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            CONSULTATION AND DEVELOPMENT






            THE MARIST
            REGIONAL COLLEGE
            STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS
            FRAMEWORK SETS                         The 2017-2021 Strategic Directions
            OUT OUR 2017-2021
            STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS                   Framework has the following

            AND GOALS.                             overarching domains:


            The goals developed are both               •  Catholic Identity and Mission
            ambitious and grounded in a
            personal growth culture for all            •  Learning and Teaching
            as well as a pursuit of personal
            and community excellence.                  •  Pastoral Wellbeing                                                       The facilitation of the process was overseen by a Steering Team.  This   Three separate survey tools
            The development of the                                                                                                 Steering Team was active for a period of over eight months throughout   were developed and used for
            Strategic Directions Framework             •  Leadership                                                               2016 whilst the consultation and discernment occurred.  The Steering   staff, parents and students in
            has been a whole of community                                                                                          Team initially worked with an educational consultant, gathering feedback   addition a number of face to face
            process that has ensured the               •  Stewardship                                                              from all stakeholders and drafting a plan based on the data and    consultation groups were held with
            voice of all stakeholders has                                                                                          feedback received.  The plan then underwent numerous stages of further   students and staff.  The College
            been encouraged and heard                                                                                              consultation with the community, including staff, students, parent groups,   received a very high response rate
            throughout the process.                                                                                                College Board and the Governing Council.                           from all stakeholders and the data

            The College engaged the                                                                                                                                                                   proved to be extremely valid and
            services of an external                                                                                                                                                                   highly insightful.   There was much
            educational consultant,                                                                                                                                                                   to celebrate in the data received
            to oversee the process to                                                                                              The steering committee consisted of:                               and this enabled the College to set
            ensure that there was a range                                                                                                                                                             a very high benchmark for areas of
            of voices in the resulting                                                                                                                                                                further growth.  For the purpose of
            framework.                                                                                                                 •  Principal                                                   a Strategic Directions Framework,
                                                                                                                                                                                                      the strengths are not recorded in
                                                                                                                                       •  Educational Consultant                                      this document. As the aim is for a
                                                                                                                                                                                                      culture of continual improvement,
                                                                                                                                       •  Board Representatives                                       regardless of the obvious strengths
                                                                                                                                                                                                      that exist, we have recorded only
                                                                                                                                       •  Parents and Friends Representative                          our ambitious goals.
                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Strategic Directions
                                                                                                                                       •  Student Representatives                                     Framework has been endorsed
                                                                                                                                                                                                      by both the College Board and
                                                                                                                                       •  Staff Representatives                                       the Marist Regional College
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Governing Council, headed by
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Archbishop Julian Porteous.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Adrian Drane
                                                                                                                                   The College Leadership Team has direct responsibility for particular   Principal
                                                                                                                                   domains of the strategic directions framework and as such it was an
                                                                                                                                   imperative that the key leaders were fully involved in the initial tool   Anne Wood
                                                                                                                                   development and discernment of data received.                      Chairperson of the Board – 2016
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