1. 2011-12St. Gregory’s 32ndyear ThinkingForward: Character, Scholarship, Leadership, Innovation

4. Character Advisory: A connected community Middle School Mission Days Kindness learning: Middle School programs and work with our new counselor Diversity Day One School, One City program: Connecting service, sustainability, school-meeting, and advisory.

8. Scholarship Academically Adrift: 40 pages of reading, 20 pages of writing in at least one course each semester. Curricular Changes in Upper School: More requirements & Choice for students, Greater Depth over Breadth Curricular Changes in Middle School: More Rigor, more requirements, more choice MAP, CWRA, other testing Information Literacy Advances Professional Development: Modeling Learning Student-produced video: What is the role? On-line textbooks: Pushing forward Reverse Instruction for more PBL PBL

20. Five Areas for Advance 1) . LI school-wide curriculum, scope and sequence A. MS mission days (Corinne, Mike, Heather)--designing scope and sequence for LIB. Re-tooling the US curriculum to provide more breadth, more innovation, and more US faculty involvement (Kate, Fred, Dennis, Laura) 2) Coordination and communication of leadership opportunities--existing, new, internal, external. Advisory, all-school meetings, one-school one-city program (Rachel steering, Lorie, FA, Jonathan, Laura) B. Re-shaping co-curricular programming to increase LI opportunities, training, and practice (Kate, Fred, Dennis, Heather) MS senate/SC--Heather/Fred--Fred will discuss faculty coordination with Heather

21. Five Areas for Advance 3. Summit: Fred, Corinne, Laura, Mike recruiting and facebook publicitydesigningplanning7th grade and 4th grade 4. Faculty Involvement & PD LI rubrics, guiding questions, and training towards a common LI language (Kate, Jonathan, Fred, Mike will help wordsmith) Brown bag optional PD sessions on leadership and innovation teaching and learning: Jonathan and Fred

22. Five Areas for Advance 5. LI diploma program (Kate, Fred, Jonathan, Dennis) Write clearer criteria for earning creditsCreate info-graphicshelping students understand why they want the diploma and how they can get there

26. Thinking Forward:Unifying Themes from A Guide to Becoming a School of the Future The Schools are Academically Demanding Classrooms extend beyond the school walls, actively engaging students in the world around them Digital technologies and a global perspective infuse all aspects of the curriculum Vibrant arts programs help promote creativity, self-expression, self-discipline, and flexibility

27. Thinking Forward:Unifying Themes from A Guide to Becoming a School of the Future The adults are actively engaged with one another and with the students in a process of continuous learning A culture of engagement and support invites participation, innovation, and a “growth mindset” on the part of teachers and students Transformational leadership challenges the status quo, draws out the issues, navigates through conflict, and mobilizes people and resources to do the adaptive work necessary to create and sustain effective change

28. NAIS President Pat Bassett: Schools which are not Schools of the future will not be schools in the future. St. Gregory is, it is clear, more than most, truly on the road to becoming a school of the future. Let’s keep going!