the ASPect - American School of Paris

Our Strategic Planning Design Team
Students: Eli Rivkin, Anna Bradley Webb, Guillaume Julian, Anthony Ghosn, Zaahir Badruddin, Michael Carden,
Stefanos Bennink, Berangere Judis
Parents and Alumni: Terry Bachmann, Nasreen Badruddin, Jordan Lewis, Omnia Nour, Anne Schwartz, David Zeiler
Board of Trustees: Lis Seeley, Claire Staniforth, Giovanna Monnas, Betsy Blackwell
Faculty and Staff: Elvi Keulen, Emma Silva, Greg Jacks, Janet Stettner, Agnes Poudou, Gillian Lynch, Joseph Scanlon,
Andrea Neubauer, Tim Trainor, Craig Vezina, Hal Judis, Mario Chioini
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Thus far, nearly
250 people have been
involved in the future search
seminars, creating a rich body
of information and common
themes for continually
improving our school."
Administration: Margaret Coleman, Kathy Miner, Aaron Hubbard, Larry Love, Laurence Feniou, Michele Calon, Mark Ulfers
school’s commitment to achieve
specific and measurable results toward
improving student learning. We tied these
objectives very closely to our target, the
DRAFT mission statement.
These objectives define what we must
achieve to truly live out our mission and be
true to our school’s beliefs. Another way
to say this is that these student-learning
improvement objectives take the lofty
language of our mission and define action
while seeking specific results. Our objectives
are student centered. After arriving at a
set of student learning objectives we set
strategy and defined a road map for meeting
our objectives. Our strategies define how
we marshal people, facilities, equipment,
and any number of other resources toward
achieving our desired future results.
Three Intense Days
To accomplish the above tasks our strategic
planning group needed three intense days
of debate, discussion and decision-making.
To be clear, our strategic planning group is
advisory in nature. This group completed
(for access to the draft plan, see link
below) a draft of the strategic plan for our
school and has sent this to our board of
trustees. We must also share this draft
with you. Obviously we will be looking for
your feedback, ideas and constructive
comments.
From Words to Action
One final and most important step is that
each of the strategies will be backed up
with very specific action steps to ensure
accountability for implementation of
strategic intent. The action steps are
important because it’s so easy for any
organization to talk and talk and talk or
continually plan when what is needed most
is action. We need to ensure that what we
plan results in very specific and achievable
steps to ensure that aspirations for our
school as discussed and debated by so
many of you and the strategic planning
design team truly come to pass for the
young people of ASP.
If you should have any questions about
where your school is heading, we trust
that you will drop an email, pick up the
phone and call, or schedule a meeting.
Talk to members of our design team too.
We can think of nothing more important at
this stage in the process than for us to be
communicating clearly, for you to feel as
involved as is possible, and for you to have
the confidence that your ideas and thoughts
are welcome.
To view the future search seminar data:
www.asparis.org/futuresearch
To view the DRAFT of the ASP Strategic
Plan Framework: www.asparis.org/draft
All along, our intention has been to swing
the doors wide for you to offer your opinion
on the future direction of our school. We
want this approach to continue. We know
the best schools encourage the debate on
what is best for our young people and ask
all to strive for excellence. Let us know
what your think– after all, keeping promises
and being honest is central to all we do.
We’re a school on the move.
Lis Seeley
President of the Board of Trustees
Mark E. Ulfers
Head of School
The Aspect - November 2010