HARDING ACADEMY
A PreK through 8 School in Nashville, Tennessee
Inspiring the Mind
Nurturing the Spirit
Embracing the Future
Strategic Plan
At Harding Academy
At Harding Academy, we prepare young people for everything the future might hold for them as learners and thinkers—but also as wonderers and seekers, citizens and contributors, friends and leaders. We celebrate the complexity and depth of each student’s potential, taking a whole-child approach to nurturing each growing individual and inspiring every developing mind.
2020 Strategic Plan
Embracing the Future
We’ve brought the same holistic perspective to stewarding Harding Academy’s future. Our new strategic plan—Embracing the future at Harding Academy—is designed to further invigorate our strong curriculum and engage our close-knit community, in ways that will keep our school relevant in and responsive to our rapidly changing world for years to come. Most importantly, the strategic plan supports current and future generations of Harding students, ensuring that each Harding graduate is fully prepared to bravely and boldly embrace the future for themselves.
Our plan consists of four key areas of focus:
teaching and learning
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DYNAMIC
diversity, equity and
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INCLUSIVITY
community
partnerships
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INTENTIONAL
Evolving Aspirations
Unchanging
Values
These four key areas point the way toward evolving aspirations and fresh accomplishments, but they are also guided by the unchanging values that have always—and will always—shape a Harding Academy education. Our longstanding commitments to inspiring the mind, nurturing the spirit, issuing challenge, and offering support remain at the heart of all we do. This plan sets bold, new benchmarks in service of timeless, treasured purposes.
