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Summary
Summary
Virtually everyone -- parents, teachers, administrators, school boards, and students -- believes that schools must change for the 21st century. But which changes should occur, and whose values should be reflected? Many change initiatives have foundered on questions like these. Values-Based Strategic Planning: A Dynamic Approach for Schools offers a complete guide to rethinking the purpose of schools, involving every constituency, achieving real consensus, and planning for change that really happens. The tools and techniques in this book work not only in schools, but in any organization that must change, but isn't sure how.
Unlike other planning schemes, Values Based Strategic Planning involves everyone in the school, accounts for their fundamental beliefs about education, and is delightfully simple to operate. The entire process can be completed in one day, and the result is a strategic plan that reflects the school's priorities and has the wholehearted commitment of those who must put it into operation. You'll walk step-by-step through the process, start to finish. Learn how to solicit value statements and distill them into school-wide values that can be shared and acted upon; identify critical issues and draft a preliminary mission statement; discover the aspects of a school -- and each individual's role -- that should kept, changed, or innovated; prioritize the results, and build a plan specific enough to succeed. Values Based Strategic Planning has been
Table of Contents
Section 1 Values Based Strategic Planning: Why Plan? | |
Chapter 1 Who Needs to Plan? | p. 3 |
Introduction | p. 4 |
Schools as better places | p. 7 |
Deficit thinking | p. 9 |
Values and the people who make up schools | p. 11 |
People, not results | p. 13 |
A word about values | p. 13 |
Big picture and chalk-face planning in schools | p. 14 |
The leader's role | p. 17 |
About this approach | p. 17 |
Chapter 2 Strategic Planning | p. 21 |
A fear of planning | p. 21 |
Self-managing schools | p. 24 |
Strategic planning as a system requirement | p. 26 |
Strategic planning and school improvement | p. 27 |
Strategic planning | p. 30 |
Confronting the notion of strategic choice | p. 31 |
Strategic planning in schools | p. 39 |
Principles of effective strategic planning | p. 41 |
Summary | p. 49 |
Chapter 3 Strategic Planning and Organisational Redesign | p. 50 |
A fear of restructuring | p. 51 |
Restructuring in schools | p. 52 |
Reengineering in schools | p. 55 |
Rethinking in schools | p. 57 |
Summary | p. 59 |
Chapter 4 Leadership and Strategic Planning | p. 61 |
The leader's role in strategic planning | p. 62 |
Strategic planning and learning organistations | p. 63 |
A school is a human invention | p. 66 |
Strategic planning and the importance of people | p. 68 |
Reframing: A way of elevating understanding | p. 70 |
A new understanding of vision | p. 73 |
Summary | p. 77 |
Chapter 5 Strategic Thinking | p. 78 |
Strategic thinking | p. 80 |
The seven planning hexagons | p. 81 |
Strategic management tasks versus critical operating tasks | p. 85 |
Summary | p. 95 |
Chapter 6 Values | p. 97 |
Values and educational administration | p. 97 |
A cultural approach | p. 99 |
Defining values | p. 102 |
Values-driven schools | p. 105 |
Traditional organisational values | p. 107 |
Global issues: Whose values? | p. 110 |
Top-down imposition of values to drive change | p. 113 |
Shared values | p. 114 |
Esposued values | p. 116 |
What are values and how do they affect schools? | p. 119 |
Values and student socialisation | p. 122 |
School values and central requirements | p. 126 |
Summary | p. 130 |
Chapter 7 Comparing Strategic Planning Processes | p. 131 |
Introduction | p. 131 |
Traditional strategic planning processes | p. 132 |
A committees approach | p. 138 |
The values based strategic planning process | p. 142 |
Differences between planning approaches | p. 144 |
Section 2 Values Based Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide | |
Chapter 8 Values Based Strategic Planning | p. 151 |
Introduction | p. 151 |
How is planning carried out? | p. 152 |
A summary of the steps in the values-based process | p. 154 |
Step 1 Introduction | p. 158 |
Step 2 Values Scan | p. 164 |
Writing value statements | p. 165 |
Collating value statements | p. 168 |
Towards one set of values | p. 170 |
Step 3 Critical Issues | p. 174 |
Celebration point | p. 177 |
Step 4 Writing a Mission Statement | p. 178 |
Step 5 Keep, Change and Try | p. 183 |
Keep, change and try: As a client survey process | p. 189 |
Step 6 Collating and Prioritising Key Result Areas | p. 190 |
Step 7 Focus Sheets | p. 193 |
Performance indicator writing | p. 198 |
Step 8 Pulling It Together | p. 201 |
Step 9 Client Scan | p. 205 |
In conclusion | p. 212 |
References | p. 215 |
Index | p. 223 |