Strategic Direction
Mulgrave has the luxury of being a maturing school. With just over 30 years of history, we have moved through rapid growth and are now an established school with great strengths built on outstanding facilities and robust, competitive applicant pools. At this stage, schools typically focus on complexity, nuance, refinement, and operationalising the mission and vision. It’s the right time to ask…how do we achieve ‘excellence’ through teaching and learning? And, we should also think of purpose in the greater sense…what is the impetus of education at its core?
We have the benefit of being confident in our identity and mandate, so we can focus on how we can create greater, far-reaching impact. This is why Mulgrave’s new strategic direction work pays attention to both the ‘mechanisms of excellence’ (fundamental components of teaching, learning, coaching, and learning experiences that deliver our stated aims) and how these experiences build student character, values, and skills to maximise the positive and purposeful difference they can make in the world. It is grounded in a proven emphasis of developing learner confidence with purpose.
Below, you can dive into the research work that has been undertaken, and the translation of this into the operational approach stewarded by the school’s leadership team and implemented by our talented and committed faculty and staff. The rollout of the formal strategic direction and related materials will take place in Fall 2025.
Hear from Craig Davis, Head of School
Cypress Magazine
Cypress Magazine explores Learner Confidence, Mulgrave's Learner Hierarchy of Needs, High Impact Teaching Strategies, and the role of Indigenous Education and Sustainability, key themes to help nurture purposeful students contributing to the Greater Good.
Learner Confidence with Purpose
The Learner Hierarchy of Needs demonstrates that when every student knows they are consistently making progress, self esteem also flourishes. Moving from belonging to self esteem to caring for others is built on the growth of confidence, and is foundational to helping our young people develop as good human beings. Click here for a more detailed image.
Fostering ‘learner confidence with purpose’ is the goal for each student’s personal growth as they move through the enriching opportunities provided along their Mulgrave journey. Learner confidence is essential in the nurturing of empathy, compassion, and collective community purpose. These are the steps required to realise the greater good.
The development of learner confidence with purpose is supported by our outstanding teaching and learning principles and practices linked to the best global research.
Work to Date
What's to Come
Expression of Interest - Open Door Sessions on Strategic Direction
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“...our current education system, focused on expertise and knowledge accumulation, is becoming increasingly irrelevant in an AI-dominated world. In this new landscape, human value will increasingly lie in wisdom-oriented skills such as critical and systems thinking, creativity, communication, and the ability to navigate complex, multifaceted problems.” - Wisdom Factories, AI, Games and the education of a modern worker." - Tim Dasey, MIT R&D leader and strategist