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Creating spaces that reflect our mission

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Creating spaces that reflect our mission

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Supporting and challenging students to be ready to engage with the world

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Supporting and challenging students to be ready to engage with the world

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Inspiring progressive faculty, experienced mentors, and contemporary scholars

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Inspiring progressive faculty, experienced mentors, and contemporary scholars

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Cultivating ethical, purposeful citizens of a diverse community

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Cultivating ethical, purposeful citizens of a diverse community

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Stewarding our resources in visionary, pragmatic ways

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Stewarding our resources in visionary, pragmatic ways

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1. develop a formal system to assess expanded offerings in the service of offerings available to students.
2. Assessing the relevance and strength of current offerings.
3. Collect student feedback on the quality of programs, beginning in 8th grade.
4. Evaluate the quality and quantity of homework and its impact on grades.
5. Consistent approach to the purpose/ meta-consideration of homework.
6.  Use 3 weeks in the summer to create concentrated programs that relieve pressure on the academic calendar.
7. Balance between physical and emotional wellbeing with academics.
8. Time for meaningful community service and extra curricular activity. 9. Concept of a student cafe/ gathering place.
10. Community service: a much bigger component in the school, integrated into the curriculum, a more defined goal for each grade. 11. Accept different points of view, encourage engaging with difference to enable success in the world.
12. Teaching critical thinking, argumentative analysis, critical listening,
13. How do we give great examples of failure and how failure can be a key to success.
14. Protect students from internalizing failure and transform it into a tool for learning. More teaching of entrepreneurship, risk taking, recognizing failure as a part life.
15. Teaching collaborative work. 16. Develop work with externships, career days, hear about many pathways available, many different types of professions.
17. Emotional intelligence also matters, interpersonal skills, soft skills, reading others, active listening, empathy is very important.
18. Rejecting the trend of isolation via consistent messaging re: social media.
19. Teaching a defense against the onslaught of complex messages, poor impulse control.
20. Space for students to be creative, dream big, reinvent the world around them. rejecting the temptation to feed knowledge and expect a certain result.
21. Build in time for reflection and "nothingness."
22. Develop a personalized Dalton plan for each student that may adapt over time. Equipping students to understand and engage people of opposing views in a constructive fashion.
23. Forcing people to play devil's advocate, strengthening the perspective of one's own view as a result.
24. Focusing on the value of debate and explicitly teaching the skills of debating diverse perspectives.
25. Acknowledging that many of our students live in a bubble, and creating opportunities for them to engage with the world.
26. Remove the contentious nature of disagreement, and normalize these conversations.
27. Consider service opportunities within the less resourced neighborhoods of new york with peer aged students, considering a student exchange program.
28. A detailed consideration at the needs of our most geographically diverse families.
29.  Understanding risk and failure and help students experience the benefit of such experiences.
30. No grades? Audits? P/F?
31. Global learning, making sure there is an international focus on different cultures and educational philosophies.
32. Ensuring students have meaningful contact with peers from different parts of the world.
33. A more finely articulated curriculum around equity and inclusive practice, both within the existing academic curriculum and as a separate, focused component. And at the K-12 level.
34. Supporting and engaging student experience in the "fly over states" --- acknowledging a Dalton bubble, and challenging students to engage with people who hold different views and experiences. 35. Political inclusion and exposure, important to consider. 36. Explicit discourse around socioeconomics both at Dalton and more broadly.
37. Finding forums other than assembly to bring in people to incorporate these ideas.
38. Emphasize failure a little more, encourage students to take risks. 39. Venture into areas unknown. 40. Teaching students to prioritize, incorporate explicit opportunities learn this valuable skill.
41. Engaging with the broader world, teaching about the diverse ways of thinking within our country and the world.
42. Creating an innovation lab, with a focus on all kinds of ideas, encouraging acceptance that some ideas will fail.
43. Does Dalton teach manners? could we partner more explicitly with students in this way?
44. Consider homework, the facts around it, is it helpful, how much is controllable within the confines of curriculum, how much can we reduce and keep results the same. 45. What are we doing to students if we cut it down, and would that enhance or damage learning? Interrogate homework, generally.

