In leading a highly effective school, a quality planning process helps to drive and direct the main strategic business of the school. It is essential to achieving substantial, sustainable growth and improved learning performance. It is both capacity-building and future focused so as to deliver an impact which is transformative.
There are five key features which underpin the new approach to school planning:
- Identify 3 strategic directions
- Determine the purpose of each strategic direction
- Work collaboratively with students, staff, parents and community members to build the shared understandings, knowledge and skills required to achieve the educational practices necessary to bring about sustained growth
- Focus systematically on planning, involving regular monitoring and implementation of milestones and assessing its effectiveness.
- Recognise the changing conditions in schools and allow for adjustments to the plan's implementation to ensure it continues to reflect our school's scenario.