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Strategic Plan 2022–2027
Living Our Core Values and Stretching for Continuous Improvement

Introduction

The PBS mission and core values have stood the test of time for over four decades. Community members regularly refer to them as the foundation for everything we do. We also have a high regard for the quality of the PBS educational experience. We want to inspire learning that actively encourages our students to live our core values every day.

The PBS Strategic Plan 2022–2027 is rooted in our core job of educating students. It is the result of a rigorous discussion process that included data, research, and multiple perspectives from 47 volunteers. We learned important things about our school through this process. Our program is designed to challenge every student to achieve their academic potential and develop their emotional intelligence. Additionally, our school is highly valued for inspiring lifelong learners and a strong, engaged community.

The Strategic Plan is also grounded in our conviction that a great school like PBS always desires to be even better with actionable, achievable initiatives. We look forward to investing further in PBS for our current and future students. Thank you for your support!
 

 

PBS's Actionable and Achievable Initiatives

The Strategic Plan has eight initiatives. Success will be defined by how well we act on achieving these initiatives. With that in mind, we designed an Implementation Dashboard to ensure we remain focused on and accountable to the successful implementation of each initiative. This dashboard:

  • Keeps us grounded in the big picture of the Strategic Plan
  • Articulates annual actions necessary to be be successful with each initiative in the Plan
  • Identifies a team to drive the work and be responsible for each initiative 
  • Allows us to track progress with opportunities to fine-tune and adapt based on real-time challenges
  • Defines what success looks like in 2027 with quantitative and qualitative measurements
  • Clarifies the impact of the Strategic Plan with differentiators that position PBS well in a changing market

We want to be transparent with the PBS community on how we are acting to achieve success with the Strategic Plan 2022–2027. The table below draws information from the Implementation Dashboard and will be updated, changed, and revised as needed.

DASHBOARD of 8 Initiatives – and What Success Looks Like in 2027

FULL Version: 8 Initiatives

These eight institutional commitments will require focused investments of time and resources in staff, budgeting, and fundraising. In addition, we will incorporate implementation steps and operational priorities into annual board and administrative goals.

Reference: PBS Strategic Plan 2022–2027

Love of Learning

#1

Champion faculty and staff as our most essential asset by transforming compensation and incentive plans to invest in and retain talented educators who are critical to student development, curriculum outcomes, and positive workplace culture.

#2

Innovate the curriculum so that students reach their full potential by articulating clear learning outcomes, designing an updated curriculum map, addressing gaps through ongoing program review, and supporting faculty to execute consistent program delivery and effective differentiated instruction.

#3

Integrate research-based Social Justice Standards to create a deeper focus on DEIJ as core to student learning, necessary for their achievement, and essential to living our PBS mission and values.

#4

Expand and enhance indoor classrooms and outdoor spaces with engaging, welcoming, and intentional areas to effectively support current and future programs, ELC classroom needs, student play-based and exploratory learning, faculty collaboration, and administrative spaces.

Community, Courage, and Kindness

#5

Advance justice and equity by appointing a full-time leader and adding resources that will integrate bold DEIJ commitments into the fabric of our community, particularly parent education and outreach, curriculum development, recruitment and retention of diverse faculty and families, and affinity groups.

#6

Reimagine tuition and comprehensive support services to expand access to a PBS education and prioritize inclusion and retention of these families as essential to the core of our community.

 

#7

Transform and expand the MPR footprint into a welcoming and inclusive space for all-school gatherings, presentation of student work, student performances, and building community bonds.

#8

Inform and enable success for PBS’s initiatives with a major gifts program that inspires donors to support our strategic plan with motivational giving opportunities that have a direct impact on students.