Creating a learning environment that builds these qualities in our students requires that we keep those four pillars at the center as we plan programming. It also requires that we recruit and support outstanding faculty, 作为一个教学团体继续学习和成长, 不断完善我们的课程. 

We know our students will enter a world in which they will encounter both opportunities and challenges that none of us can yet imagine, and they will need to work collaboratively with all sorts of people in order to succeed in seizing those opportunities and developing creative solutions to those challenges. The more experiences we can give them to tussle with unsolved problems, 在不同的团队中工作, 有信心承担适当的风险, 为自己和他人辩护, 更好的.

The wiser we are about understanding all the aspects of girls’ development, the more successful we will be in supporting their growth as healthy, 独立的, strong young women ready to step out into this ever-changing world.

We know our students benefit from being in the company of a wide variety of classmates who share their love of learning, 体贴善良, and who are eager for the adventures learning and life have to offer. Ellis has a long tradition of attracting such students. We are particularly proud of the diversity of our student body. 我们喜欢说，在澳门新葡新京官方没有唯一的出路, and that we all benefit from connecting with people who are both similar and different from ourselves. Our students come from throughout the Pittsburgh metropolitan region, 并带来了丰富多样的人才, 利益, 生活经验, 和个性. We are eager for more families and girls to know about Ellis, 探索我们的学校和项目, and to become members of this dynamic and welcoming learning community.

当我们反思澳门官方老葡京的校园氛围时, we focus on our core beliefs around what is best for students and families. One of those deeply held tenets is that children and adolescents learn and grow best when they feel welcome and known, 并且可以完全做自己.

其次, we know that students thrive when the adults connected to their learning—at school and at home—work in partnership to support and challenge them, and when there is 开放 communication between families and teachers. Families are most confident about engaging in that kind of partnership when they, 太, 在学校感到受欢迎和熟悉, and when they have a rich understanding of the stages of development of their daughters and the underlying reasons behind the School’s curriculum and pedagogy. 

Another core principle at 澳门官方老葡京 is the value of being a diverse and inclusive school community. Not only do we know our students benefit from learning in community with others who bring different perspectives and experiences, but—as a school founded in order to enhance the ability of women to access opportunities commensurate with men at a time when that was a rarity—we carry a fierce and long-held commitment to the importance of equity and justice in making the world a better place for all.

We are deeply proud of our recent successes in creating school and community-oriented initiatives around equity and justice, and we strive to become even more compelling leaders in this work.

We are fortunate to have a beautiful and welcoming campus rich in history, while still evolving to support our ever-growing understanding of the best ways to foster student learning and community connection.

We are particularly excited about recent updates to our most heavily used and cherished spaces, 包括图书馆和礼堂, both of which play a central role in the experiences of our students and families.  

Our future priorities related to campus facilities are clear. We are committed to putting our resources towards maintaining and creating physical spaces that optimize student growth and further our goal of being a welcoming and inclusive school community. 美丽的建筑和场地是美妙的, 但这就是在这些空间里发生的事情, 以及这些空间如何帮助建立社区, 这是最重要的.

Any school would be remiss not to include a focus on the financial future of the school in a strategic plan. We are deeply grateful for all the ways in which our extended Ellis community has supported the School, and we take our role as stewards of that support very seriously. We are committed to developing clear and sustainable plans for the funding and operations of the School that will support our dynamic vision for the program and school community, while guaranteeing a healthy financial picture for the foreseeable future.

Our priorities reflect our commitment in three key areas. 第一个, we believe it is crucial that we continue to be able to attract and retain outstanding faculty, as we know that it is the faculty who are at the core of the experience for our students—what happens in classrooms at Ellis every day, 以及师生关系, are what make Ellis the remarkable school it has been for over 100 years. 第二个, we are committed to developing tuition models that make it possible for a diverse and compelling range of families to be able to send their daughters to Ellis. 最后, we believe that building a strong culture of philanthropy among all our constituents is instrumental in strengthening the sense of connection and community among those who care about, 和爱, 改变人生的学校.