ABOUT
Strategic Plan
Dr. Denis Kinlaw, This Day with the Master
“God’s plan for all of us is infinitely bigger than we have ever dreamed."
Casting a Vision
Neighborhoods to Nations is a comprehensive, multi-year plan that casts a vision for exemplary Christian education for Houston Christian High School. Neighborhoods to Nations provides the blueprint to prepare students with a foundation for leadership, challenge them to develop a life calling, and set them on a path to impact the world for Christ from their neighborhoods to all nations. The plan sets a course for Houston Christian through our 25th anniversary in 2023.
Global Opportunities
- Expanding our base of understanding and influence globally;
- Developing a life-calling curriculum for students;
- Creating and fostering multi-national relationships and opportunities for students and faculty, and
- Developing cross-cultural skills and a global understanding within our students, faculty and community.
Leadership Programs
- Enhance leadership training across all classes;
- Model leadership characteristics before the community; and
- Connect the life-calling value with our vision for training tomorrow’s leaders
- Enhancing the stature and influence of the Bush Center to add value to the HC experience
- Developing and expanding leadership programs and internships
Exemplary Faculty
- Modeling life-calling principles before students;
- Ensuring that the culture of the school promotes excellence; and
- Maintaining salaries at competitive levels.
- Enhancing faculty culture through broad based professional development
- Enhancing programs, curriculum and technology
Optimize Resources
- Optimizing faculty and staff levels appropriate to achieve the Neighborhood to Nations vision
- Maintaining, improving and expanding facilities to complement these initiatives and build a competitive advantage in the marketplace
- Elevating Houston Christian’s distinctive brand awareness
- Stabilizing enrollment at 525 students
- Achieving sustainable financial strength through endowment growth and debt reduction
Long-term Benefits
- Enhancing HC’s preeminent college preparatory school positioning
- Making Houston Christian the school of choice for students, faculty and staff
- Attracting and retaining a high quality and diverse student body
- Attracting and retaining exceptional faculty and staff
- Creating and enhancing exemplary academic curriculum and programs
- Enhancing comprehensive leadership development programs
- Strengthening the role and reach of The Bush Center
- Developing a deeper understanding and commitment to one’s life-calling
- Expanding and enhancing facilities to compliment and support curricular and co-curricular programs and permit the development of student talents in the arts and athletics
- Teaching through curriculum and programs, cross-cultural skills and the importance of a global perspective that broadens international influence
- Securing the school’s financial position by creating long lasting financial stability and sustainability
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