Strategic Plan

Our strategic plan is comprised of three broad goal areas:
1. Prioritize our core value of diversity and equity to support an optimal learning environment and strongest community.
2. Support Burgundy’s research-based educational model with the best possible faculty, program, and facilities.
3. Safeguard our ability to serve families by strengthening the school’s long-term financial sustainability.

Our Diverse Community

Burgundy’s dynamic approach to learning is predicated upon a welcoming and diverse community where each child and their families feel connected and respected. Our community creates the foundation for learning and every wonderful thing that transpires at Burgundy.

We embrace Burgundy’s history and deep commitment to the core value of diversity and equity, with an equal welcome and fairness in all that Burgundy offers. Students learn that communities are strengthened by diversity, and appreciating differences is vital to creating a just, peaceful world.

By recruiting and sustaining a diverse student body, faculty-staff, and community, we strive to create the best environment to prepare all of our students for success in an increasingly dynamic and interconnected world. View our current progress here.

Strategies:
– Maintain meaningful cross-cultural competencies and provide training for faculty, staff, trustees, and students. ◕
– Monitor and assess in a regular way ongoing diversity and equity efforts in admission, hiring, retention, financial aid, and curriculum development. ◕
– Ensure that recruitment and retention reflect our desire for our trustees, administration, faculty, staff, and student body to reflect the diverse populations of our region and country. ◕
– Provide the leadership team with training, authority, and support needed to influence relevant policy development, decision-making, budgeting, and management. ◕
– Increase the school’s commitment to collaboration with parents that supports the healthy development of children. ◕

Our Dynamic Program

At Burgundy, learning is joyful, nurturing each child’s innate curiosity. Our campuses provide access to nature and unique spaces to explore, learn, and play.

In Burgundy’s progressive education model, teachers encourage intellectual autonomy, personal responsibility, and artistic creativity to help students develop critical thinking skills and find their own paths to understanding.

We honor the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of children, allowing growth to unfold at each child’s own pace. View our current progress here.

Strategies:
– Excel in progressive education by attracting, developing, and retaining teachers and staff who embody Burgundy’s mission, progressive philosophy, and core values. ◕
– Enhance place-based education, outdoor education, and learning in nature to fully utilize our combined campuses. ◔
– Foster environmental sustainability/stewardship, beginning with adopting a new ‘sustainability mission’ statement. ◕
– Implement a cohesive health and wellness program in support of each student’s successful academic and personal JK-8 school journey. ✔
– Prepare for the sustainability and invigoration of the Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies campus with the development and implementation of a BCWS Master Plan. ✔
– Implement BCWS Master Plan through an RFP for construction and other services. ◕
– Begin groundwork for a new Alexandria Campus Master Plan. ◔

Our Bright Future

Burgundy is—and has been for 75 years—a leader in student-centered, innovative progressive education. And we want to be educating children for at least another 75!

Burgundy graduates are self-aware and confident, motivated, curious, and creative. Our students and graduates are fully engaged in their learning, achieve academic success, and advocate for themselves and others to successfully navigate and influence their world.

Equipped with a strong academic foundation and a deep understanding of their responsibility to their local and global communities, alumni credit Burgundy as having the greatest impact on their educational and life successes, happiness, and personal identities. View our current progress here.

Strategies:
– Strongly articulate the value of the Burgundy experience to current families, prospective families, and supporters. ◕
– Tell our story boldly and confidently by investing in brand and marketing research, analysis, and consultation. ✔
– Establish a financial sustainability plan that balances optimal enrollment, tuition affordability, philanthropy, and financial aid models consistent with our core values. ◕
– Use our campuses and our creativity to enhance existing, and develop new, revenue sources. ◕
– Grow our Endowment to support Burgundy financial sustainability in the decades to come. ◔