Advancing with Purpose
A Strategic Plan for Maret 2025
Advancing with Purpose
SIX STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
1. Empower Every Learner
2. Redefine Educational Excellence
3. Center Belonging
4. Inspire Exceptional Teaching
5. Invest in a Future-Ready Campus
6. Grow Our Fiscal Capacity
OUR VISION
We provide a transformative education to build a better world, one student at a time.
At Maret, each student is encouraged to develop their interests, passions, and strengths in order to meet their own purpose in the world. Through this transformative process, they learn essential skills and gain an understanding of who they are and who they can become. In this way, the school pursues a better world—one in which students are engaged with courage, purpose, and joy.
OUR PLAN
This strategic plan prioritizes the delivery of leading-edge programs and exceptional instruction in ways that honor our students’ individual journeys.
Each learner is unique, but all students need a relevant and robust educational foundation that will empower them to thrive in a global landscape of increasing complexity and rapid technological change.
We believe that students’ well-being and sense of belonging are vital to their learning, growth, and success.
We will sustain the equitable, inclusive, and joyful learning environment that is a hallmark of a Maret education and that stirs our students to lead connected and consequential lives.
Leading Maret into the future includes nurturing our outstanding faculty.
They are the dedicated experts who spark our students’ curiosity, challenge them to grow, teach them essential skills, celebrate their successes, and support them every day. We will focus on their well-being and provide them with new opportunities to collaborate, innovate, and grow throughout their careers.
Investing in our campus and continuing to strengthen the school’s financial base are important goals of the plan.
We have a beautiful and historic campus in Woodley Park and a new athletic facility just up the road. We will use our space and place in the city to inspire learning and accommodate our evolving programs now and for the next generation. As responsible stewards of the school, we will align our financial planning with our educational goals and champion the mission and vision of the school.
PRIORITY 1
Empower Every Learner
OBJECTIVE
Equip students for success in our increasingly complex world and nurture each individual’s sense of purpose and agency.
INITIATIVES
● Develop Maret’s portrait of a graduate—a collective vision for student success that articulates the knowledge, skills, experiences, and attributes that our graduates will need for the future.
● Redesign graduation requirements to align with the portrait of a graduate and to reflect our commitment to academics, arts, athletics, and wellness.
● Enhance our advising, mentoring, and wellness programs to ensure all students are known and celebrated and have the strongest possible foundation for learning and personal growth.
● Build on opportunities for reflection and self-discovery throughout the student journey to promote learning, well-being, effective decision-making, and leadership.
● Open new avenues for student agency and voice to shape learning experiences and school culture.
PRIORITY 2
Redefine Educational Excellence
OBJECTIVE
Ensure a challenging and dynamic curriculum that reflects current research and best educational practices.
INITIATIVES
● Invest in science, computer science, and mathematics programming to prepare students for new frontiers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math (STEAM) fields.
● Advance curricular innovation with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and hands-on learning.
● Expand curriculum and programming that addresses civics and global issues.
● Approach technological advancement, including artificial intelligence (AI), with a balanced consideration of ethics, digital citizenship, wellness, creativity, and innovation.
● Leverage Maret’s institutional research data to inform decision-making for stronger educational outcomes.
PRIORITY 3
Center Belonging
OBJECTIVE
Model inclusivity by cultivating connectedness and ensuring respect for all individuals across our diverse community.
INITIATIVES
● Expand programming to build an inclusive and equitable school culture rooted in open dialogue, mutual respect, and cross-cultural understanding.
● Foster strong partnerships with families that center students’ experiences.
● Strengthen the community engagement program through a shared vision and guiding principles that create a coordinated K–12 approach.
● Continue to prioritize social-emotional skills as central to joyful learning.
PRIORITY 4
Inspire Exceptional Teaching
OBJECTIVE
Advance Maret’s culture of professional excellence through new opportunities and additional resources.
INITIATIVES
● Establish an Office for Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development to drive excellence and innovation in pedagogy.
● Expand efforts to recruit and retain mission-aligned faculty who reflect the diverse identities of the student body.
● Build new pathways for faculty leadership, mentorship, and career advancement.
● Create new collaborative learning opportunities for faculty across departments and divisions.
● Increase focus on faculty well-being as essential to a thriving school culture.
Invest in a Future-Ready Campus
OBJECTIVE
Design campus improvements that reflect our educational values and vision for the school’s future.
INITIATIVES
● Launch a 15-year phased master plan to optimize Maret’s Woodley campus.
● Create adaptable, integrated learning environments that reflect the school’s programmatic aspirations.
● Explore the feasibility of purchasing the ECC buildings to support Maret’s mission and supplement the Woodley campus.
● Integrate accessibility and environmentally sustainable practices into infrastructure planning.
PRIORITY 6
Grow Our Fiscal Capacity
OBJECTIVE
Position Maret for continued fiscal strength by broadening the school’s financial structure and aligning financial decision-making with educational goals.
INITIATIVES
● Integrate program-driven financial planning and clear communication into the school’s financial sustainability principles.
● Amplify Maret’s value proposition by highlighting the school’s distinctive strengths—academics, outcomes, culture, and community.
● Increase summer camp, after school, facility rental, and other income opportunities from 2% of total revenue to 5% of total revenue by FY2030.
● Expand philanthropic strategies for annual, capital, planned, and endowment giving to reduce tuition dependency.
● Ground financial planning in equity, access, and institutional values.
OUR MISSION
Maret is a vibrant, K-12 independent school in Washington, DC. We ignite our students’ potential; foster their academic, artistic, and athletic talents; and promote their well-being. We develop the mind, nurture curiosity, welcome challenge, embrace joy, and build community that is equitable and inclusive.
OUR
ESSENTIAL
SKILLS
Collaboration
Communication
Creativity & Innovation
Cultural & Global Competence
Leadership
Problem Solving
Technology, Information & Media Literacy
Wellness
CORE VALUES
Respect and Integrity
Excellence and Creativity
The Individual and Connectedness
Joy OUR MOTTO
Noscere Vivere Est • To Learn is to Live
