strategic plan: summary overview board of education – cigr

Strategic Plan:Summary Overview

Board of Education – CIGR Committee

December 3, 2009

Strategic Plan

Agenda

• Definitions• Vision, Mission, Values• Purpose• Process• Goals, Strategies, and Tactics• Execution• Conclusion

Strategic Plan – Definitions

Strategy - Plans and means through which organizations accomplish a mission and objectives.

Strategic Planning - an organization’s process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.

Tactics/Policies - Actions taken to implement strategies.

Strategic Plan – Vision

Our Vision

Every child is a work of art. Create a

masterpiece.

At the core of our strategic plan is the belief that our work is about every child. Every child brings a wealth of talent and potential to us. We must embrace that talent and potential and equip every student with an education that draws forth the masterpiece that lies within each of them.

Strategic Plan – Mission

Our Mission

The mission of the Rochester City School District is to provide a world-class education that prepares every student to achieve and to succeed intellectually and socially. We will achieve this through collaborative leadership, engaging learning, and a focus on results.

Strategic Plan – Values

Our Core Values:

Based on our belief that every child can succeed. Every child can become a masterpiece.

Achievement - Improving student achievement through a laser-like focus on teaching and learning with an emphasis on results

Equity - Distributing resources equitably based on the needs of schools and students

Accountability - Using data to ensure that we hold adults accountable for the success of all students

Strategic Plan – Purpose

It is about the work of our schools:

• Empowering school-based decisions

• Every child has an opportunity to succeed

• World-class performance

• Move from compliance to performance

• Data-driven decision making

• Accountability for performance

• Incentives for achievement


It is about creating an agile, flexible, responsive organization:

• Responsive to the needs of the student

• Focused on the school and the student as the customer

• Continuous improvement methods to improve service and efficiency

• Smaller, leaner, more responsive central office organization

• Customer-driven decisions

• Flipping the traditional pyramid


The Plan, a Tool for Change:

• To articulate our strategy, actions, and initiatives clearly and consistently so we share a common understanding of our goals and priorities

• To serve as a tool for senior leadership and staff in making decisions about long- and short-term resource allocations


The Plan, a Tool for Change:

• More than “shelfware” -- a part of our everyday work

Should answer the following questions for leaders and staff:

• What should I be working on to ensure student success?

• What is every other person in the district working on to ensure student success?

• How can we work together to drive student success?

• What is the big picture of the framework for reform and how does my work and everyone else’s fit into that framework?


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Laser Focus on Student Success:

Central Office Culture:

• Focused on student success

• Smaller and leaner

• Responsive

Schools:

• Empowered to make decisions

• Autonomy as a motivator

• Innovative, dynamic leaders

• Strategic use of resources

• Accountable for student success

Strategic Plan – Process

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• Plan spans period from 2008 to 2013

• The result of a nearly two years of internal and external conversations

• Guided by our Core Values of Achievement, Equity, and Accountability, the Plan serves as a roadmap for our work through 2013


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Strategic Planning Process:

As we developed the plan, we focused on several key questions:

• Where we are today?

• Where do we need to be to ensure student success?

• How do we get there?

• How do we hold ourselves accountable for student success?


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Strategic Planning Process - Engagement:

Stakeholder Engagement: • Critical ongoing phase throughout plan development

• Key activities:

• Focus groups

• Individual meetings with Board of Education, students, parents, teachers, other district staff, community and business partners, higher education

• Stakeholder survey (online) – more than 1,300 responses


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Online Survey, Sample Comments:

• “Student achievement is of the highest priority; schools need the tools to assist students in reaching their full potential.”

• “Research and utilize the practices of other successful districts and use the honest feedback provided to you by students, parents, staff, etc.”

• “Highly qualified adults, given adequate resources and safe school environments, can produce superb results with children.”

• “Work towards accountability at all levels from the top down.”

• “The focus of all decisions should be what is best, overall, for the child.”


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Performance Indicators and Measures Development

• Senior leaders took the lead; engaged CGR in the process

• Disciplined process: reviewed prior trends, considered impact of new strategies, and developed metrics/targets for each of the 5 years

• Worked hard to have a logical rationale and/or projections that are as realistic as possible – feasible yet challenging


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Strategic Planning Process – Key Phases:

• Review of Current State• Data on performance outcomes• Engaging with stakeholders to discuss current state

• Vision and Mission Development• Senior leadership retreat dedicated to strategic plan and outcomes• Input from stakeholders during focus group sessions, online survey• CGR engaged in the process

• Strategy, Goal & Objective Development• Research on best practices/strategies from other districts including interviews and reviews of their strategic plans, strategies, and outcomes• Refinement through stakeholder engagement and input

Strategic Plan – Goals

Five Strategic Goals:

1.Ensure that each of our students is academically prepared to succeed in college, life, and the global economy.

2.Create safe, engaging and nurturing school environments that enable student success.

3.Recruit, develop, and retain highly effective, diverse people dedicated to student success.

Strategic Plan – Goals

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Five Strategic Goals:

4. Use world-class operational standards and practices to continuously improve how we support student success.

5. Create a culture in which we hold ourselves accountable for student success.

Strategic Plan – Strategies and Tactics

Two Strategies:

1.Proactively manage and support performance to empower schools

2.Create an organization and culture that is agile, flexible, and responsive to schools and students.

Two Overarching Tactics:

1. Continuous improvement 2. Data-based decision making

Strategic Plan – Execution

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Three Strategic Levers:

1. Organizational Structure – how is the organization

structured to best deliver results.

2. Management Controls – necessary as we monitor

results, make adjustments.

3. Incentives – school autonomy as an incentive for optimal performance.


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Strategic Collaboration:

• District Staff – gaining understanding and commitment to strategies

• Center for Governmental Research (CGR) – external performance measurement and monitoring

• Community

• Parents• Churches• Businesses• Others


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Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program as a Framework for Change:

Criteria built upon interrelatedvalues and concepts:

■ Visionary leadership■ Learning-centered education■ Organizational and personal learning■ Valuing faculty, staff, and partners■ Agility■ Focus on the future■ Managing for innovation■ Management by fact■ Social responsibility■ Focus on results and creating value■ Systems perspective

Strategic Plan – Conclusion

Every child is a work of art. Create a masterpiece.

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