Vision
Saint Joseph High School strives to be the premier college preparatory
school in Southern Connecticut. The school provides a learning
environment that embraces the Gospel values of the Roman Catholic faith
and promotes a commitment to family and community. The school
prepares our young women and young men to realize their potential,
helps them excel in higher education and provides a foundation to guide
them throughout their lives.
Values
To support the vision, Saint Joseph High School will continue to focus
on all of the following:
- Providing an environment where the faculty, administration, support
organizations, and students, by example and program, actively promote
- Roman Catholic teaching and values (faith, morals, ethics,
and spirituality)
- Family values
- Community responsibilities
- Respect and diversity
- Developing educated and creative thinkers who exhibit superior
intellectual and communication skills
- Instilling passion for learning and teaching in a safe and secure
environment
- Providing a strong, holistic foundation to enable all students
to enter and succeed in competitive higher learning institutions
- Providing a strong program for social and physical development
in an atmosphere of healthy competition
Rev.
06/15/04
Critical Success Factors
Achieving OptimalEnrollment is the key success factor. It
leads to Financial Strength, which enables the best programs
for Educational Excellence, which in turn generates the Outstanding
Reputation that enables the cycle to repeat with the augmentation
that comes from Successful Fund Raising.
ST. JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL STRATEGIC PLAN
Revised 06/15/04
PROGRAMS
Spiritual, Academic, and Co-Curricular
St. Joseph High School is charged in the vision statement to provide
all students with the highest quality programs. Therefore we
must:
- Ensure the continual infusion of our Catholicity into our programs
so that the teachings and dogma of the Catholic Church are well
understood by graduates
- Revise our academic profile to be more distinctive
- Enhance the spiritual and intellectual climate and atmosphere
- Provide additional student leadership and responsibility opportunities
- Evaluate programs to assure they support the vision statement
- Ensure appropriate and adequate human and material resources for
programs
- Revise the technology plan with a focus on the development of necessary
student skills
- Prepare students for a life that will be increasingly influenced
by global events
- Provide for the development of broad and adaptive intellectual
abilities
- Emphasize and promote interpersonal relationships among all constituents, especially
students and teachers
- Ensure the continual building of self-esteem and self-respect
Remember the students!
ENROLLMENT and MARKETING
07/01/03
As a very competitive Catholic college preparatory institution, St.
Joseph High School will strive to maintain optimum enrollment while
maintaining academic excellence, fostering spiritual formation, and
nurturing personal development. In order to accomplish this we must:
- Establish a marketing team
- Continue to attract quality students by creating and implementing
a comprehensive
- marketing plan
- Continually define optimal enrollment and establish enrollment
goals through
- projections based on the collection and analysis of demographic
profiles and trends
- Develop a prioritized criteria to guide admission decisions
- Continually identify what distinguishes St. Joseph High School
and what makes the school successful
- Expand the applicant pool with a focus on diversity and exceptional
academic ability
- Reorganize and better manage the web site
Remember the students
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
07/01/03
The roles of the President, Principal, and executive staff are to
provide the leadership for St. Joseph High School to attain its vision.
The leadership must provide the visionary compass to allow the St.
Joseph High School community to assemble its map to success.
This can best be accomplished by:
- Presenting an Annual Report to the Board on progress made in the
strategic plan
- Advocating for a relationship between St. Joseph High School and
the Diocese which is in the best interest of both organizations
- Ensuring that the interests of St. Joseph High School and all of
its constituent associations and groups are in alignment
- Ensuring that St. Joseph High School executive staff, professional
staff, and support staff are provided the necessary empowerment,
resources, and support to achieve their objectives
- Continuously instilling ownership in the vision statement by providing
all constituent groups with opportunities to be involved in school
improvement research and plans
- Performing SWOT (strength, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)
analyses on a regular basis.
- Maintaining an up to date strategic plan.
Remember the students!
OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES
07/01/03
To deliver the excellence called for by the vision statement, every
operational function and process must be efficient and positioned to
be responsive, proactive, and flexible. This requires that:
- Operational functions be held accountable to deliver and exceed
expectations, with a special focus on safety and security.
- Operational functions be properly aligned to the vision statement.
