Regionaliztion Fact Sheet - Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic Schools

Northwest Regional
Planning for Schools
Our Lady of Victory
Saint Cornelius
Saint Pascal
Saint Tarcissus
ENSURING OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE
SPRING 2015
The goal of the regional planning process is to collaborate and create sustainable,
excellent academic centers in a faith-filled environment, and provide this exceptional
opportunity to every family who desires a Catholic education for their child.
This is a collaborative effort among our four schools, designed to deliver a state-of-the-art educational
experience and grow the Catholic presence among our communities. The planning process consists of
these teams – local, regional and the Archdiocese, as well as a group of independent consultants on the
Regional Advisory Planning Group who are available to all teams for strategic guidance.
PLANNING TEAM
Local Planning Group
is made up of pastors,
principals, parishioners
and parents from each
parish/school.
Local
Planning
Group
Regional
Planning
Group
Archdiocese
Office of
Catholic
Schools
Regional Planning Group consists
of pastors, members from the
Regional Planning Advisory Group,
representatives from the Office of
Catholic Schools and two members
of each Local Planning Group.
The Office of Catholic Schools
will facilitate the planning
process, work with parish finance
teams and present historical
data/trends to teams.
Regional Planning Advisory Group includes pastors, educators and parishioners
from other communities in the Archdiocese experienced in strategic planning.
How will we create this new vision together?
As part of a Local Planning Group, parish representatives will collectively discuss:
• Spiritual life and community
• Curriculum emphasis and requirements
• Co-curricular programs
• Required program investments
Northwest Regional
Planning for Schools
• Principal role requirements
• Facility requirements
• Sustainable size and number of
classrooms per grade
Our Lady of Victory
Saint Cornelius
Saint Pascal
Saint Tarcissus
August 2016
NEW REGIONAL ACADEMIC
CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE
December - May 2016
IMPLEMENTATION OF PLAN
PLANNING SCHEDULE
August - November 2015
Phase IV
PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT
The timing for the final academic
program design and site selection
proposal and approval is late
Fall 2015, with an implementation
of Fall 2016.
Goal is for local and regional
planning groups to identify and
communicate preferred governance
model for the regionalization,
including several of the aspects of
the schools operations, such as
leadership reporting, oversight
and budgeting.
Phase I
SELF-ASSESSMENT Timing: February - March 2015
Accomplishments to date:
he Local Planning Groups have met
T
a few times since the process began.
Each LPG has:
• Surveyed fellow school families
to try and get a collective sense
of their school’s unique value
proposition and parish-school
relationship
• Toured and written an assessment
on their school facility
• Reviewed websites of all
participating schools
• Reviewed financial, enrollment,
school data
• Reviewed school parent survey
results on desired components of
regional schools curricular and cocurricular programs
The self-assessment phase will
conclude around the end of
spring break. During the next phase,
Benchmarking, the Local Planning
Groups will complete a thorough
comparative analysis of the four
self-assessment studies compiled
in Phase I, as well as research
additional exemplary schools,
to determine best practices for
the new programs.
June - August 2015
Phase III
CURRICULUM & GRADE
CONFIGURATION
Goal is for each local planning
group to develop a final regional
program proposal, all four of
which will then be reviewed by the
regional planning group, with one
final recommendation given to the
Archdiocese.
April - May 2015
Phase II
BENCHMARKING
Goal is to objectively determine the
optimal elements to incorporate in
the regional plan, by also visiting
and analyzing both schools within
the regionalization program and
other exemplary schools.
February - March 2015
Phase I
SELF-ASSESSMENT
Goal is for the local planning group
to collect and analyze data through
school parent surveys on academics,
community engagement, marketing
and faith formation and facility tours,
to determine a unified perspective
of the unique offerings of their
own school.