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Title: Plan to Plan: A primer for success


1
Plan to Plan A primer for success
  • Virginia Brennan-Kyro
  • MASA New Superintendents Conference
  • September 24, 2008

2
Assumptions
  • The 21st century is different
  • Kids are different
  • Learning is different
  • Teaching must be different
  • Schools must be different
  • For schools to be different, you must plan in a
    different way

3
Overview
  • Advantages of strategic planning
  • Key components
  • Where to begin
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Sustainability

4
You Know Youre a Superintendent When
  • You have a loud discussion in your car on the way
    home from workand you are alone
  • You get calls at home from board members and
    parents who say they didnt want to bother you at
    work

5
You Know Youre a Superintendent When
  • You feel guilty about going to a movie, then you
    realize its Saturday night
  • You realize your hourly rate is less than that of
    an elementary principal

6
You Know Youre a Superintendent When
  • As the first snowflake falls, everyone reminds
    you that a BIG SNOWSTORM is coming
    tonight
  • You spend more time talking to the school board
    attorney than to your spouse

7
  • A leader's job is to look into the future and
    see the organization, not as it is, but
    as it should be." 

8
Why strategic planning?
  • Its expected
  • It provides an opportunity to demonstrate
    leadership
  • It provides a collaborative process for
    initiating change

9
Why strategic planning?
  • If you dont know where youre going, youll
    end up someplace else.
  • --Yogi Berra

10
What are the advantages of strategic planning?
  • It provides a roadmap for the district
  • It focuses resources
  • It aligns mission/vision with the budget process

11
Advantages
  • It celebrates the districts uniqueness
  • It develops common purpose
  • It promotes transparency

12
Where do you begin?
  • Prepare for planning
  • Confirm commitment and readiness
  • Conduct a basic awareness session

13
Where do you begin?
  • Communicate about planning
  • Build a planning team
  • Collect vital signs information

14
What are the key components of strategic planning?
  • Beliefs
  • Vision
  • Mission
  • Goals
  • Strategies
  • Action Plans
  • Include specific results
  • Cost-benefit analysis

15
Who should be on your planning team?
  • Superintendent
  • Teachers
  • Administrators
  • Board Members
  • Staff
  • Parents
  • Community Members
  • Students

16
What are some of the pitfalls to avoid?
  • Simple majority vote
  • Allowing one or two personalities to dominate the
    sessions
  • Ignoring crucial issues
  • Non-implementation of the plan

17
How do you ensure sustainability?
  • Conduct periodic reviews
  • Complete annual updates to advance the plan
  • Incorporate accountability and specificity
  • Ensure that the plan remains a priority

18
In order to succeed, your desire for success
should be greater than your fear of
failure. --Bill Cosby
19
Superintendentisms
  • Know yourself be yourself
  • Keep the main thingthe main thing
  • Under-promiseover-deliver
  • Celebrate successes

20
Superintendentisms
  • Find a mentor
  • Network, network, and network
  • Communicate, communicate, and communicate
  • Keep a sense of humor

21
  • Leaders are visionaries with a poorly
    developed sense of fear and no concept of the
    odds against them.
  • --Dr. Robert Jarvik
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