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Strategic Planning: The Future and Identify Their Organization's Goals and Objectives. The Process Includes

Strategic planning in education involves setting goals to improve student outcomes, determining actions to achieve those goals using available resources, and engaging parents and the community in the planning process. Common models for strategic planning in schools include "Plan on a Page" which focuses on student performance, human resources, partnerships and equity, and the VMOSA model which defines a vision, mission, objectives, strategies and action plans. Effective strategic planning requires getting all stakeholders on the same page, collaborative leadership, and early and ongoing community engagement.

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Strategic Planning: The Future and Identify Their Organization's Goals and Objectives. The Process Includes

Strategic planning in education involves setting goals to improve student outcomes, determining actions to achieve those goals using available resources, and engaging parents and the community in the planning process. Common models for strategic planning in schools include "Plan on a Page" which focuses on student performance, human resources, partnerships and equity, and the VMOSA model which defines a vision, mission, objectives, strategies and action plans. Effective strategic planning requires getting all stakeholders on the same page, collaborative leadership, and early and ongoing community engagement.

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Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is a process in which an organization's leaders define their vision for
the future and identify their organization's goals and objectives. The process includes
establishing the sequence in which those goals should be realized so that the organization can
reach its stated vision.

What is Strategic Planning in


Education?
 Is the process of setting goals, deciding on actions to achieve those
goals, and mobilizing the resources needed to take those actions.
  A strategic plan describes how goals will be achieved using available
resources.
  School districts of all sizes use strategic planning to achieve the broad
goals of improving student outcomes and responding to changing
demographics while staying within the given funding box.
 In top-performing schools, leaders have proactively shifted their
strategic planning process to genuinely include and involve parents and
other key constituent groups. They know that without community
support and the insight that comes with community engagement, their
strategic plans are likely to fail.

Strategic Planning Models in


Education
1.Plan on a page-
 It works by identifying four areas of strategic planning, with goals,
measures, and an action plan to achieve each one. 
 The four areas are broadly applicable to all schools:
 student performance,
 human resources,
 partnerships, and
 equity.

2.VMOSA model (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, and Action Plans.)


 It’s designed to help education leaders define a vision and
develop practical ways to bring about the necessary change.
 VMOSA is a practical planning process that can be used by any community organization
or initiative. This comprehensive planning tool can help an organization by providing a
blueprint for moving from dreams to actions to positive outcomes for the community.

 When you are starting your leadership of a school, or you are leading a new school.
 When the school is starting a new initiative or large project or is going to begin work
in a new direction.
 When your leadership team or the whole staff are moving into a new phase of a
project.
 When you are trying to invigorate an older initiative that has lost its focus or
momentum.

 VISION (The Dream)

- Your vision communicates what your team believes are the ideal
conditions for your school – how things would look if the issue important to
you were perfectly addressed. In general, vision statements should be:

-Understood and shared by all members of the school community.

-Inspiring and uplifting to everyone involved – there has got to be the


“what’s in it for me?” factor.

-Easy to communicate.

 MISSION (THE WHAT AND WHY)


- An organization's mission statement describes what the group is going
to do, and why it's going to do that. Mission statements are like vision
statements, but they're more concrete, and they are more "action-
oriented" than vision statements. Generally, they are: concise,
outcome-oriented, and inclusive.
 OBJECTIVES (HOW MUCH OF WHAT WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY WHEN)
- Objectives refer to specific measurable results for the initiative's broad
goals. An organization's objectives generally lay out how much of what
will be accomplished by when.
There are three basic types of objectives.
Behavioral objectives. These objectives look at changing
the behaviors of people (what they are doing and saying)
and the products (or results) of their behaviors.
Community-level outcome objectives. These are related
to behavioral outcome objectives, but are more focused
more on a community level instead of an individual level
Process objectives. These are the objectives that refer to
the implementation of activities necessary to achieve
other objectives.
 STRATEGIES (THE HOW)
-Strategies explain how the initiative will reach its objectives.
- Generally, organizations will have a wide variety of strategies that
include people from all the different parts, or sectors, of the community.
 .
 ACTION PLAN (WHAT CHANGE WILL HAPPEN, WHO WILL DO WHAT BY
WHEN TO MAKE IT HAPPEN)
-An organization's action plan describes in detail exactly how strategies
will be implemented to accomplish the objectives developed earlier in
this process. The plan refers to:
a) specific (community and systems) changes to be sought, and
b) the specific action steps necessary to bring about changes in all the
relevant sectors, or parts, of the community.
Action steps include:

 What will happen.


 Who will do what?
 Date to be completed.
 Resources required.
 Barriers or resistance (and a plan to overcome these).
 Collaborators (who else should know about this action?).

3. the Five-Step Model

is straightforward approach that begins by asking “How well are we doing?” before defining
improvements and a path to achieve them.
This is an adaptation of an original model first developed in 2001 by the then Department for
Education and Skills. It places learning and progress of learners at its very heart Again, it is a
straight-forward model that is most effective when all stakeholders are engaged in the change
management or development process as outlined in Figure 1:
Step 1: How well are we doing? This involves assembling and analysing evidence of pupil
performance – the most important indicator and contributory factors, most notably teaching,
leadership and management. Knowledge about current achievement is a necessary foundation to
move on to the second stage of the cycle.
Step 2: How much better should we aim to achieve and how do we compare with similar schools?
Information on pupil performance in other similar schools, particularly those schools achieving the
best results, provides a benchmark against which you can examine the standards achieved by your
own pupils, assess what more can be achieved, and explore why and how others are doing better.
Step 3: What must we change to achieve this? This is where schools determine their priorities for
the year ahead and set themselves realistic and challenging targets for improvement. It is important
that all staff are involved in the target-setting process as it helps them to own the targets and to
accept responsibility for achieving them.
Step 4: Planning for improvement and what actions we will take? The closer development plans get
to the work of children in classrooms, the greater the impact on achievement. These must be agreed
for each teaching group including the curricular targets.
Step 5: Implementation and review: Taking action and reviewing progress. If pupil achievement is to
rise, implementation of the plan needs to influence classroom practice and improve the quality of
teaching and learning. The evidence gathered in the final stage of the cycle allows schools to ensure
that the plan is delivering the outcomes planned for, and to make any necessary adjustments. It also
provides a valuable basis for beginning the next round of the cycle.

An example: Five-Step Model

 Step 1: Where are we now? Boys’ are under-achieving in written English across the school.
 Step 2: How do we know? Analysis of exam performance in internal and external testing.
 Step 3: Where do we want to be? Gap between boys and girls narrows by three per cent in
first year and five per cent in year two.
 Step 4: What will we do to achieve this? Targeted boys’ writing groups, targeted mentoring
for boys’ writing, staff training on boys’ writing strategies etc.
 Step 5: How will we know when we have succeeded? The gap between boys and girls
narrows as described above and boys’ exam performance improves as outlined above.

3 Keys to Strategic Planning


Success
1. Get Everyone on the Same Page
2. Be a Collaborative Leader
3. Engage Your Community Early and
Often

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