Strategic Plan

Equipping Students to Serve and Glorify God

Grandville Calvin Christian exists to partner with families “to equip students to serve and glorify God.” This is both for right now and for the future. Our desire is for students – regardless of their age – to understand that this is the purpose for which God created them.

As you read about our schools’ strategic plan for 2026-2031 and reflect on this vision for the future for GCCS, please join us in prayer for clarity, unity, and a recommitment to our individual and collective roles as God’s Kingdom servants.

Grandville Calvin Christian is a community of faith and learning that is serving together in faith.

“So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip His people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” (Ephesians 4:11-13)

You will find here the six broad goal areas defined by GCCS as our priorities in the years to come. Each of these six areas states a broad, system-wide goal, followed by high-level strategies and tactics. As the new strategic plan is prayerfully and intentionally implemented in coming years, the Board will report regularly on progress on these goals. We ask for your faithful partnership in supporting this work as we carry out our mission to build God’s Kingdom here.

Educating the whole child is central to the work of a Christian school. We not only care about academic learning but also about the spiritual, relational, and socio-emotional health and growth of our students. With our mission of equipping students to serve and glorify God as the key guide for all we do, we seek to be intentional about integrating faith with learning and ensuring that our practices in pedagogy and community-building complement our curriculum in order to help students to grow in faith in Christ.

  • Strategy A – Utilize Everyday Christian Teaching in Professional Development with Staff
  • Strategy B – Implement GCCS “Portrait of a Graduate”
  • Strategy C – Develop Service Opportunities for Students
  • Strategy D – Ensure Explicit Documentation of Faith and Discipleship Practices

Our employees are our greatest asset and the individuals who carry the mission of equipping students to serve and glorify God to our students and their families. We need to ensure that we are investing in our staff as people and employees.

  • Strategy A – Develop a Financial Plan to Increase Staff Compensation and Benefits
  • Strategy B – Hiring Teachers / Cultivating Teacher Pipelines
  • Strategy C – Develop New Staff Orientation Plan

GCCS will establish a culture that works to promote a sense of belonging for all stakeholders in the GCCS community, including students, teachers, parents, and the broader surrounding community. By equipping GCCS staff to more effectively understand and serve the broad array of students and families who constitute our school constituency, we will be better able to meet the unique needs of each of our students as we cultivate a community of faith and learning where everyone will flourish.

  • Strategy A – Students and Staff are Connected Through Relationships and Learning About One Another
  • Strategy B – Develop Parent Ambassadors and/or Mentor Program
  • Strategy C – Develop Volunteer Involvement Program to Serve Generously
  • Strategy D – Engage Alumni

GCCS is committed to making Christ-centered education accessible to every family who desires it. By reviewing ways to expand our Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), we aim to remove financial barriers for families so that a quality Christian education is available to more families and their children.

  • Strategy A – Review Opportunities to Expand GCCS’s Tuition Support
  • Strategy B – Explore SGOs and Other Tuition Assistance Models Around the Country

Over the past few school years, GCCS staff have been learning about the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) framework and the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework. Staff have attended trainings hosted by Solution Tree and worked together in their grade-level and content-area teams to focus on horizontal and vertical curriculum alignment. We have clarified what we want students to know and be able to do as learning outcomes.

GCCS has also begun to develop the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework on each campus. This framework allows us to utilize our staff in the most appropriate ways to systematically support the individual learning, behavioral, and socio-emotional needs of our students.

  • Strategy A – Continued Professional Learning Community (PLC) Implementation
  • Strategy B – Continued Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) Implementation

GCCS must always be both living in the present and thinking about the future. This goal area aims to keep GCCS thinking forward about how we best support our staff and invest in our resources–both human and capital–in order to create a sustainable and thriving future for our Christian schools.

  • Strategy A – Intentional Marketing and Enrollment Strategies
  • Strategy B – Facility Master Planning
  • Strategy C – Develop a 3-to-5 Year Strategic Financial Plan
  • Strategy D – Grow the Additional Revenue Streams for GCCS
    • Tactic 1 – Continue to Grow the GCCS Foundation
    • Tactic 2 – Leadership Succession Planning for Nice Twice and Calvin’s Car Lot
  • Strategy E – Initiate the “Together in Faith” Campaign

If you would like to learn more about the Strategic Plan, please contact the Head of School, Eric Burgess.