Strategic Plan

TYAS

Strategic Plan

Our Strategic Plan

Aligned and Integrated with our Five-Year Plan and CIS and WASC Accreditation

The strategic priorities of Taoyuan American School (TYAS) are guided by the school's Five-Year Strategic Plan and further informed and refined by feedback from the 2025 CIS/WASC Preparatory Engagement. Together, these have helped shape the school's focus on continuous improvement in areas such as governance and leadership, curriculum and assessment, multilingual learning, student well-being and safeguarding, professional growth, and organizational sustainability.

The Strategic Plan serves as the school's overarching long-term direction, while the accreditation process provides external feedback, evidence, and reflection that help strengthen priorities, monitor progress, and guide ongoing school improvement.

Five-Year Strategic Plan

2024–2029

Strategic Area 1: Governance, Leadership, and Organizational Capacity

Goal 1:

Strengthen the structures, people, and systems that support effective leadership, responsible governance, professional growth, and long-term institutional stability.

Objectives

  • 1.1 Strengthen Governance and Accountability

    Maintain a clear governance framework with defined roles, transparent decision-making, appropriate oversight, and regular review of school priorities.

  • 1.2 Develop Leadership Continuity and Succession

    Establish succession planning for leadership and key roles to support continuity, institutional knowledge, and sustainable school improvement.

  • 1.3 Strengthen Recruitment, Qualifications, and Retention

    Attract and retain high-quality faculty and staff through clear recruitment processes, recognized professional licenses and qualifications, competitive support, recognition, and opportunities for career growth and committed to TYAS's mission, vision, schoolwide learning outcomes, and strategic goals.

  • 1.4 Build a Culture of Professional Growth

    Provide systematic professional learning, mentoring, collaboration, and performance development for teaching and non-teaching staff in alignment with school priorities.

  • 1.5 Strengthen Stakeholder Voice and Communication

    Create consistent structures to gather, analyze, communicate, and respond to feedback from students, families, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders.

  • 1.6 Align Resources with Strategic Priorities

    Strengthen the connection between strategic planning, budgeting, resource allocation, and annual review so that priority initiatives are appropriately supported.

Strategic Area 2: Teaching, Learning, Curriculum, Assessment, and Multilingual Learning

Goal 2:

Provide a coherent, rigorous, inclusive, and future-ready learning experience in which curriculum, assessment, pedagogy, and language development work together to support every learner.

Objectives

  • 2.1 Embed Mission, Vision, and SLOs in Learning

    Ensure the school's guiding statements and Schoolwide Learning Outcomes are visible in curriculum design, classroom practice, assessment, and reflection.

  • 2.2 Strengthen Curriculum Coherence

    Develop and maintain horizontally and vertically aligned curriculum through consistent standards, unit planning, documentation, review cycles, and a centralized curriculum platform.

  • 2.3 Strengthen Assessment and Data Use

    Develop coherent assessment and reporting practices, use common expectations and benchmarks where appropriate, and use formative and summative evidence to improve instruction and student learning.

  • 2.4 Empower Multilingual Learners Across the Curriculum

    Develop a schoolwide inclusive approach that recognizes students' languages, cultures, and linguistic identities as assets. Strengthen academic language alongside disciplinary learning through content and language objectives, research-informed scaffolding, collaboration, and differentiated instruction.

  • 2.5 Strengthening Inclusive Language Support

    Clarify the roles, benchmarks, progression expectations, and collaborative practices that connect multilingual learner support with mainstream classroom instruction, with increasing emphasis on inclusive and non-pull-out approaches.

  • 2.6 Promote Deep, Transferable, and Student-Centered Learning

    Use inquiry, conceptual understanding, authentic application, interdisciplinary connections, and appropriate technology to help students transfer knowledge and skills beyond individual lessons and subjects. Gradually improve the standardized test results and achievement data.

  • 2.7 Build Teacher Capacity Through Collaboration and Inquiry

    Use professional learning, Subject Area PLC structures, coaching, peer learning, and action research to strengthen curriculum implementation, assessment literacy, multilingual pedagogy, and evidence-informed teaching.

Strategic Area 3: Student Well-Being, Safeguarding, and Belonging

Goal 3:

Nurture a safe, inclusive, caring, and responsive school environment in which students are known, supported, protected, and empowered to participate in the life of the school.

Objectives

  • 3.1 Embed Social-Emotional Learning

    Strengthen a coherent, developmentally appropriate SEL approach across curriculum, advisory, homeroom, and schoolwide experiences of multilingual learners for the multilingual learners through the CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning) framework.

  • 3.2 Strengthen Safeguarding Policy and Practice in Alignment to International Taskforce on Child Protection (ITFCP)

    Maintain clear child protection and safeguarding policies, reporting procedures, role-specific training, safe recruitment practices, and consistent implementation across the school.

  • 3.3 Develop Responsive Student Support Systems

    Strengthen counseling, health, academic support, and multi-tiered systems of support so that student needs are identified early and addressed appropriately.

  • 3.4 Strengthen Student Voice and Agency

    Use surveys, focus groups, student leadership, reflection, and feedback structures to ensure students help inform school improvement and well-being priorities.