- Annual plans be designed to contain objectives that provide quantum
leaps in quality, service, and attitude.
- Operational functions be provided with the necessary resources
to meet their objectives. Resources include, but are not limited
to:
Level
and quality of staff including professional development and
succession plans
Safety,
security, and crisis interventions
Policies
and procedures
Support
(i.e.: technology and structure within St. Joseph High School)
Remember the students!
PROFESSIONAL STAFF
07/01/03
The professional staff is the primary driver and provider to deliver
the vision. Strategies and programs need to maximize the talents and
creativity of the professional staff. A comprehensive plan for
professional staff must include:
- Provision for regular in-service programs that strengthen
and advance the teaching
of our Roman Catholic faith and Gospel values.
- Individual and collective professional development plans
- Optimal assignments to
maximize results in the learning environment
- Succession plans
- An evaluation process
that supports the vision statement
- Incentives for and recognition
of professional staff
- Encouragement of pedagogical
innovation
- Promotion of professional
staff diversity
- The attraction and retention
of the most talented, dedicated professional staff
- The creation of a more
effective leadership model for the position of department chair
- Assessment and evaluation
of the collective bargaining agreement as it impacts St. Joseph
High School
Remember the students!
FINANCES
Operational, Capital, Investment, Custodial
07/01/03
To achieve its vision
the school must be financially self sufficient and fiscally responsible
while maintaining a reasonable tuition. To this end we must:
- Effect financial accountability
from all St. Joseph constituencies and in turn the administration
and board must provide similar accountability to all constituencies.
- Ensure adequate internal
financial controls, monitoring, and reporting
- Implement budgeting and
forecasting systems that provide an annual framework and embody
monetary priorities
- Focus and expand financial
resources and potential resources for non tuition revenue
- Establish and prioritize
timetables for all projects requiring financial resources
- Establish processes to
authorize outlays for specific purposes from non tuition revenues
- Consider debt use in appropriate
circumstances
- Ensure adherence to the
Investment Policy Statement
- Ensure financial policies
are consistent with needs and challenges
- Continue to strive for
long-term affordability and financial accessibility
- Continue working towards
long term financial self sufficiency (through capital and
endowment funds growth)
Remember the students!
DEVELOPMENT/ALUMNI
07/01/03
Non-tuition revenue sources and endowment funding must be increased
and maximized to achieve the vision statement. This will necessitate
that:
- All functions in this area be effectively managed to maximize funding
results
- A clear understanding of present and future Diocesan relationships
be maintained
- A comprehensive plan to develop leads, programs, and new revenue
sources be established
- Annual funding targets be established
- The philanthropic culture of the St. Joseph High School community
be strengthened
- There be significant growth in all endowment areas
- The roles of the Development Office, the Board, and the Alumni
Council be expanded
- An ongoing capital fund raising effort be maintained
- The base of the alumni volunteer networks and programs be broadened
- Communications with alumni be strengthened
- Alumni participation in financial support programs be expanded
and enhanced
Remember the students!
FACILITIES
07/01/03
The facilities are presently in overall good condition, but will require
continued maintenance and improvement to fulfill our vision. To
achieve this we must:
- Develop a clear understanding with the Diocese regarding short
and long term responsibilities in light of diminishing Diocesan financial
support
- Maintain an ongoing assessment program to identify areas requiring
action
- Search for and identify opportunities to more fully utilize the
facilities
- Establish priorities for the implementation of the campus master
plan
- Develop recommendations for maintenance and capital projects to
be funded by the operational and/or capital budgets
- Maintain a safe and secure campus
Remember the students!
ADVISORY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
07/01/03
The Board, while advisory by design, is an integral part of the St.
Joseph High School community. The Board should continue to provide
leadership and oversight to assist St. Joseph
High School community to attain its vision. Therefore:
- Provision should be made to ensure competent, professional, and
dedicated individuals are recruited to serve on and lead the Board
- Activities and members of the Board should become more visible
to the St. Joseph High School community to elevate the vision and
to highlight strategies to deliver success
- Diversity in the Board’s makeup must be assured
- Development considerations and involvement need to be a Board priority
Remember
the students!
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