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1. Teacher retention -- Retaining faculty that we want -- those who map to strategic plan now, not just ones who were once successful
2. Understanding why we have lost faculty over time (understanding faculty data)
3. Finding funds and appropriate financial incentives and what are the issues for faculty in order to retain faculty
4. Develop metrics for keeping the teachers we want and those that we don't want over a long period of time.
5. Provide teachers with support that they specifically want in order to forward mission-aligned work
6. How do you reward excellence and not seniority
7. Provide teachers with opportunity to create consistent curriculum.
8. Provide training in how to identify signs of extreme stress in students
9. Assess ways to understand ways to fund teachers in their efforts to maintain consistency of the curriculum while allowing them to pursue passions via on the spot funding.
10. Free up the time and find the funding for training our teachers to create multi- and trans-disciplinary development.
11. Assess what the possible hooks to retain teachers; ad-hoc meeting to make career paths transparent for teachers; what are the specific data points that will help us better understand
12.  Provide teacher leadership training in management especially for those who wish to progress within the school.
13. Identify what one thing teachers should stop doing
14. Reward teachers with collaborative curriculum development.
15. Identify one or two schools that are innovative and send teachers there -- parents as teachers for a day or exchange teachers with other schools.
16. Explore opportunities for faculty to have self reflection and goal setting at beginning and ending of year
17. Identify areas where the teaching and learning is going -- what are the elements of what is working and how can we develop it more systematically?
18. Assess teacher happiness -- self-care, no one is burning out, challenging situations but are supported, feedback system.
19. Invite teachers into alternative revenue generation opportunities and the process of identifying them.
20. Provide teachers with avenues for experimenting with new technologies and curriculum development -- time, sandboxing, funding/compensation.
21. Expand sabbatical program
22. Provide more time for the creation of new course work.
23. Assess feedback collection opportunities for Dalton teachers; is it safe; how is it assessed.

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1. Parent Orientation program for parents in K, 4, 9 before they enter Dalton. This should be mandatory.
2. A possible contract of conduct for parents
3. We could be more deliberate about Billy Farrell Award and areas where we celebrate character.
GROUP 2
1. Do students understand what is behavior that we will not tolerate? We should address the gaps.
2. Initiate a First Program Family Community Service Requirement
3. Students should be engaged in community service every week after school by the time they are in middle school and high school.
4.  Stop outsourcing community service. What can we do inside Dalton?
GROUP 3
1.  What are expectations of parents during application time in Kindergarten. Training should be mandatory.  Up until high school we need to set the norms with parents.If they don't sign up they are out.
2. Health and Wellness Training for parents.
3. What do we do to address behavioral issues with students? There needs to implementation and communication mechanism. We need to have standard processes for communication.
4. Censor behavior on school bus and online.
5. Real community service
Group 4
1. Bring back the Dalton Explo
2.  We talk about empathy work, but we need to go deeper with the students.
3. Commitment to an Ethics Class or something like it. Could happen in House.
4. Reinforce culture and develop new traditions that reflect and embrace cultural touchstones.
5.  School service that is similar to chores
6. Acknowledge staff and people who help the whole community
7. Learn every name of staff members
8. Make time for reflection for Community Service. Make a tradition of Community Service Day or Dalton Day.
9. Students can design and develop their own projects.
Group 5
1. We need to be more inclusive of different political perspectives.
2. Require kids to learn how to argue a position they disagree with.  Learn how to debate the other side. Look at whether you have changed your opinion over the last year. Have data inform your decision.  Critical thinking helps you to become a better citizen.
3. Encourage Dalton kids to have conversations with children in other countries.
4. Get out in the actual world and meet people in our city. This could (or could not) be part of community service.  The kids do not get out in the City enough.
5. Partner with other schools and other organizations to provide more experiences.
6. Send Dalton students for one week to another City, school, etc. We can also receive kids from other schools.  We can have a rolling program.
7. Social excursions using the City as a resource.

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1. Move our ad hoc committee on security on the board to a standing committee.
2. Consider partnering with other institutions prior to building our own environment.
3. Provide (look for) a forum or space for student interaction (assembly is too infrequent).
4. Measure and display environmental impact.
5. Restack the classrooms to provide proper flow and flexibility.
6. Continue to explore ways to leverage technology to expand time and space.
7. Consider best ways to offer our space to the community.
8. Creation of a High School bistro/lounge.
9. Standardize ways to make labs and maximize teacher availability
10. Analyze our movement throughout the space using data mapping.
11. Provide better activity than sports/recess in the street.
12. Study and revamp elevator traffic.
13. Can first program eat as a class or school to build community?
14. Create more time for lunch or leisure. (down time).
15. Measuring learning efficiency and assessment of homework (time related)

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1. Review peer school's best in class programs. Learn from other institutions.
2. Concept of "Dalton dollars" for each student.
3. Non-tuition related expenses - e.g. meals on field trips and events.
Develop a prioritization process - e.g. weighted voting / deliberative voting.
4. Careful consideration for long-term initiatives.
5. Articulate the use of space and programs - define clear intent.
6. Endowing programs and positions - particularly that are non-core programs.
7. Utilize the City as resource for program and curricula - maximize and expand non-Dalton resources.
8. Create an "innovation lab" which include various constituents to develop and amend programs or initiatives.
9. Long-term outlook -- how can we prepare our students for 5, 10, 15, 20 years.
10. Evaluate what % of curriculum do we reallocate each year.
11. Develop financial roadmap for need-blind admissions.
12. Create alternative revenue sources to bridge the gap in socioeconomic diversity.
12a. Expand online programs.
13. Determine what Dalton has "best-in-class" and develop budget around the programs.
14. Audit of co-curricular activities. i.e. why do some programs have cost and others do? e.g. Theater (no cost), debate (cost).
14a. Review participation and enrollment. How do we sunset programs?