INNOVATE AND ENHANCE

Emerge as a Leading Experiential Learning Destination | Build on our foundation of academic excellence, ethical leadership, and environmental stewardship in order to become the leading K-12 experiential learning destination in the Intermountain West.

 

Highlights

• Deepen and expand existing experiential education and project-based learning, with a focus on the academic integration of real-world ethical and environmental challenges, starting in kindergarten through 12th grade.
• Strengthen and expand organizational partnerships, developing new collaborations for authentic learning opportunities and projects.
• Create an outdoor learning and leadership center, including the possibility of a backcountry hut, to facilitate hands-on environmental and ethical leadership education.
• Conduct a comprehensive audit of all programs in order to prioritize new initiatives, reallocate resources, and adapt our organizational framework to support them.
• Seek and elevate opportunities to involve students in advancing our strategic initiatives through experiential learning.

 

Elevate Academic Excellence | Ensure our academic program, school-wide learning environment, and teacher professional development opportunities are all aligned in order to maximize individual student growth.

Highlights

• Equip our students and graduates to recognize, understand, and lead in addressing the world’s most challenging issues.
• Examine and refine assessment practices across the K-12 arc to align with learning competencies and outcomes.
• Identify unique areas for Vail Mountain School to advance teaching excellence for professionals and encourage leadership beyond our campus.
• Assess our organizational framework to ensure it supports a learning and teaching environment where core knowledge and skills are the foundations for a challenging academic and experiential approach to real-world problem solving.

 

Aspire to a National and Global Reach | Develop a mission-focused strategy to attract families from across the nation and around the globe to Vail Mountain School for an education that uniquely combines challenging academics, experiential learning, and unparalleled access to the mountains.

Highlights

• Design, price, and develop scholarships and financial aid packages to attract top talent from across the nation and globe, ensuring a diverse and academically motivated student body.
• Organize and promote virtual and in-person open houses, webinars, and campus tours for prospective students and their families, emphasizing the benefits of experiential learning programs.
• Establish partnerships with aligned international schools and national snow sports organizations to give exposure to Vail Mountain School in order to attract academically motivated athletes of diverse backgrounds and geographic regions.
• Evaluate and refine the current snow sports program to maximize student potential, ensure an optimal learning and teaching environment for students and faculty, and enrich the entire community.