Informing school strategic planning and reporting
Self-review and development planning | The skills of effective goal setting | Recommended actions and initiatives | Leadspace
Self-review and development planning
Key questions
Where do we want to be?
Establish:
- the school's vision/intent and priorities, aims and objectives
- compliance requirements contained in the charter and legislation
- What the desired outcomes should be (A national assessment tool could help to do this. For example, asTTle or a NCEA standard)
Where are we now?
Identify:
- what actually happens and why
- what we do well
- what are our teachers' expectations of student performance in this area?
- what is the gap between the actual and the desired/ideal performance
- what we could do better in order to achieve our aims and objectives
- what we can change to make the school more effective in improving the learning of students
What do we need to focus on? How will we do it?
Decide:
- priorities and associated targets
- the nature of participation by stakeholders
Implement:
- the plans for improvement
Have we made the planned improvements?
Review:
- by on-going monitoring and reporting of action taken
- by evaluation against 'where we wanted to be'
- by recording and reporting outcomes and recommendations
Adapted from Otago Region School Trustees Association School improvement through self-review: A practical programme for boards of trustees.
The skills of effective goal setting
Schools and management teams which are good at goal setting seem to have the following characteristics:
- Clarity about the school's overall purpose and aspirations, expressed in intelligible language
- Good data (disaggregated, relevant, useful) both quantitative and qualitative
- Confidence and some skills in the analysis of statistical data, or knowing where to find and how to deploy such skills
- Awareness of what is within the extended grasp of the school, its teachers and its students
- Clarity about the available resources within a given time-frame ( i.e. time, energy, optimism and goodwill, money)
- Willingness and ability to prioritise, take some calculated risks and cope with a degree of uncertainty
- The patience to motivate and use the collective intelligence of the school and then the courage to take action with a consensus if unanimity is unachievable
- A 'culture' of target setting for all the school's learners – which means the staff as well as the students
Recommended actions and initiatives
An example of an action plan template
Action plans are completed based on identified needs and priorities of the self review
Select this link to open a Word version of the action plan template (Word 39KB) that can be used for informing school strategic planning and reporting.
On this website, there is further information on planning, reviewing and reporting (NAG2)
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