Striving for continual progress.

Our Strategic Plan provides guidance and a clear sense of purpose as we continue to fulfill the School’s Mission and build upon our high level of successes.

Priority 1: Provide Opportunity

• Objective 1.1: Increase awareness of and access to an MICDS education to attract, enroll, and retain promising students across demographic and socioeconomic strata
• Objective 1.2: Recruit, hire, invest in, and retain exceptional teachers and staff whose identities, life experiences, and passions reflect, dignify, and inspire those of MICDS students
• Objective 1.3: Optimize the breadth of offerings, depth of learning opportunities, and range of support services available to students throughout our curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular programs
• Objective 1.4: Strive to ensure the relevance and durability of all learning and growth experiences available to students in preparing them for their adult lives
• Objective 1.5: Maintain and enhance campus facilities and resources as necessary to realize the ambitions of current programs and to accommodate new programs

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Priority 2: Build Character

• Objective 2.1: Establish and sustain trusting, compassionate, and productive student relationships with faculty, staff, and peers to foster emotional, social, and moral growth 
• Objective 2.2: Instill and reinforce habits of preparation, organization, diligence, adaptability, honesty, and accountability in all students
• Objective 2.3: Model, cultivate, and celebrate initiative, originality, courage, and resilience in all student endeavors
• Objective 2.4: Empower students to discern and advance their values for the betterment of others through self-awareness, critical inquiry, constructive discourse, and effective leadership

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Priority 3: Inspire Lives of Purpose and Service

• Objective 3.1: Encourage wonder, curiosity, imagination, excitement, and passion in students across all program offerings
• Objective 3.2: Nurture the practice of kindness, humility, selflessness, collaboration, service, and gratitude in all settings
• Objective 3.3: Strengthen community connections, culture, traditions, and pride among and between MICDS constituencies and generations
• Objective 3.4: Challenge students to extend the horizons of their hopes, ambitions, and altruism as they seek meaning and fulfillment in their lives both at and beyond MICDS