Building on Hockaday’s 107-year-old foundation, which is firmly footed in the Four Cornerstones of Character, Courtesy, Scholarship, and Athletics, the School’s strategic plan has been refreshed to reflect the purpose and priorities of the School. Hockaday’s Leadership Team, Faculty, Staff, and Trustees worked collaboratively during the Fall 2018 to develop this updated blueprint which captures our aspirational goals and affirms the progressive and strategic direction of the School.
Believing in the limitless potential of girls, Hockaday develops resilient, confident women
who are educated and inspired to lead lives of purpose and impact.
Hockaday will engage every girl in a shared journey of discovery, integrity, scholarship, and accomplishment.
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Articulate the philosophy of a Hockaday education, including the skills we will deliver to help girls become lifelong learners and confident contributors to their families, communities, and workplaces.
Define excellence to encourage individual and collaborative exploration, courage, creativity, perseverance, risk-taking, failing forward, and the pursuit of purpose through academics, arts, and athletics.
Promote a teaching environment that supports faculty excellence and cultivates innovative pedagogies, interdisciplinary learning, effective use of new technologies, integration between curricular and cocurricular learning, collaboration, and professional development.
Expand project-based and experiential learning opportunities through exploring partnerships with non-profit entities, businesses, higher education, and community organizations.
Educate and equip Hockaday students with practical tools and knowledge so that they may successfully navigate a complex and connected digital landscape.
Re-examine assessment practices to fully support intellectual risk-taking, collaboration, innovation, and creative exploration.
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Teach and model the Four Cornerstones (Character, Courtesy, Scholarship, and Athletics), recognizing and more strongly connecting the learning and growth that occurs across all facets of the student experience.
Encourage and allow sufficient time for girls to discover and engage their talents and purpose, integrating a rich array of curricular and co-curricular opportunities.
Develop programs to support and enhance each student’s physical, mental, social and emotional well-being, and intentionally address factors (both within the School and in society) that threaten this well-being.
Embrace and support a wide range of student learning profiles.
Strengthen the sense of community, collaboration, pride, and connection to all members of the Hockaday family: day students, residence students, faculty, staff, alumnae, parents, grandparents, and parents of alumnae.
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Foster a climate where mutual respect catalyzes learning, creativity, and collaboration, building life-long bonds.
Recruit, develop, and support excellent faculty and staff while enhancing faculty diversity of perspectives, background, and teaching styles as defined by the Tenets of Faculty Excellence.
Retain excellent faculty and staff by attending to their mental and physical wellbeing.
Attract, enroll, and support best-matched students who enhance and embrace diverse perspectives, talents, backgrounds, and learning profiles.
Incorporate diverse perspectives and cross-cultural skills into Hockaday’s curriculum and culture to equip all students for living in a complex and increasingly diverse world.
Extend opportunities for innovative, multicultural learning through travel and exchange programs, community engagement and service learning, online instruction, and other opportunities to enrich students’ experiences and perspectives.
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Assess the competitive landscape and market pressures to more effectively define and communicate the “value proposition” of a Hockaday education.
Maximize the use of Hockaday’s resources to sustain academic and co-curricular excellence, enhance affordability and access, and achieve School goals and facility needs.
Challenge our operational model and adapt decision-making to innovate without adding.
Evaluate opportunities to grow and diversify revenue streams to support Hockaday’s mission.
Build support among all our constituencies by cultivating connections and engagement, with a goal of increasing participation in our fundraising efforts.
Sustain and grow loyalty by telling Hockaday’s story through the generational voices of its alumnae, faculty, students, and families.
Hockaday continues to provide the best possible educational experience for our girls and we are already implementing the plan, which includes two School-wide Work Groups to address key priorities of the plan. These two Work Groups are focused on The Quality of the Student Experience and Educational Innovation. As a community, we are committed to an extraordinary student experience both inside and outside of the classroom.
Hockaday was one of 209 schools to earn the College Board AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science.
High school students from all over Texas prepare and audition to participate in the Texas Private School Music Educators Association (TPSMEA) All-Region and All-State festivals. This year, 14 members of the Upper School Concert Choir were selected and invited to sing with the Treble and Mixed All-Region choirs. Additionally, seven of these students advanced and were selected to sing in the All-State Choir Festival in January. Congratulations to the following Hockaday Upper School students!
All-Region: Georgia Fuller (Class of 2025), Layo Isaacs-Sodeye (Class of 2024), Aiswarya Koratala (Class of 2025), Neha Kumar (Class of 2023), Charlotte Lauten (Class of 2024), Megan Manning (Class of 2023), and Mia Matthews (Class of 2025).
All-Region and All-State: Erin Antes (Class of 2024), Zoe Bennett (Class of 2026), Jessica Cai (Class of 2024), Caraday Martin (Class of 2023), Aneeka Misra (Class of 2026), Jessica Moran (Class of 2026), Laya Ragunathan (Class of 2024)
Congratulations to our four Hockaday Middle School First LEGO League teams who won big at their North Texas FLL Regional Qualifier this year.
Daisies Energized (Aiza Ali, Joyce Jin, Sudha Kodem, Evie Lewis, Cate Strom, Kayla Zhang) competed at Academy High School in Plano on December 10th. They won the Engineering Excellence Award and 2nd place Robot Performance Award, in addition Mrs. Laura Baker won the Coach’s Award at this event.
Flower Powered (Cecilia Chen, Siena Ebert, Virginia Epperson, Margaret Hohenshelt, Kashmira Kuloor, Naisha Randhar) won the 2nd Place Champions Award at Williams High School in Plano on December 10th, 2022.
Power Pandas (Jenny Chu, Hannah Park, Sophia Salem, Natalia Salem, Ira Sirohi) won the 2nd Place Champions Award at UME Preparatory School in Dallas on January 14th, 2023.
Might-ochondria (Kavya Chava, Miranda Chen, Michelle Cheng, Ameya Indaram, Sara Sidi, Connie Zhao) won 2nd Place Champions Award at Shelton School in Dallas on December 17th, 2022.
In addition to these impressive awards, all four teams were each awarded a coveted spot at the North Texas Championship competition to be held in February 2023.
Congratulations to the 2023 Hockaday Scripps Spelling Bee Champion, Carolyn Mitchell (Class of 2027). Runners-up were Natalia Salem (Class of 2027) and Yuna Son (Class of 2028). Carolyn will go on to represent Hockaday at the Dallas County Private School Bee!