This is our Moment: Strategic Visioning
Talent
Guiding Questions
- How can Milken be a place known for teaching talent (both talented teachers and teaching talented students)?
- How can we invest in people as Milken’s most important resource?
A SCHOOL FOR TEACHING TALENT
Over the next 5 years, Milken's commitment talent will be expressed through attracting, growing, and retaining excellent faculty, staff, students, families, and administration who support our mission, live their core values, and believe in Milken's educational philosophy.
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Strategic Goal 1:
Attract, grow, and retain excellent faculty, staff, and administration who support our mission, live our core values, and believe in our educational philosophy.
Rationale
- To respond to the research that teachers are the most important factor in students’ academic and personal development.
- To attract talented faculty and staff which is a defining factor in a competitive marketplace of schools.
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Programmatic Need:
- Develop robust and industry-leading mentorship, personalized professional development, and internship programs.
- Consider formal partnership with graduate or undergraduate schools of education.
- Develop training programs for Hebrew language teachers and Jewish educators to address the diminishing pipeline.
- Name positions to honor faculty and/or administrators for extraordinary achievements, to help retain faculty, and to secure the creation of new positions without requiring school funding.
- Reinvigorate faculty trip to Israel.
- Develop new faculty retreats to immerse faculty in core values and mission.
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Facilities Need:
- Develop divisional hubs--communal faculty workspaces for each division with adjacent administrative offices.
- Develop a learning center with a dedicated faculty area including meeting rooms and incubator space.
- Consider staff affordable housing close to campus given the rising costs of housing near Milken.
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Strategic Goal 2:
To remain meaningfully engaged with our alumni, serving as a resource for their professional, personal, and spiritual development.
Rationale
- To develop a robust admission pipeline.
- To develop a strong culture of friendraising and fundraising.
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Programmatic Needs:
- Develop and implement a comprehensive plan that articulates our unique value to the internal and external community.
- Define and live “The Milken Way.”
- Study ways to attract talented prospective students including possible scholarship models.
- Build the Grade 6 program to offer an entry point for public school students.
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Facilities Need:
- Create a reimagined Upper School physical space that represents our core values.
- Rethink Upper School classrooms to reflect and enable our educational philosophy.
- Rethink campus aesthetics so that it sends messages of excitement and pride.
At Milken Community School, we think education is more than what you know. Our School, founded on Jewish values, is about who our children can become and how they can help others become who they might be. Because the world our children will create tomorrow is born in the School we build today, our mission is to educate our children so they can surpass us.
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