Fulfilling Our Strategic Promises
Strategic planning provides an opportunity to contemplate our future. It also keeps us accountable for ongoing improvement. December 2024 marked the conclusion of Crescent School’s four-year strategic roadmap, Fulfilling Our Promise: Strategic Priorities 2020–2024. Significant work was done over these four years to ensure Crescent’s promising future.
“I am very proud of what we achieved throughout this strategic plan. Not only did we accomplish our ambitious goals, we did so while managing a global pandemic and the challenges of delivering a Crescent education during COVID,” says Headmaster Michael Fellin. “There is reason to celebrate the work done to advance the School’s mission, including launching the Crescent Diploma, purchasing the Rumball property, furthering the mandate of the Crescent Centre for Boys’ Education, commencing phase one of the Master Campus Plan, and more than doubling the School’s endowment.”
Fulfilling Our Promise built upon the foundation established in our previous strategic plan. From 2015–2020, the School made considerable inroads concerning Crescent’s academic plan and educational framework, the Crescent Centre for Boys’ Education, and the Master Campus Plan. Over the past four years, the School extended this work to further operationalize the mission and encourage forward thinking.
A school strategy is a living document constantly reviewed and updated as the school and the world around it evolve. At the start of each of the past four academic years, Headmaster Fellin identified goals that aligned with the strategic priorities; these goals cascaded to departments and individuals. In this way, everyone played a role in achieving the School’s strategic objectives.
“Working collaboratively is a hallmark of how we do things at Crescent,” says Fellin. “In this way, we ensure a shared vision for what we hope to become and what we must do together to realize our goals.”
With the strategic priorities from Fulfilling Our Promise met, the School has turned its attention to our next strategic plan. Earlier this fall, a multi-stakeholder (staff, students, parents, Board, and alumni) visioning workshop kicked off the process; a smaller task force from the school’s Executive Team and Board are fine-tuning the document. Our next strategic plan covering 2025 to 2030 will be brought to the Board of Governors in January for approval.
Headmaster Fellin, who is leading this effort, looks forward to the possibilities the new plan will propose but doesn’t want to lose sight of what the School has already accomplished. “Before we identify our next set of strategic priorities, it is important to pause and reflect on what has been achieved,” says Fellin.
Click here to review the significant outcomes from the 2020–2024 strategic plan.
