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Strategic Plan

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Our Mission

A CCES education prepares students to think deeply, act responsibly, live vigorously, believe faithfully, lead resolutely, and create imaginatively.

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Core Values

Character.
Community.
Excellence.
Service.

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Baptismal Covenant

As an Episcopal School we are upheld by the Baptismal Covenant which calls us “to strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being.”

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Executive Summary

In the fall of 2023, the Board of Trustees approved a plan designed to help every segment of school align their efforts to make this vision a reality for each and every student we serve.

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CCES Students Will Be:


Prepared to Thrive in a Global Context

CCES will build habits, skills, and competencies to prepare students to thrive in a global society.

  • Implement innovative approaches to teaching and learning to navigate school and beyond.
  • Equip and inspire lifelong learning in an ever changing world.
  • Apply learning through authentic experiences.
  • Develop clear, common language around instructional practices as an institution.
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Balanced and Well Rounded

CCES will provide students opportunities to define their individual paths through exploration, reflection, and experiences and to examine the impact of their decisions on themselves and the world around them.

  • Build and support student decision-making that promotes balance and wellness.
  • Explore and identify individual student interests, needs, and capacity.
  • Design programming and resources for families to support student balance and wellness.
  • Develop institutional parameters and safeguards to support healthy student development and growth.
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Seen, Heard, and Valued

CCES will cultivate a culture of inclusion and belonging where every individual feels seen, heard, and valued as an integral part of the CCES community.

  • Foster an instructional environment that supports inclusion and belonging.
  • Discuss and address complex situations through the lens of inclusion and belonging.
  • Engage in mutually respectful dialogue and perspective taking.
  • Communicate institutional philosophy, polices, and practices that support belonging.
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Spiritually Rooted

CCES will nurture an abiding sense that a loving god is present in our lives and calls us to live in community with one another through faithfulness, generosity, service, and kindness.

  • Support and cultivate the spiritual lives of all school community members.
  • Develop student character through grounding in spirituality and development of a moral compass.
  • Engage in opportunities to explore and discover meaning beyond oneself.
  • Align institutional philosophy, policies, and practices with principal qualities of an Episcopal school.
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A very special thanks to our Board of Trustees, our Task Force Members, and our Ad Hoc Committee Members

 

Board of Trustees 2022-2024

Vidya Ravishankar Agarwal
Dena S. Benedict ’78
Tondre Buck
Grant R. “Rey” Essex III
H. Ellis Fisher
Jeannette T. Goldsmith
Christina T. Harrell
L.James “Jim” Hendrix III

Clifford K. “Cliff” Holekamp
Katie S. Howell ’92
Michael “Mike” H. McBride
Harrison M. McLeod
John M. Jennings ’84
Jordan Lea
Raymond S. Levy
Martha Louise R. Lewis ’81

William “Bill” H. Pelham
John L. Sanders
Jason Sippey
Elizabeth C. Swent
Melissa T. Thomason
Christine Von Wyl
Cary H. Weekes ’98

 

Task Force Members

Vidya Ravishankar Agarwal, Trustee, Current Parent
Wallace Adams-Riley, Senior Chaplain, Current Parent
Angela Allen, Associate Head Of School, Current Parent
Amanda Beckrich, Faculty, Alumna Parent
Tondre Buck, Trustee, Current Parent
Steve Collins, Current Parent
Rey Essex, Trustee, Alumni Parent
Claudia Fischer-Aust, Current Parent
Ellis Fisher, Trustee, Current Parent
Marjon Ford, Current Parent
Jeannette Goldsmith, Strategic Planning Chair, Trustee, Alumni Parent
Jim Hendrix, Trustee, Current Parent
Katie Howell, Trustee, Alumna, Current/Alumna Parent
Melissa Hughes, Faculty, Current Parent
Jamie Inman, Assistant Head for Advancement
John Jennings, Trustee, Alumnus, Alumni Parent
Alex Kameen, Faculty
Zay Kittredge, Faculty, Alumnus
Jordan Lea, BOT Chair, Alumnus Parent

Raymond Levy, Trustee, Current Parent
Martha Louise Lewis, Trustee, Alumna, Alumni Parent
Robyn Surrett Liao, Current Parent
Mike McBride, Trustee, Current/Alumni Parent, Grandparent
Harrison McLeod, Trustee, Alumni Parent
David Padilla, Head of School
Bill Pelham, Trustee, Alumni Parent
Laney Picklesimer ’24, Student
Doug Qualls, Assistant Head for Finance and Operations, Alumni Parent
Ana Roye, Director of Enrollment Management, Current Parent
Jason Sippey, Trustee, Current Parent
Jason Smith, Faculty
Elizabeth Swent, Trustee, Current/Alumni Parent
David Tah ’24, Student
Melissa Thomason, Trustee, Current/Alumna Parent
Christine Von Wyl, Trustee, Current Parent
Lincoln Weldie ’24, Student
Emilie Whitaker, Faculty

 

Ad Hoc Committee

Vidya Ravishankar Agarwal
Jeannette T. Goldsmith
Jordan Lea
Jason Sippey
Elizabeth C. Swent
David Padilla
Angela Allen