| Starts Year 2 | NCSSM curriculum standards will encourage the freedom to incorporate thoughtful innovation, careful risk-taking, reflective practices, and the promotion of original ideas. |
| Starts Year 2 | Innovation and creativity will be factors considered in hiring and evaluation practices. |
| Active | Our school calendar and/or daily/weekly schedule will allocate specific times for creative and innovative pursuits. |
| Starts Year 2 | The work environment at NCSSM will include collegiality, collaboration, recognition of employees’ contributions, and support for balanced lives for employees. |
| Active | Administration will clearly communicate expectations and protocols, value and honor innovation and creativity, be transparent in its decision-making, and be responsive to faculty and staff. |
| Active | NCSSM financial procedures for faculty and staff projects will be streamlined, flexible, clear, and responsive to instructional needs. |
| Starts Year 3 | Individual faculty and staff work schedules will be negotiable to allow time for innovation. |
| Starts Year 3 | NCSSM will have a professional development program that accounts for individual faculty and staff needs including internal and external collaboration. |
The status of each Specific Result is indicated as either “active” or as starting during a subsequent year of implementation. More detail about the implementation of each Strategy and Specific Result will be available in a Strategic Planning Annual Report published each fall. The first Annual Report will be published in the Fall 2013.