  • 3.5 Promote Belonging, Inclusion, and Respect

    Foster relationships and practices that value diversity, multilingualism, cultural identity, empathy, restorative approaches, and respectful participation in the school community.

  • 3.6 Use Evidence to Monitor Well-Being and Safety

    Develop reliable systems for monitoring well-being, safeguarding, attendance, health, and student support data so that patterns inform leadership action and continuous improvement.

  • 3.7 Strengthen Health, Safety, and Digital Wellness

    Maintain appropriate facilities, health and safety procedures, signage, digital citizenship education, and safe online practices for students and adults.

Strategic Area 4: Global Citizenship, Community, and Partnerships

Goal 4:

Expand opportunities for students and the wider community to learn across cultures, contribute responsibly, build partnerships, and engage meaningfully with local and global contexts.

Objectives

  • 4.1 Strengthen Global Citizenship and Intercultural Competence

    Integrate global perspectives, cultural understanding, ethical responsibility, and meaningful engagement with diverse viewpoints across curriculum and co-curricular programs for multilingual learners.

  • 4.2 Expand International Partnerships and Mobility

    Develop partnerships with international schools and institutions for student and staff exchanges, collaborative projects, language experiences, and overseas experiential learning.

  • 4.3 Expand Student Leadership and Global Engagement

    Increase opportunities such as Model United Nations, robotics, arts, service, public speaking, global projects, and student-led initiatives that develop leadership and communication.

  • 4.4 Strengthen Parent, Alumni, and Community Partnerships

    Create meaningful opportunities for families, alumni, local partners, and community organizations to contribute to school life, learning, service, and long-term development.

  • 4.5 Deepen Connections to Taiwan

    Increase curricular and co-curricular opportunities that strengthen students' understanding of Taiwan, Taiwanese culture, local communities, and the school's responsibility within its host context.

Strategic Area 5: Sustainable Growth, Accreditation, and Future Readiness

Goal 5:

Ensure the school is financially, operationally, technologically, and institutionally prepared to sustain quality, respond to change, and advance its mission over time.

Objectives

  • 5.1 Achieve and Sustain CIS/WASC Accreditation

    Complete the joint accreditation process, respond thoughtfully to evaluation feedback, and use accreditation as one mechanism for sustained school improvement and accountability.

  • 5.2 Strengthen Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement

    Establish regular cycles of evidence collection, review, reporting, evaluation, and refinement across academic and operational priorities.

  • 5.3 Strengthen Enrollment and Retention

    Use strategic, mission-aligned approaches to attract and retain students, strengthen the family experience, and sustain appropriate enrollment growth.

  • 5.4 Ensure Financial Sustainability

    Diversify revenue where appropriate, maintain responsible budgeting and controls, and align financial decisions with long-term strategic priorities.

  • 5.5 Advance Emerging Technology and Digital Systems

    Invest in scalable learning and operational technologies, data systems, cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence that improve teaching, communication, decision-making, and efficiency.

  • 5.6 Plan for Facilities and Long-Term Campus Growth

    Maintain safe, effective facilities while advancing long-term planning for campus development, future program expansion, and changing enrollment needs.

  • 5.7 Strengthen Institutional Reputation and Communication

    Communicate the school's identity, progress, achievements, strategic priorities, and value proposition clearly and consistently to current and prospective stakeholders.

The Five-Year Roadmap

Goals by Phase

Years 1–2 · 2024–2026

Foundation & Short-Term Goals

  • Increase student enrollment.
  • Strengthen internal operations.
  • Prepare for CIS/WASC accreditation.
Years 3–4 · 2026–2028 Current Phase

Mid-Term Goals

  • Enhance international collaboration.
  • Enhance the curriculum and integrate technology.
  • Strengthen relationships with teachers and stakeholders.
  • Continue growth through the CIS/WASC accreditation process.
Year 5 · 2029

Long-Term Goals

  • Achieve CIS/WASC accreditation.
  • Launch the strategic expansion plan.
  • Sustain growth and innovation.

Major Future Development Projects

2025 and Beyond

In line with the guiding principles of the Five-Year Strategic Plan, several major developments will take place at TYAS in the coming years.

Campus Estate and Infrastructure Developments

TYAS is actively considering campus expansion and infrastructure renovation plans to further enhance overall educational development, improve facilities and equipment, and elevate teaching quality, in alignment with the objectives and action plans of the Five-Year Strategic Plan.

With the full support of the Board, a due diligence process is underway with professional legal and financial advisors to ensure sustainability and risk control. This significant renovation plan will be a key topic of internal discussion and decision-making over the next five years. It will require the support of relevant stakeholders and communication with education authorities, and will be one of the most critical strategic decisions for TYAS in the coming years.

Dual Accreditation from CIS and WASC

Obtaining accreditation from both the Council of International Schools (CIS) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) is a key step for TYAS in achieving teaching excellence, providing students with holistic educational opportunities, and developing them into globally minded leaders.

Building on the 2025 CIS/WASC Preparatory Engagement, TYAS is committed to fully meeting its goals throughout the entire accreditation cycle. This represents a shared commitment and collective effort from all key stakeholders of the school.

Read the Full Five-Year Strategic Plan