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Church Farm School Assistant Head of School/ Director of Academic Affairs Position Statement Exton, Pennsylvania July 1, 2021 Church Farm School Assistant Head of School/Director of Academic Affairs Position Statement Start Date: July 1, 2021 “Inspiring Boys – Fulfilling Dreams” THE POSITION Church Farm School (CFS), an Episcopal, independent, college preparatory, boarding and day school for boys in grades 9-12 located in Exton, PA seeks an Assistant Head of School and Director of Academic Affairs, effecKve July 1, 2021. The School is located 30 miles west of Philadelphia on a 140-acre campus in Chester County and named by Architectural Digest as Pennsylvania’s most beauful. The Assistant Head of School and Director of Academic Affairs is system, and the academic program Directors, communicate frequently integral to the senior leadership of for all students. He/she will have with parents and will represent the the School and will report to Head responsibility for the School’s Head of School during the head’s of School. He/she will be reaccreditaon process and absence from campus. He/she will have responsible for the academic subsequent reports, adhered to strong oversight of the School’s curriculum and all instrucon, the pernent government educaon educaonal program, plan and School’s annual and daily schedule, regulaons, oversight of all grading facilitate faculty meengs (and include and will be the key administrator for and reporng, and annual updang Staff on occasion), and will be versed in academic/technology staff, of the Student/Parent Handbook all aspects of teaching and learning, department chairs, faculty and Faculty Manual. faculty hiring, professional recruitment, professional The Assistant Head and Director of development, and student development, performance and Academic Affairs will offer periodic development. This is a unique evaluaon, the student advisory wrien reports to the Board of opportunity to play a lead role in CFS’s success, lead strong faculty, and herald the strength of boys’ educaon at an exceponal residenal school. Church Farm School is fully accredited by the Middle States Associaon of College and Secondary Schools (MSA), is a member in good standing at the Naonal Associaon of Independent Schools (NAIS), the Naonal Associaon of Episcopal Schools (NAES), the Associaon of Boarding Schools (TABS), the Secondary School Admissions Test Board (SSATB), and the College Entrance Examinaon Board (CEEB). Resource Group 175 Page 2 Church Farm School Assistant Head of School/Director of Academic Affairs Position Statement Start Date: July 1, 2021 MISSION AND HISTORY CFS serves a very diverse populaon of boys from a range of socio-economic circumstances seeking a transformaonal educaon. The educaonal and residenal life programs at CFS are shaped by the long-held beliefs, hopes and goals that are arculated in the School’s mission: “The Church Farm School prepares a diverse group of boys with academic ability and good character to lead producve and fulfilling lives by making college preparatory educaon financially accessible. Founded in 1918 by the Reverend Dr. Charles Wesley Shreiner, CFS has maintained its strong commitment to young men for over a century and it was Reverend Shreiner who passionately stated, “It has ever been my dream to establish a boys school that would take care of boys of ability and promise who otherwise might have no opportunity to gain such an educaon.” Core values of hard work and brotherhood have endured and with each successive decade, stronger college preparatory academic and co-curricular programs, revitalizaon of the campus and its structures, and renewed dedicaon to residenal boys’ educaon have prevailed. Today, CFS is a small, nurturing community of approximately 180 boys of which 174 are boarders. A day populaon of 6 students could expand to 25. Boarding students live in “coage” dorms housing 15-18 students each and are supervised, taught, and mentored by a caring group of administrators, faculty and staff dedicated to an “in loco parens” relaonship with the students. CFS provides the important social and emoonal support, supervision, care, and guidance that young men seek as they discover, understand and unlock their potenal, expand and explore their interests, and master new skills and new found talents. All at CFS are required to aXend weekly chapels and parcipate in a growing range of community service programs. Resource Group 175 Page 3 Church Farm School Assistant Head of School/Director of Academic Affairs Position Statement Start Date: July 1, 2021 ANNUAL BUDGET The School’s mission is supported by an annual budget of approximately $11 million that is fueled largely by the School’s extraordinary endowment of over 150 million. Ninety percent (90%) of