This is our Moment: Strategic Visioning
Experience
Guiding Questions
- How can we create a student experience that reflects our core values and engages every student both during their time at Milken and beyond?
- How can the student experience at Milken create lifelong friendships and lasting support?
LIFELONG FRIENDSHIPS. LASTING SUPPORT.
Over the next 5 years, Milken will invest the developing the experience of their programs through making the emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness central to the student experience and creating a culture of pride and ruach on campus and in the community.
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Strategic Goal 1:
Make emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness central to the student experience.
Rationale
- To respond to the grave national and local data about adolescents and mental health
- To live our core values and to realize our Portrait of the Graduate.
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Facilities Needs:
- Develop a Wellness Center
- Develop outdoor spaces that promote wellness
- Reimagine food services and nutrition on campus
- Partner with a retreat location / camp for orientation and ongoing experiential education
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Programmatic Needs:
- Infuse wellness education into physical education and advisory curriculum as well as all school programming.
- Examine our academic program to identify stressors such as tests, homework, advanced placement program.
- Offer classes, speakers, and ongoing resources on wellness.
- Offer drop-in counselling services for students.
- Invest in training our community in positive psychology and weaving practices into our classrooms.
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Strategic Goal 2:
Create a culture of pride and ruach on campus and in the community.
Rationale
- To raise the profile of Milken by generating positive word of mouth.
- To connect students and families to Milken beyond their years enrolled.
- To move from localized, program-specific pride to school pride.
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Facilities Needs:
- Acquire or build adjacent athletic fields.
- Create shading and lighting for Middle School amphitheater.
- Rethink on-campus signage.
- Reimagine the entrance to campus.
- Create large and small gathering spaces.
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Programmatic Needs:
- Create a structure in which everyone belongs to something greater than themselves (Houses).
- Create mentorship programs for older Milken students to support younger Milken students in their House.
- Upgrade athletic program to increase coaching compensation, require comprehensive coach training, improved communications with parents, and increased collaboration with teaching faculty.
- Execute a comprehensive rebrand of the School.
- Develop a robust student ambassador program .
- Add a retention and recruitment lay leader committee.
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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