2022 - 2025 Strategic Plan
We are excited to present our 2022-2025 Strategic Plan. This plan is the result of collaboration, consultation and inclusion of all stakeholders within our community. Building on what has made us a highly sought-after school while casting an eye to the future, we're confident this next season of Emmanuel College will be a bright one!
2022-25 Strategic Plan
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Dan Brown, Principal I commend to you our 2022-2025 Strategic Plan, with our new vision and purpose statements that capture the heart of Emmanuel College as a provider of Christian education of the highest quality. This plan is the result of a collaborative and excellence in academic, sporting, highly rewarding process involving our board, creative arts, or in our broad offering of company members, students, parents and extra-curricular activities, we believe that staff. As we look to the future of the College, each child deserves the opportunity to it is critical that the voices of these key become their best self, and to experience stakeholders are heard in shaping that future joy along the journey. and I thank those who contributed their perspectives and expertise. What we have At Emmanuel, becoming your best self is created together will influence the decisions, more than just an individual pursuit. As a conversations and investments we make in caring Christian community, we are shaping this next season of Emmanuel College. people of good character who go out to engage intelligently with the world, What has not changed is our motto and pursuing truth and inspiring positive change. core values. Our motto, “To Know, To Serve”, The world needs these types of people. and the Emmanuel Compass, with its eight key character traits, remain at the heart of this new strategic plan as they do each day in all College endeavours. Building on the strong foundation of our Compass values, our 2022-2025 Strategic Plan reiterates our unwavering desire to see each child achieve his or her fullest potential. Whether that be Dan Brown, Principal 2022-25 Strategic Plan 03
Tracey Hickey Board Chair Our 2022-2025 Strategic Plan These pillars and strategic imperatives will provides a strong framework for guide our dedicated staff as they innovate, adapt and reinvent to deliver the very best continuous improvement through outcomes for our students and our community. While the plan sets out important to 2025 with its key pillars of goals, remaining nimble and responsive is Faith & Culture, People & Practice, critical in this ever-changing educational environment. We must pivot and adjust when Learning, Teaching & Caring, and necessary and the 2022-2025 Strategic Plan Product & Place, underpinned by provides us with a clear direction around which to do so. We know where we are our caring Christian community. headed, and we will keep moving forward. Supported by highly-qualified staff and a vibrant Christian community, I am confident a bright future is ahead of us. Tracey Hickey, Board Chair 04 Emmanuel College
Strategic Plan Overview A caring Christian community inspiring intelligent, VISION hopeful engagement with our world PURPOSE Because the world needs people of good character who pursue truth STRATEGIC PILLARS STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES Faith & Culture – Equip staff to deliver best practice Christian education – Embed the College Compass across both schools – Deepen, strengthen, and connect our community People & Practices – Refine human resources practices – Enhance staff wellbeing – Coach staff towards professional excellence and/or leadership – Develop a ‘whole school’ framework for learning, teaching and caring Learning, Teaching – Maximise student academic outcomes & Caring – Develop a Student Futures Framework – Develop a College Master Plan Product & Place – Build foundations for a sustainable future – Establish a quality assurance framework 2022-25 Strategic Plan 05
Our Vision: A caring Christian community inspiring intelligent, hopeful engagement with our world 06 Emmanuel College
A caring Christian community inspiring intelligent, hopeful engagement with our world 2022-25 Strategic Plan 07
Strategic Pillar: Faith & Culture 08 Emmanuel College
Strategic Imperative: Faith 01 Equip staff to deliver best practice Christian education Key Goals: & Culture Develop programs that grow professional capacity, enhance biblical wisdom, and promote a Christian world view. Grow leaders who will impact Christian education now and into the future. 02 Strategic Imperative: Embed the College Compass across both schools Key Goals: To produce young people of strong Christian character who will positively impact their world. To embed the Compass as a lived set of character traits that are visible and measurable. 2022-25 Strategic Plan 09
Strategic Pillar: People & Practices 03 04 Strategic Imperative: Strategic Imperative: Deepen, strengthen, and Refine human connect our community resources practices Key Goals: Key Goal: To provide authentic opportunities for To ensure there are contemporary all community stakeholders to contribute attraction, acquisition, and retainment an active voice and engage on a range strategies for all staffing needs of the of levels. colleges. To explore external partnerships that will bring value to the Emmanuel and Josiah communities. 10 Emmanuel College
05 06 Strategic Imperative: Strategic Imperative: Enhance staff wellbeing Coach staff towards Key Goal: professional excellence To develop a strategy around staff and/or leadership wellbeing that addresses the needs of all staff. Key Goal: To foster a culture of excellence that enhances the ‘whole school’ teaching, learning and caring framework. 2022-25 Strategic Plan 11
Strategic Pillar: Learning, Teaching & Caring 12 Emmanuel College
07 Strategic Imperative: Develop a ‘whole school’ learning, teaching and caring framework Key Goal: To provide a cohesive and seamless pedagogical framework across the whole school. 08 Strategic Imperative: To maximise student academic outcomes Key Goal: To ensure that the College recognises each student as having potential to academically succeed in a wide range of endeavours. 09 Strategic Imperative: Develop Student Learning, Futures Framework Key Goal: To collaborate with students in developing a range of pathways and career opportunities Teaching post secondary schooling. & Caring 2022-25 Strategic Plan 13
Strategic Pillar: Product & Place 10 Strategic Imperative: Develop a College Master Plan Key Goal: To ensure the resources, infrastructure and learning environments support the ‘whole school’ teaching, learning and caring framework. 14 Emmanuel College
11 12 Strategic Imperative: Strategic Imperative: Build foundations for Establish a quality a sustainable future assurance framework Key Goals: Key Goals: To optimise enrolments across both Ensure our policies, practices and service Emmanuel College and Josiah College. consistently set and achieve a high standard. Define what it means to be an economically, Develop an approach to monitoring and socially and environmentally sustainable measuring non-financial practices. school and develop a plan to achieve this. 2022-25 Strategic Plan 15
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