Mission
Rock Point School provides a close-knit, supportive educational community, where high school and postgraduate students who have experienced challenges can become successful academically, build selfconfidence, and develop skills for their future. Rock Point School offers academic, cultural, recreational, and spiritual opportunities that support intellectual growth and help students become their best selves.
Vision
Rock Point School graduates will move into their lives in thoughtful and deliberate ways, continue to explore who they are, have confident voices to express themselves, build on foundational academic skills, face challenges with ever-greater resilience, recognize life’s struggles and love themselves, and respect themselves and others.
Philosophy
At Rock Point School we believe that…
All young people yearn to become their best selves. Strong relationships build strong character. An inclusive community benefits all its members. Students thrive with the appropriate level of challenge. Each student succeeds in distinct ways.
Rock Point School guided my daughter in her personal, emotional, and academic growth by supporting her as she discovered resiliency and the tools within herself to make lasting change. All the teachers and staff honored her uniqueness, and how she learns, with the utmost respect while holding her accountable in ways that she felt safe moving forward. My daughter went from being afraid to put in effort and not being on a path to college to working harder than I’d ever seen her on her college applications….and getting into her top 3 choices. Rock Point School changed her life. And mine.
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Strategic Goal 2
We will slowly grow the enrollment to enrich the student experience and to contribute to the school’s financial stability.
Action Steps
Assess our marketing strategies and make improvements
Ensure that admissions is an all-staff effort
Increase efforts to retain students
Maintain and build referral relationships
Rebuild and market a robust summer session
Study and reflect on unintended bias and kinds of exclusion in the school
We will foster a staff culture of shared learning and steady improvement to provide cohesive, progressive support for staff development and growth in their jobs, to enhance programs, and to support student learning.
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We will care for and update our infrastructure–making our historic building more energy efficient, sustainable, and beautiful–and upgrade the equipment and materials that support our programs.
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Expand performance reviews to include all staff and administrators
Encourage and support individual professional development
Review and revise staff on-boarding and mentoring
Create annual shared professional development programs for all staff
Build foundation for diversity and equity through ongoing professional development
Refine the Exit Interview process to align with best practices
Survey parents and students about school experience
Survey alums and their families about school experience and life after Rock Point
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Craft short- to long-term plans for improvements to the building and for wider campus needs
Identify major needs and naming opportunities for donors
Complete capital projects in stages over time
