As a community of learners, to what should we aspire?

The Fort Worth Academy Student Aspiration Matrix now answers that question.  The Matrix identifies eight conditions and seven virtues whose combinations and intersections define the optimal school environment; the creation, maintenance and celebration of which is everyone’s responsibility, every day.

The brainchild of Head of School, William Broderick, the Matrix and its content help to focus conversations concerning character building, collaboration, conflict resolution, and individual and group responsibilities.   Additionally, the Matrix is referenced frequently during morning announcements, class meetings, faculty meetings, and is helpful during discussions of characters’ motives and authors’ purposes in English classes as well as debates about decisions and their consequences during history classes.

Mr. Broderick credits the work of Michele Borba, EdD, author of Building Moral Intelligence and Parents Do Make a Difference, and Dream! Reach! Succeed!, a project of the National Association of Elementary School Principals made possible by the Hershey Company and the Quaglia Institute, for much of the scholarship behind the Matrix.