2005 VSBA Strategic Planning Service

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2005 VSBA Strategic Planning Service

• Provided by
• Vermont School Boards Association

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Planning Components

• Identify Goals for Planning
• Explore Planning Options
• Review Current Research Best Practice
• Identify Key Opinion Leaders Stakeholders

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Two Planning Options

• Option 1 - Traditional Community Forum Process
• Option 2 Roles Responsibilities Focus Group
  Version

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Option 1 Traditional Community Forum

• Meeting 1 - Formulate Steering Com.
• Prepare Scope of Work Time Line
• Meeting 2-4 Plan for Community Forum
• Integrate all Action Strategic Plans

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Option 1 Traditional Community Forum

• Meeting 5 Host Community Forum
• Meeting 6 Review Forum Feedback Data
• Meeting 7 Develop Mission Statement

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Option 1 Traditional Community Forum

• Meeting 8 Conduct Cause Effect Priority
  Exercise
• Meeting 9 Develop premise statements
• Meetings 10-14 Define mission, premises, goals
  objectives

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Option 1 Traditional Community Forum

• Meeting 15 Use samples to create draft plan
• Meeting 16 Committee prepare final draft
  strategic plan
• Meeting 17 Present plan to the Board

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Option 2 Roles Responsibilities

• Meeting 1 Identify Steering Committee
• Meeting 2 Create Planning Process Climate
• Internal and External Communication Processes
• Prepare for Community Focus Groups
• Meeting 3 Surface, Examine, and Agree on
  Education Assumptions

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Option 2 Roles Responsibilities

• Meetings 4-8 Community Focus Groups
• Parents, Business Town Leaders, Others
• Clarify and Affirm Assumptions
• Are they right? What are we missing?
• Meeting 9 Explore and Identify Functions
• Meeting 10 Define Expectations

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Option 2 Roles Responsibilities

• Meeting 11 Define Name Stakeholder Groups
  (Entities)
• Meeting 12 Identify Levels of Roles and
  Responsibilities
• Meeting 13 Identify Develop Organizational
  Trust

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Option 2 Roles Responsibilities

• Meeting 14 Establish Priorities
• Meetings 1519 Create Action Plan
• Governance solutions
• Centralize functions
• Improve learning opportunities
• Cost containment

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Option 2 Roles Responsibilities

• Meeting 20 Indicators of Progress
• Meeting 21 Create Implementation
• Plan and Evaluation Process

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Option 2 Roles Responsibilities

• Meeting 22 Wrap Up
• Meeting 23 Present Completed Plan to the School
  Board

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Time Line

• Both Processes Will Take Approx. 1 Year to
  Complete
• Option 1 More driven by external feedback
• Option 2 Concentrates on internal roles
  clarification

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Budget Benefits

• Option 1 Identifies School Community
  Priorities for Education
• Option 2 Creates Efficient Systems for High
  Level Job Performance

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Costs

• Option 1 5000
• Traditional Community Forum Process
• Option 2 8000
• Roles Responsibilities Focus Group Version

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For More Information Contact

• Winton Goodrich, Associate Director
• Vermont School Boards Association
• 2 Prospect Street, Suite 4
• Montpelier, Vermont 05602
• 802-793-5365 (cell)
• wgoodrich_at_vtvsba.org