring that all our

daily interactions help to create a community

defined by understanding and inclusion.


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Chapter 2

At Friends School, we believe that the Quaker tradition

of letting our lives speak challenges us to make a

distinctive impact in the world by actively living out

our fundamental values. While in its earliest days Friends

was composed entirely of Quaker families, Quakers are

now just a small minority of our students, faculty,

staff and administration. We recognize and embrace the

challenges that accompany this shift, and we know that

we must work with diligence and purpose to remain

true to the ideals on which our School was founded.


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If we are to live out our values, all members of our

community must have a deep understanding of Quaker

philosophy the kind of understanding that can arise

only from the direct and ongoing experience of

Quakerism in practice.

We have developed three initiatives that will enable us

to attain this goal:


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1.

We will create a program to allow and encourage our

students, our families, and our staff to regularly explore

and experience the Quaker tenets.

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We will develop a series of outreach programs that

build upon our core values and amplify our impact

within the broader community.

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We will enhance the ways in which we communicate

our unique identity, principles, and practices within

and beyond the Friends School community.


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Chapter 3

The 1,000 students enrolled at Friends School are heirs

to the legacy established by the 14 students who first

attended Friends in 1784. As each generation assumes

the responsibility and privilege of stewardship and strives

anew to make a distinctive impact, they know that the

promise of the future rests on the foundation they

create. Our rich legacy and tradition bestow on us the

obligation to pass along to succeeding generations the

transforming experience of a Friends School education.

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The viability of our vision of a community of extra-

ordinary adults nurturing a diverse and inclusive

student body will be determined by our willingness and

ability to secure the necessary resources. That fact

was true in 1784 when Friends Schools first teacher,

Joseph Townsend, earned $40 per quarter, and it

remains true today.

We have adopted three strategies that will secure this

future state:


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We will fund the efforts necessary to assemble an

outstanding staff and establish ourselves as the employer

of choice among regional independent schools.

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We will raise the money needed to support greater

economic diversity in our student population.

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We will enrich all aspects of our students experiences

by ensuring that the Schools grounds and facilities

reflect and reinforce the quality of the education our

students receive and the ambition of our aspirations.


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The Next Steps

The broad participation of our School community

in gathering information for the Strategic Plan

gives us great confidence in their continued support

as we execute the plan. This next stage of the

process will involve a number of Task Forces

formed to focus on these action stepsand will

begin in the fall of 2007:


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Assess the work environment at Friends School

Develop a Best Practices Employee Attractionand Retention Program

Implement a recruiting outreach program

Study the academic and co-curricular programs, developingdetailed plans for improvements

Review all student support services, providing specific

recommendations for any necessary changes Develop a comprehensive diversity plan

Establish a standing Diversity Committee of the Board of Trustees

Increase significantly the number of people of color on our faculty

Increase student diversity


Develop a program in Quaker principles and practices

Design and implement community outreach programs

Execute a comprehensive marketing campaign


Increase our endowment by $10,000,000

Conduct a $15,000,000 Capital Campaign and completethe campus development described in the Master Plan

Develop plans to increase our annual revenue by $100,000

Complete all necessary renovations of campus facilities


Strategic Planning Committee of the

Friends School Board of Trustees

Bill SmillieClerk

Sue Carnell

Alison Fass 77

Wallace Gatewood

Ali Gilbert 07

Deb Haag

Katie Hearn 81

Bob Heaton 56

Mindy Klausner

Howard Loewenberg

Matt MiccicheHead of School

Gerry Mullan

Dorothy Powe

Mark Stromdahl


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For a copy of the complete Strategic Plan, for

periodic updates on the status of the plan, or for

information about becoming involved with a Task

Force, visit our website at www.friendsbalt.org or

contact Greta Rutstein, the Director of Academic

Administration, at 410-649-3263.


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FriendsSchool of Baltimore

5114 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21210-2096

Telephone: 410-649-3200 Fax: 410-649-3213

www.friendsbalt.org


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