Strategic Plan 2025-2030

Measures:

1. Balanced budget with zero subsidy from IWAF (not including tuition assistance grant) by 2030.

2. Campus wide student enrollment of 600 by 2030.

3. Academy unification and consistency across campus and all three levels.

4. Unrestricted fundraising of $350,000 net per year.

ACTIONS:             

1. Continually assess programs to invest in value-generating programs and divest in underperforming initiatives.

2. Create a committee to evaluate, implement, and promote vouchers once final parameters are available.

3. Evaluate staffing structures to identify opportunities to collaborate, consolidate and streamline initiatives and effectiveness.         

4. Analyze budget to maximize cost savings opportunities.

5. Evaluate budgeting software and audit frequency to maximize efficiency.

6. Combine the three Level PTOs into one Academy PTO to foster campus wide consistency and collaboration.

7. Plan and implement a robust volunteer management system for parents, alumni, and IWA community members.

8. Maximize reliance on volunteers for fundraising events to increase Advancement Team’s ability to focus on major gifts.

9. Establish guidelines for donation requests from all groups to reduce asks to parents and to ensure adequate focus on fundraising for unrestricted dollars.

10. Cultivate donor, alumni, and parent relationships to increase unrestricted giving to IWA. 11. Evaluate, expand and enhance recruitment and retention initiatives through targeted marketing, faculty and staff training, implementation of customer service best practices, and additional volunteer and/or personnel support.

MEASURES:

1.Student participation in community service programs and outreach (especially those aligning with Sisters’ focus on care of creation, human trafficking, immigration and interculturality,

2. Increased opportunities for spiritual celebration and recognition.

3. New opportunities for parent involvement and collaboration.

ACTIONS:     

1. Expand Incarnate Word de Matels to nurture spiritual growth across campus with a structure designed specifically for each level.

2. Collaborate with Sisters for prayer intentions and advocacy, and create grade-appropriate service projects for the four focus areas

3. Provide periodic Masses or prayer meetings for athletes throughout the year, including a Mass or prayer meeting to start the school year.

4. Identify and convert a space in the HS to be a dedicated prayer space for students to reflect, pray, and seek spiritual guidance.

5. Encourage families to form and participate in prayer groups that meet regularly on campus to pray the Rosary.

6. Develop activities that engage students, parents, faculty, staff and the broader community in strengthening their faith through service and prayer.

7. Evaluate options for recognizing students who receive sacraments during the year, possibly at Mass, while taking care to be sensitive to non-Catholic students.

8. Provide a mechanism for parents to know, select, and be trained in various spiritually-enriching volunteer opportunities on campus.

MEASURES:

1. Testing outcomes (Iowa, PSAT, ACT/SAT, AP, ARK)

2. New academic offerings.

3. Vertical alignment across all three levels and within each subject department.

4. Religion curriculum that promotes learned and lived spirituality.

ACTIONS:   

1. Create new course offerings, especially in Fine Arts.

2. Increase dual credit opportunities through area college partnerships.

3. Conduct end-of-year summative course review to strengthen subsequent year’s curriculum.

4. Strengthen religion curriculum objectives relative to the domains tested in ARK.

5. Promote diverse student club offerings within the IWA community and encourage student participation.

6. Using assessment data, design professional development (PD) to address areas of need.

7. Provide PD on topics of AI and other current trends in education.

8. On the half day in May, provide teachers an opportunity to share objectives met during the current year to maximize vertical alignment in the subsequent years.

9. Review HSL religion curriculum to ensure religious knowledge and encourage spiritual life to prepare students for life after IWA.

MEASURES:

1.Long range facilities improvement plan.

2. Reduced carbon footprint and electricity usage.

3. Expanded campus security

4. Bi-annual active shooter drills with varied scenarios.

ACTIONS:     

1. Develop a master plan for improvements to the Austin Street Athletic Complex.

2. Conduct an audit of signs on campus to repair, replace or add signs as needed, and develop sign standards.

3. Create a subcommittee to conduct an aesthetics assessment on campus to identify and plan for needed improvements and help seek funding and/or volunteer manpower.

4. Evaluate assets and infrastructure to determine useful life, identify repairs, estimate replacement cost and timing, and plan for future demand/growth.

5. Continue Go Green initiatives to upgrade thermostats, convert outdoor/indoor halogen lights to LED, provide education for energy saving best practices, tint windows throughout campus (pursue possible security grant), analyze electricity usage to identify problem areas, and create an SOP for efficient operation of boilers and chillers.

6. Create a subcommittee to conduct a security vulnerability assessment, identify number and locations for additional cameras, ensure adequate number of radios, and analyze incident reports to ensure corrective actions taken.

7. Use local and state law enforcement to conduct active shooter training, conduct varied bi-annual campus wide drills, add smaller drills that only involve the first and second level responders, and assess communications during drills