Final document of the Administrative Team's goals for 2016-2017

1. Westminster School
Leadership Team
2016-2017 Goals

2. President’s Goals 2016-17
I. Strategic Initiatives
- building the foundation for a successful capital
campaign
- implementing first phase of new student support
system
- developing data management systems and
organizational structures

3. President’s Goals 2016-17
II. Leadership Development
- new Upper School Head
- Business Office personnel transitions
- professional development retreats for the
Leadership Team

4. President’s Goals 2016-17
III. Successful completion of Westminster’s
re-accreditation process
IV. Outreach
V. JanTerm course

5. Thad
• Improve the Employment Ecosystem
• Grow Adult Learning and Leadership

6. Whit
Goal 1- Create the structures and pathways that allow for true trans-
disciplinary learning (not isolated to a specific faculty member or group of
teachers, not serendipitous, not a major culminating event– part of the LS
fabric)
Goal 2- Developing a stronger leadership team who better understands and
implements best practice as it relates to the art and science of leadership
Goal 3- Develop better skills personally around coherent leadership– figuring
out the right drivers and frameworks for more action-oriented leadership
(preventing: initiative overload, fragmentation, splintered acts, reactive
decisions, etc.)
Potential (Collective) Senior Leadership Goals to tackle: Student support &
cultural competence??
“To succeed, fly like a bumblebee…”

7. Marjorie
• Complete and adopt a team developed Strategic
Enrollment Plan with buy in from stakeholders
• Streamline Office Organization and Increase
Productivity
• Increase my leadership and managerial skills so I
can better lead the teams of people involved in the
enrollment management functions.

8. TD Goals
2016-17
1.Student Support - Mental Health/Sports Psychology,
Diversity Initiative, Sports Medicine Space
Partnerships
2.Teacher Coach Model - Professional Development
and Retention Model
3.College Counseling - Information Dissemination,
Parent Partner Program, Coach Education
4.Budgeting Process - Inequities, Inefficiencies

9. DANETTE’S GOAL IDEAS
• Build leadership capacity - inspire/ facilitate vertical
development for leaders in the MS division
• Build my own capacity to build capacity (requires both
vertical and horizontal development)
• Develop and support the structures for high quality
cross-disciplinary collaboration - both academic and
social-emotional.
• Continue work on Student Support Services

10. Goals Trask 2016/2017
1.Faculty Engagement & Capacity Building
I.Deepen the level of personal connection and commitment each
faculty member feels toward the school and its mission – clarity of
roles and expectations; leadership development of various teams;
identify/support high potentials
II.Investigate/experiment with structures to support cross curricular
and cross divisional collaboration
2. Student Support
Examine current systems for student support with an eye to
building greater class cohesion, a more personalized knowledge of
each child and, ultimately, better service for each student.
3. Outreach
I. Getting to know the community- faculty, students, parents, alums
II. STEAM PLC/JanTERM

11. Glaude’s Goals
Developing data management systems & business intelligence structures
IT Services personnel transitions, mid-level staff development
Digital tools and resources refresh including 1:1 program, SIS, Website
Programmatic growth across Intern program, coding, & design thinking

12. Goals FY17 Ops Team
Team - Will be ‘wildly successful’ when operations are executing at a high level, and
talent and resources can be identified for trade-offs
Goal for Wendy: aid transition of a leadership team that will enhance
Westminster’s strategic position.
HR - Maximize human capital recruitment and management to employ
leaders/influencers.
Facilities – Manage teams to protect and renew campus
Enterprise Services & Programs - Evaluate based on ability to ‘amplify and fit’
school’s ‘brand.
Finance - Dashboard accurate timely info. for decision-making.
Special Projects - Identify resources that can be reallocated; educate school
constituencies of responsibility for accurate and immediate collection of data.

13. Emilie’s Goals
• Complete campaign preparation
activities for successful advance phase
launch
• Implement the refreshed Westminster
brand utilizing innovative storytelling
and enhanced systems to align
communications across campus
• Develop a diverse network of deep
relationships
• Build a high performing team

14. Bob Ryshke
• Collaborate with Jim to successfully complete the SAIS
accreditation process this year.
• Collaborate with Leadership Team members to “push
out” a leadership curriculum to our faculty and staff.
• Network with Westminster (& Drew) academic leaders to
effectively implement CFT programs that are central to
L4L, the school’s vision and mission, and our funders.
• Partner with Westminster (& Drew) faculty to assist or
facilitate in the development of best teaching practices.

15. Scoot’s 16-17 GOALS
• Find light in each student and
help that light shine
• Continue to create an
insurmountable competitive
advantage and an atmosphere
of “wholesome intensity”
• Stay focused on the present
but, at the same time, get
prepared for a new transition
in my life

16. Jim
• 1. Support the ramp up Student Support
• 2. Learn & Celebrate the Lower and Middle
experience
• 3. Herd the Stray Cats of Civic Engagement and
STEAM
• 4. Use data to understand the similarities,
differences and possibilities of greater alignment