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What is Strategic Planning For Independent Schools about?

This manual is intended to serve independent schools beginning strategic planning methods. Chapter 1, "The Case for Strategic Planning," suggests replacing the term "long range planning" with the term "strategic planning," which emphasizes change. The strategic planning and policy development process begins with careful organization to ensure orderly progression: format and timetable, composition of the planning team, data to be assembled for the team's use. The process continues by concentrating the team's attention on external and internal issues before it begins to develop consensus on the mission and general goals of the school for the future. The process leads to a two-part result: the strategic plan, a conceptual report to the school's board recommending a series of goals for policy, which provides the basis for the operating plan, sometimes also called an action or implementation plan. The process is much like strategic planning for other kinds of organizations, except that it takes into account the nature of an independent school. It focuses widely on trends for the future as well as on what has happened in the past and what is happening now. It identifies why a school exi

Author

Susan C. Stone

Publisher

Publication Sales, National Association of Independent Schools, 18 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108 ($10.00)

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780934338585