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Foundations for
the Future
Tradition, Innovation, Excellence
The Strategic Plan for
Friends School of Baltimore
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Foundations for
the Future
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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Developing 21st Century Citizens
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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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1.
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.
2.
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.
3.
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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Amplifying Our Impact
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.
2.
We will develop a series of outreach programs that
build upon our core values and amplify our impact
within the broader community.
3.
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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Sustaining Our Vision
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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1.
We will fund the efforts necessary to assemble an
outstanding staff and establish ourselves as the employer
of choice among regional independent schools.
2.
We will raise the money needed to support greater
economic diversity in our student population.
3.
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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Developing 21st Century Citizens
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
Amplifying Our Impact
Develop a program in Quaker principles and practices
Design and implement community outreach programs
Execute a comprehensive marketing campaign
Sustaining Our Vision
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
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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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Commencing
Fall 2007