students receive generous financial aid. Approximately 15% of the School’s annual revenue comes from tuion and annual fundraising yields approximately $1.5 million. Working with the Director of Finance and Operaons, the Assistant Head and the Director of Academics plans for and directs the academic and professional development budgets. THE CAMPUS AND ENVIRONS CFS is located within West Whiteland Township, Chester County, and in the residenal community of Exton, easily accessible by Philadelphia’s Main Line and U.S. Routes 202 and 30. Regional Rail (SEPTA) and Amtrak with direct service to NYC stop in Exton, and Philadelphia Internaonal Airport is about 35 minutes by car. Surrounded by 800 acres of open space and a nearby bike and jogging, trail, the campus is decisively unpretenous, but there is a welcoming and warm atmosphere that permeates the safe and beauful environment. Well-maintained facilies include Greystock Hall, the Wilkins Science Center, the Chapel of the Atonement, the Buck Family Center for the Arts, a gymnasium, and the eight-bed infirmary. Faculty homes are on campus or a short distance from the main hub of campus. In addion, there are athlec fields, an outdoor pool, a cross-country course, outdoor tennis courts, weight rooms, two baseball fields, a 400-meter track, and the Founder’s Pavilion, a mulpurpose field house. In 1985, CFS was listed as an historic district by the Naonal Register of Historic Places. The recent Campus Modernizaon is the result of a decade of planning and includes the creaon of a new comprehensive Arts Center, addion to and renovaon of Greystock Hall, the construcon of a new entrance to the campus, a five acres solar array, and the four rain gardens. CFS is commied to future renovaons and upgrades as it enhances structures to benefit the boys’ living in a well-rounded community. Resource Group 175 Page 4 Church Farm School Assistant Head of School/Director of Academic Affairs Position Statement Start Date: July 1, 2021 THE PEOPLE Students Faculty and Staff There is no queson that the Acve, intelligent, talented and With a student-faculty rao of 5:1, community embraces its Episcopal movated young men are at the it is evident that individual identy and values. All at the center of this unique enterprise. aXenon to each student, School adhere to an effecve and The young men hail from different responsible engagement, and contemporary honor code and locaons throughout the country collecve as well as personal resolutely believe in the values and and a growing number of growth are valued. Approximately beliefs that propel excellence in internaonal sites. The student 68% of the faculty and educaon, safety, and well-being of body is diverse and inclusive. Over administrave team possess the students who matriculate and 90% of day and boarding students advanced degrees and each are reside at the School. receive financial aid and each commied to the care, understands the generosies and development, academic prowess, Pursuing excellence by being sacrifices made by countless and maturity of the students. focused on what maXers, Church individuals for their exceponal Faculty and Staff serve as strong Farm School graduates are: care, educaon, safety, and models and mentors to the development. students across the learning and • Curious and passionate living environment, and the learners The students take personal personal aXenon for each day • Compelling communicators responsibility seriously and and boarding student is a • Healthy in mind, body, and sensively. Each young man’s signature of the program. Faculty spirit allegiance and support for one are required to fulfill two seasons • Persistent in the pursuit of another manifest in an effecve and of athlec coaching or akernoon excellence strong “brotherhood” and counsel acvity, and they either live in • Ethical agents of the as they thrive, mature and become dormitories or serve as affiliates common good exceponal individuals desned for with weekly duty one evening ach • Commied to global college placement and future week. responsibility success in life. Resource Group 175 Page 5 Church Farm School Assistant Head of School/Director of Academic Affairs Position Statement Start Date: July 1, 2021 Administraon Board of Directors THE PROGRAM The School’s leadership team There are 19 members on the CFS’s academic programming works collaboravely to School’s Board of Directors who emphasizes quality and depth within understand and guide all facets of govern with thoughul regard the context of core academic the School operaon in regular for the students, the professional mastery. In each discipline, students plenary meengs and in smaller community, operaons, and the understand and pursue essenal groups organized around internal many constuents at the School. skills, thereby preparing