What is a Multi-Year Strategic Plan (MYSP)?
A strategic plan helps define and share the direction the organization will take in the next five years. It includes the organization’s vision and mission statements, goals and the actions to achieve those goals.
- Learn more: HWDSB Multi-Year Strategic Plan
What is a Vision?
A vision statement describes an organization’s long-term goals, and how it wants to make a difference in the future.
- Our Vision: Growing Together.
What is a Mission?
A mission statement is an action-based statement that declares the purpose of an organization and how it serves their stakeholders.
- Our Mission: To ensure that every student experiences a sense of belonging and engages in dynamic learning to reach their potential and build their own future.
What are Values in a Multi-Year Strategic Plan?
Values list the core principles that guide and direct an organization and its culture.
- Our Values: Compassion, Dignity, Trust and Joy.
What are Strategic Directions?
Strategic Directions define a course of action that leads to the achievement of an organization’s goals.
Our Strategic Directions:
- Upholding Human Rights, Safety & Well-Being
- We will support all students and staff to feel safe and secure in our classrooms and school communities.
- Providing Equitable Quality Education
- We will offer equitable quality educational opportunities to improve student engagement, learning and achievement for future-readiness.
- Collaborating with Students, Families & Communities
- We will build reciprocal relationships and partnerships to enhance access and engagement for students, families, and communities.
- Building a Sustainable Education System
- We will adapt to a rapidly changing world through responsible fiscal management, investing equitably in accessible and sustainable facilities, and supporting a robust workforce.
- Reinforcing Indigenous Educational Wellness & Reconciliation
- We will honour our commitment to Truth and Reconciliation by nurturing respectful and reciprocal relationships among Indigenous Peoples and Treaty Partners, and by cultivating intergenerational healing and wellness in a restorative education system.
What is a Tagline?
A tagline is a phrase that serves as an expression of an organization’s greater purpose and mission.
- Our Tagline: Be You. Be Excellent.
How was the Multi-Year Strategic Plan developed?
HWDSB received help from a team of strategic planning specialists and innovative thinkers to support this journey. Together, with teams from Groundswell, Saffy and I-Think, HWDSB students, staff, families and community members contributed to the following:
- 1 Public Meeting with 100+ Participants
- 5 Youth-led Pop-ups
- 6 Community Pop-ups
- 7 Advisory Groups and Student Leadership Workshops
- 43 Interviews
- 3000 Survey Responses
- Challenge Kits in HWDSB schools with contributions from hundreds of students
These engagement opportunities helped to inspire and develop our new vision, mission, values, Strategic Directions and tagline. Our new path forward for HWDSB is specifically designed to enhance our existing work – centered on students having a deep and meaningful sense of belonging while experiencing impactful learning outcomes for all.
Has the HWDSB logo changed?
Yes, the HWDSB logo has been refreshed to celebrate the launch of the Multi-Year Strategic Plan. The HWDSB logo is a letterform logo. The typeface remains the same, but the kerning (the spacing between the letters) has been tightened up and the colour has been updated from our old board blue to the new blue to match the brand colours of our MYSP branding.
Is this a rebrand for the entire organization?
The first phase of this creative rebrand was meant to provide a specific design and creative approach for the launch of the new Multi-Year Strategic Plan. You will begin to see this creative direction applied to organizational-wide items (e.g. logos, website, memo templates, email signatures etc.) and other platforms in an ongoing fashion. Future phases will include additional photoshoots, digital materials and more.
Updated on Friday, January 19, 2024.