Strategic Plan - Burgundy Farm Country Day School
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Strategic Plan - Burgundy Farm Country Day School
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We believe children learn best in an inclusive, creative, and nurturing environment that engages the whole child. Students here are active partners in their education, and learning is joyful.
Academics
Academics
From its inception, Burgundy has educated children in innovative ways. Our students learn by doing. The school community and its two campuses offer a nurturing atmosphere that inspire creativity through the arts and develop critical thinking skills with an integrated curriculum and hands-on projects.
Admission
Admission
Burgundy educates children from Junior Kindergarten through grade 8. The admission process begins in the fall prior to the year in which a student enrolls.
B for Burgundy
Community
Community
Burgundy doesn’t just refer to our school or our campuses. Burgundy is a beloved community.
The Burgundy Difference
Burgundy Difference
The Burgundy community is united by its commitment to creating a learning community that affirms children for who they are and where they are developmentally and that helps all our students realize their full potential as students and as people.
Giving
Giving
The Burgundy that our students and families love and enjoy today is the product of a handful of families doing together what none could have done individually: purchasing land, rehabilitating and raising buildings, hiring a professional faculty.
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Strategic Plan
Strategic Plan
Our strategic plan is a community-developed “blueprint” published in 2017 and meant to be an enumeration of strategic school priorities and a guide for Board governance and leadership. The plan is considered to be a living document and one that can be flexible enough to respond to updated contexts. In 2021, the Board formally revisited the strategic plan and noted that the school has made meaningful progress on many strategies identified in the original plan. Symbols that appear in the strategies below indicate
✔
completed strategy,
◕
ongoing strategy, and
◔
beginning strategy. T
o view our current progress and strategy accomplishments, click
here.
Our strategic plan is comprised of three broad goal areas:
1. Prioritize our core value of diversity and equity to support an optimal learning environment and strongest community.
2. Support Burgundy’s research-based educational model with the best possible faculty, program, and facilities.
3. Safeguard our ability to serve families by strengthening the school’s long-term financial sustainability.
Our Diverse Community
Burgundy’s dynamic approach to learning is predicated upon a welcoming and diverse community where each child and their families feel connected and respected. Our community creates the foundation for learning and every wonderful thing that transpires at Burgundy.
We embrace Burgundy’s history and deep commitment to the core value of diversity and equity, with an equal welcome and fairness in all that Burgundy offers. Students learn that communities are strengthened by diversity, and appreciating differences is vital to creating a just, peaceful world.
By recruiting and sustaining a diverse student body, faculty-staff, and community, we strive to create the best environment to prepare all of our students for success in an increasingly dynamic and interconnected world. View our current progress
here
.
GOAL: Prioritize our core value of diversity and equity to support an optimal learning environment and strongest community.
Strategies:
– Maintain meaningful cross-cultural competencies and provide training for faculty, staff, trustees, and students.
◕
– Monitor and assess in a regular way ongoing diversity and equity efforts in admission, hiring, retention, financial aid, and curriculum development.
◕
– Ensure that recruitment and retention reflect our desire for our trustees, administration, faculty, staff, and student body to reflect the diverse populations of our region and country.
◕
– Provide the leadership team with training, authority, and support needed to influence relevant policy development, decision-making, budgeting, and management.
◕
– Increase the school’s commitment to collaboration with parents that supports the healthy development of children.
◕
Our Dynamic Program
At Burgundy, learning is joyful, nurturing each child’s innate curiosity. Our campuses provide access to nature and unique spaces to explore, learn, and play.
In Burgundy’s progressive education model, teachers encourage intellectual autonomy, personal responsibility, and artistic creativity to help students develop critical thinking skills and find their own paths to understanding.
We honor the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of children, allowing growth to unfold at each child’s own pace. View our current progress
here
.
GOAL: Support Burgundy’s research-based educational model with the best possible faculty, program, and facilities.
Strategies:
–
Excel in progressive education by a
ttracting, developing, and retaining teachers and staff who embody Burgundy’s mission, progressive philosophy, and core values.
◕
– Enhance place-based education, outdoor education, and learning in nature to fully utilize our combined campuses.
