Strategic Plan:

Pillar #4

Intentional community partnerships:

Creating learning and service opportunities far beyond campus

Bringing hands-on discovery and problem-solving to our classrooms

Harding Academy’s campus is warm and beautiful, enveloped in a safe, supportive neighborhood, which offers students a comfortable place to test new possibilities and ideas. It should also function as a stable launchpad for greater exploration of the world beyond Harding, a starting point for important relationships with our city and region, and a point of departure for evolving conversations about our location, our history, and the learning opportunities embedded in both.

Our strategic plan envisions fewer boundaries and stronger ties: It facilitates new hands-on, real-world learning on campus and dispatches our students well beyond to learn from, work with, and serve those who share our larger community. Ultimately, our graduates will emerge from Harding made braver by their own experiences and made wiser by engaging others’ perspectives, knowledge, and contributions.

Pool Safety Rules

A

Developing eclectic Nashville partnerships with currently underrepresented professional and family communities that could bring new voices and yet-unexplored ideas to our campus.

Expand enrollment pipeline to underrepresented communities.

Develop experiential learning and community engagement opportunities with peers across the city.

Identify and pursue partnerships in the broader Nashville community to help us achieve the goals of our strategic plan.

IN PROCESS

B

Launching innovative and immersive learning experiences that lead to sustainable community partnerships, in which our students demonstrate leadership, entrepreneurial skills, and cultural awareness.

Develop a summer theatre program with a goal of becoming a collaborative experience inclusive of a broader group of Nashville students.

Evaluate developing an Institute for Community Engagement, which scaffolds community service, service learning, our community engagement opportunities and understandings for all stakeholders in our learning community.

Develop a signature program which engages community partners through The Harding Immersive Series.

IN ACTION

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IN PROCESS

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Harding Academy is committed to fostering a diverse set of Community Partnerships to ensure our students are equipped with the skills and tools needed to thrive in an increasingly interconnected world, to provide our faculty and staff with opportunities to engage local resources as they develop innovative and transformative educational experiences, and to propel us in our pursuit of nurturing the spirit, inspiring the mind, and embracing the future.

HARDING ACADEMY

Strategic Plan:

Pillar #4

A

Developing eclectic Nashville partnerships with currently underrepresented professional and family communities that could bring new voices and yet-unexplored ideas to our campus.

B

Launching innovative and immersive learning experiences that lead to sustainable community partnerships, in which our students demonstrate leadership, entrepreneurial skills, and cultural awareness.

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- Patrick Schuermann, EdD, Strategic Planning Committee Chair

HARDING ACADEMY

Strategic Plan:

Pillar #4

A

Developing eclectic Nashville partnerships with currently underrepresented professional and family communities that could bring new voices and yet-unexplored ideas to our campus.

B

Launching innovative and immersive learning experiences that lead to sustainable community partnerships, in which our students demonstrate leadership, entrepreneurial skills, and cultural awareness.

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- Patrick Schuermann, EdD, Strategic Planning Committee Chair