Coram Deo Academy
Goals for 2003-2004
September, 2003

The short term goals of Coram Deo Academy grow out of and help to implement our mission, vision and core values. They are designed to experience some adjustment year by year as the CDA Strategic Plan is developed and improved over time.

Mission:

Coram Deo Academy exists to transform the minds of Christian youth and their parents so they live all of life before God. We partner with parents to inculcate a comprehensive and historic Christian Faith, a biblical world and life view that with God’s mercy will gradually reshape western culture for the glory of God. We accomplish this through classical education in the presence of God that is professionally executed and personal in its nurture.

...see: A Transforming Vision

Vision:

We envision thousands of Christian youth trained over time in a biblical worldview through a system of Coram Deo Academy campuses in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.

Core Values:

Coram Deo Academy is classical and Christian; professional and personal

…see A Statement of Core Values

Goals:

Coram Deo Academy’s short term goals include qualitative classroom development, improving our personal approach, formalizing our strategic plan, starting an annual gifting campaign and launching Coram Deo Academy of North Dallas.

• Strive for qualitative improvement in every classroom.
• Provide continuing education for classroom faculty and parent educators through a quarterly publication, seminars lead by our college of faculty, guest lecturers, conferences and advanced study.
• Emphasize a more personal approach to relationships with families; both communicating from school to home and listening to input from CDA families.
• Formalize a strategic plan in conjunction with a planning advisory team consisting of representatives from the CDA Board, faculty and staff and parent constituency.
• Begin an annual gifting campaign to support short term goals and the strategic plan that is chaired by a different CDA parent each year.
• Open Coram Deo Academy of North Dallas for the 2004-5 academic year.

Tuition and fees at Coram Deo Academy are set to provide for quality year to year operation of our classical and Christian program. In order to afford important accoutrements, extension of the Academy to reach additional families and ownership of a campus CDA seeks to develop a culture of giving and a base of support to meet our goals.

• Select the first chairperson of the annual Coram Deo Academy gift campaign to raise funds to advance the strategic plan and goals of CDA.
• Define the categories and financial goals that are reasonable during the first year with some revision each year.

  • Providing for Pillars: Funding long term retention and enrichment of outstanding faculty to advance the educational program of CDA. Provide this through seminars, advanced studies and time provision for exceptional faculty to reach a broader audience through writing, publishing and public speaking.
  • Funding Student Financial Aid: Providing any qualifying family who needs help to continue the education of their children at CDA during temporary financial hardship.
  • Funding development of excellent science laboratory, fine arts studio, dramatic and multimedia facilities and equipment that cannot be supported through tuition.
  • Begin a Booster Club to raise additional funds for better athletic equipment, additional buses for transportation and improved access to sports facilities.
  • Coram Deo Academy Extension: Raise funds to extend the ministry of Coram Deo Academy to other regions in the DFW Metroplex. The first of these additional campuses is scheduled to open in 2004 as Coram Deo Academy of North Dallas.
• If the strategic plan calls for purchase of land and development of a campus then a capital campaign would be started with well defined goals in addition to an annual gifting campaign for the kinds of things addressed above.

In response to requests from dozens of families in North Dallas Coram Deo Academy announces plans to open a campus in this region August 2004. Coram Deo Academy of North Dallas intends to offer Kindergarten through Sixth grade programs two to three days per week in the first year. If there is sufficient interest in grades seven and eight these offerings will be seriously considered. Express your interest in or support for this endeavor at Coram Deo Academy of North Dallas.