◔
–
Foster environmental sustainability/stewardship, beginning with adopting a new ‘sustainability mission’ statement.
◕
– Implement a cohesive health and wellness program in support of each student’s successful academic and personal JK-8 school journey.
✔
– Prepare for the sustainability and invigoration of the Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies campus with the development and implementation of a BCWS Master Plan.
✔
– Implement BCWS Master Plan through an RFP for construction and other services.
◕
– Begin groundwork for a new Alexandria Campus Master Plan.
◔
Our Bright Future
Burgundy is—and has been for 75 years—a leader in student-centered, innovative progressive education. And we want to be educating children for at least another 75!
Burgundy graduates are self-aware and confident, motivated, curious, and creative. Our students and graduates are fully engaged in their learning, achieve academic success, and advocate for themselves and others to successfully navigate and influence their world.
Equipped with a strong academic foundation and a deep understanding of their responsibility to their local and global communities, alumni credit Burgundy as having the greatest impact on their educational and life successes, happiness, and personal identities. View our current progress
here
.
GOAL: Safeguard our ability to serve families by strengthening the school’s long-term financial sustainability.
Strategies:
– Strongly articulate the value of the Burgundy experience to current families, prospective families, and supporters.
◕
– Tell our story boldly and confidently by investing in brand and marketing research, analysis, and consultation.
✔
– Establish a financial sustainability plan that balances optimal enrollment, tuition affordability, philanthropy, and financial aid models consistent with our core values.
◕
– Use our campuses and our creativity to enhance existing, and develop new, revenue sources.
◕
– Grow our Endowment to support Burgundy financial sustainability in the decades to come.
◔
Burgundy is a one-of-a-kind independent school for Junior Kindergarten through 8th Grade. We believe children learn best in an inclusive, creative, and nurturing environment that engages the whole child.
3700 Burgundy Road
Alexandria, VA 22303
703.960.3431
Accredited by:
Affiliated with:
Partners with:
©2026 Burgundy Farm Country Day School
Designed and developed by
The Design Channel
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Links
Veracross Parent Portal
Burgundy's Library
Burgundy Barnyard
Camps
Summer Camp
Nature Camp at BCWS
Blog
Calendar
Shop
Burgundy Spirit Wear
Blazers Fan Gear
Facility Rentals
Contact
About
About
We believe children learn best in an inclusive, creative, and nurturing environment that engages the whole child. Students here are active partners in their education, and learning is joyful.
Academics
Academics
From its inception, Burgundy has educated children in innovative ways. Our students learn by doing. The school community and its two campuses offer a nurturing atmosphere that inspire creativity through the arts and develop critical thinking skills with an integrated curriculum and hands-on projects.
Admission
Admission
Burgundy educates children from Junior Kindergarten through grade 8. The admission process begins in the fall prior to the year in which a student enrolls.
B for Burgundy
Community
Community
Burgundy doesn’t just refer to our school or our campuses. Burgundy is a beloved community.
The Burgundy Difference
Burgundy Difference
The Burgundy community is united by its commitment to creating a learning community that affirms children for who they are and where they are developmentally and that helps all our students realize their full potential as students and as people.
Giving
Giving
The Burgundy that our students and families love and enjoy today is the product of a handful of families doing together what none could have done individually: purchasing land, rehabilitating and raising buildings, hiring a professional faculty.
About
Home
>
About
>
Strategic Plan
Strategic Plan
Our strategic plan is a community-developed “blueprint” published in 2017 and meant to be an enumeration of strategic school priorities and a guide for Board governance and leadership. The plan is considered to be a living document and one that can be flexible enough to respond to updated contexts. In 2021, the Board formally revisited the strategic plan and noted that the school has made meaningful progress on many strategies identified in the original plan. Symbols that appear in the strategies below indicate
✔
completed strategy,
◕
ongoing strategy, and
◔
beginning strategy. T
o view our current progress and strategy accomplishments, click
here.
Our strategic plan is comprised of three broad goal areas:
1. Prioritize our core value of diversity and equity to support an optimal learning environment and strongest community.
2. Support Burgundy’s research-based educational model with the best possible faculty, program, and facilities.
3. Safeguard our ability to serve families by strengthening the school’s long-term financial sustainability.
Our Diverse Community
Burgundy’s dynamic approach to learning is predicated upon a welcoming and diverse community where each child and their families feel connected and respected. Our community creates the foundation for learning and every wonderful thing that transpires at Burgundy.
