Gulliver Schools

STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES
In order for Gulliver Schools to succeed, it must achieve three strategic
imperatives:
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Optimize a learning environment where each student can achieve success
commensurate with his or her potential;
• Curriculum
• Faculty and Staff
• Students and Parents
• Facilities
• Communications and Public Relations
Further develop a governance structure that effectively facilitates the
schools’ goals and objectives while ensuring compliance with all appropriate
laws and regulations;
And, maintain and enhance a fiscally sound economic base that minimizes
debt and tuition growth while maximizing advancement efforts.
• Business Operations
• Advancement
KEY PRIORITIES - LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Curriculum
Excel in and investigate strong, competitive, academic, college-preparatory programs
and courses.
Integrate appropriate technological advances into the curriculum.
Provide regular opportunities for instructional staff to collectively and individually
research, contemplate, and improve the instructional program.
Annually seek accreditation from regional public and independent accrediting
agencies.
Maintain and develop programs that enhance the physical, social, ethical, and moral
breadth and depth of Gulliver students.
Faculty and Staff
Recruit and maintain a quality, motivated, and dedicated faculty, administration,
and support staff.
Provide professional growth opportunities for faculty, administrators, and support
staff.
Regularly research and make subsequent recommendations regarding compensation
and other economic issues.
Refine the performance evaluation instruments for administration and teaching
faculty.
Ensure efficient, thorough communication with entire staff regarding policies and
procedures.
Students and Parents
Recruit, enroll, and maintain a diverse student body of college-preparatory ability.
Ensure that each student receives an education commensurate with his or her
unique potential.
Maintain an informed, active, supportive parent group that operates within a set of
approved procedures.
Facilities
Increase the number of state-of-the-art classrooms and educational support facilities
to accommodate current and future students’ needs and best support the changing
curriculum.
Increase and improve the facilities presently provided for athletics and arts.
Maintain Gulliver’s focus on maximizing safety and minimizing hazards.
Communications and Public Relations
Regularly articulate Gulliver Schools’ non-profit status, mission, and philosophy.
Communicate to Gulliver’s constituency the need for financial support.
Maintain a public relations campaign to publicize Gulliver accomplishments and
memorialize Gulliver’s history.
Strengthen and improve the timeliness and quality of all communication within
Gulliver Schools.
Build general awareness of Gulliver’s diverse academic programs and specialty
courses (i.e. engineering, pre-law, architectural drawing).
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Implement an ongoing constituency satisfaction survey to students, employees,
parents, and other key stakeholders to determine satisfaction levels with the
“Gulliver Experience.” Create action in response to data received.
KEY PRIORITIES - GOVERNANCE
The Board of Trustees will support policies designed to achieve the school’s mission,
philosophy, and goals.
The Board of Trustees will further develop a governance structure that effectively
facilitates the school’s goals and objectives while ensuring compliance with all
appropriate laws and regulations.
The Board of Trustees will hire and maintain a management team that has the clearly
defined responsibility and authority to issue all operational policies, procedures,
verbal or written, formal or informal, and to ascertain compliance with its mission
and philosophy.
The Board of Trustees will work with the operator of the school to develop a
Management Succession Plan to ensure the ongoing success of school operations.
This plan includes creating a new position, Provost, to focus on continued academic
excellence at Gulliver Schools.