EDUCATION STRATEGY

To local school officials, taxpayers in a community share much in common with stakeholders in a publicly traded company. The proof is that superintendents and boards of education spend months and even years designing strategic plans for education that serve almost the same functions as a company's annual financial reports. These educational road maps portray officials' vision for the schools' future while presenting strategies to improve results, objectives to realize goals and key indicators to measure performance. Methods Brainstorm a list of goals for improving student achievement. Arrange goals in order of importance to the district at large. For example, the first goal might be to boost the high school graduation rate. The last goal might be to revamp language arts instruction at one of the elementary schools. Write an introduction summarizing those goals and expressing the district's educational vision. Refer to successes and shortcomings of prior strategic p...

A school's strategic plan is the school's road map for the next several years. The school board, superintendent and school administrators spend months or even longer on a strategic plan. The document goes through several writing, approval and revision cycles. The strategic plan includes objectives and the planned means to both meet those objectives and measure success. The goals are usually academic performance goals, financial goals and plans for school grounds and buildings. The strategic plan usually covers several years. Instructions Write down goals for the school in a brainstorming session. Number the goals from the most important to the least pressing or important. For example, if the high school is overcrowded, building a new high school might be the highest goal while something like raising language arts grades might be last. Write an introduction discussing these goals. Specify how your school will achieve them. point out any needed changes, like cutting the budg...

To local school officials, taxpayers in a community share much in common with stakeholders in a publicly traded company. The proof is that superintendents and boards of education spend months and even years designing strategic plans for education that serve almost the same functions as a company's annual financial reports. These educational road maps portray officials' vision for the schools' future while presenting strategies to improve results, objectives to realize goals and key indicators to measure performance. Instructions Brainstorm a list of goals for improving student achievement. Arrange goals in order of importance to the district at large. For example, the first goal might be to boost the high school graduation rate. The last goal might be to revamp language arts instruction at one of the elementary schools. Write an introduction summarizing those goals and expressing the district's educational vision. Refer to successes and shortcomings of prior strate...