We embrace Burgundy’s history and deep commitment to the core value of diversity and equity, with an equal welcome and fairness in all that Burgundy offers. Students learn that communities are strengthened by diversity, and appreciating differences is vital to creating a just, peaceful world.
By recruiting and sustaining a diverse student body, faculty-staff, and community, we strive to create the best environment to prepare all of our students for success in an increasingly dynamic and interconnected world. View our current progress
here
.
GOAL: Prioritize our core value of diversity and equity to support an optimal learning environment and strongest community.
Strategies:
– Maintain meaningful cross-cultural competencies and provide training for faculty, staff, trustees, and students.
◕
– Monitor and assess in a regular way ongoing diversity and equity efforts in admission, hiring, retention, financial aid, and curriculum development.
◕
– Ensure that recruitment and retention reflect our desire for our trustees, administration, faculty, staff, and student body to reflect the diverse populations of our region and country.
◕
– Provide the leadership team with training, authority, and support needed to influence relevant policy development, decision-making, budgeting, and management.
◕
– Increase the school’s commitment to collaboration with parents that supports the healthy development of children.
◕
Our Dynamic Program
At Burgundy, learning is joyful, nurturing each child’s innate curiosity. Our campuses provide access to nature and unique spaces to explore, learn, and play.
In Burgundy’s progressive education model, teachers encourage intellectual autonomy, personal responsibility, and artistic creativity to help students develop critical thinking skills and find their own paths to understanding.
We honor the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of children, allowing growth to unfold at each child’s own pace. View our current progress
here
.
GOAL: Support Burgundy’s research-based educational model with the best possible faculty, program, and facilities.
Strategies:
–
Excel in progressive education by a
ttracting, developing, and retaining teachers and staff who embody Burgundy’s mission, progressive philosophy, and core values.
◕
– Enhance place-based education, outdoor education, and learning in nature to fully utilize our combined campuses.
◔
–
Foster environmental sustainability/stewardship, beginning with adopting a new ‘sustainability mission’ statement.
◕
– Implement a cohesive health and wellness program in support of each student’s successful academic and personal JK-8 school journey.
✔
– Prepare for the sustainability and invigoration of the Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies campus with the development and implementation of a BCWS Master Plan.
✔
– Implement BCWS Master Plan through an RFP for construction and other services.
◕
– Begin groundwork for a new Alexandria Campus Master Plan.
◔
Our Bright Future
Burgundy is—and has been for 75 years—a leader in student-centered, innovative progressive education. And we want to be educating children for at least another 75!
Burgundy graduates are self-aware and confident, motivated, curious, and creative. Our students and graduates are fully engaged in their learning, achieve academic success, and advocate for themselves and others to successfully navigate and influence their world.
Equipped with a strong academic foundation and a deep understanding of their responsibility to their local and global communities, alumni credit Burgundy as having the greatest impact on their educational and life successes, happiness, and personal identities. View our current progress
here
.
GOAL: Safeguard our ability to serve families by strengthening the school’s long-term financial sustainability.
Strategies:
– Strongly articulate the value of the Burgundy experience to current families, prospective families, and supporters.
◕
– Tell our story boldly and confidently by investing in brand and marketing research, analysis, and consultation.
✔
– Establish a financial sustainability plan that balances optimal enrollment, tuition affordability, philanthropy, and financial aid models consistent with our core values.
◕
– Use our campuses and our creativity to enhance existing, and develop new, revenue sources.
◕
– Grow our Endowment to support Burgundy financial sustainability in the decades to come.
◔
Burgundy is a one-of-a-kind independent school for Junior Kindergarten through 8th Grade. We believe children learn best in an inclusive, creative, and nurturing environment that engages the whole child.
3700 Burgundy Road
Alexandria, VA 22303
703.960.3431
Accredited by:
Affiliated with:
Partners with:
©2026 Burgundy Farm Country Day School
Designed and developed by
The Design Channel
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