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• Recognizing the importance of innovation
• Embracing change while honoring tradition
• Continually deepening our ethical understanding of the world
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The 2014 NJAIS/MSA Visiting Accreditation Team's commendations and recommendations, which span for a ten year period, provided a valuable, external assessment of 线上买球app下载（中国）有限公司's strengths and opportunities that led to a revision/refinement and clarification of the school's mission statement and informed strategic planning conversations.

We began in September 2015 with a community-based Strategic Planning Retreat under the direction of an experienced and respected consultant, Diane Hulse of Hulse Consulting, who had come to know 线上买球app下载（中国）有限公司 in 2013-14 through co-chairing the NJAIS/MSA Visiting Accreditation Team. The Values and Vision Statements included here emerged when over 90 alumni, student, parent, Trustee, and faculty retreat participants collaborated to identify 线上买球app下载（中国）有限公司's core strengths in terms of its values and vision and areas for strategic improvement.

In the spirit of innovation and inclusiveness, 线上买球app下载（中国）有限公司 held an extended online forum – the JAM, hosted by Knowledge in the Public Interest – in November 2015 to engage other members of all of our constituencies in reflections and conversations facilitated by faculty, students, alumni, and trustees about specific topics generated by the retreat. Our constituents responded to the following JAM topics and questions derived from the September Strategic Planning Retreat:

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Led by a Strategic Planning Committee of Trustees and Administrators, collaboration between the Board of Trustees and Administration has characterized the work of the final part of the planning process in which there have been multiple opportunities to review, discuss, and organize our community’s contributions to 线上买球app下载（中国）有限公司’s next strategic plan.

In December 2015 and February 2016, 线上买球app下载（中国）有限公司’s Strategic Planning Committee reviewed and analyzed the community’s responses to the JAM topics and developed a set of draft goals for strategic planning.

In March of 2016, the Board of Trustees was led in a parallel exercise to review the Values and Vision Statements developed at the September Retreat and to draft 4-6 goals to guide 线上买球app下载（中国）有限公司’s strategic planning for the next 5 years.

In April 2016, 线上买球app下载（中国）有限公司’s strategic planning consultant provided the Chair of Strategic Planning and the Head of School with a consolidated document of strategic goals and associated action steps that had been recommended by the Strategic Planning Committee and the Board of Trustees. In five working meetings from July 2016 through February 2017, a task force of administrative and trustee members of the Strategic Planning Committee continued a process of refining and balancing the draft Strategic Plan which was then presented to the Board of Trustees in March 2017 and approved at the April 2017 Board of Trustees Meeting.