Strategic Planning

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Your strategic plan can be focused, and integrate multiple voices

A good strategic plan can take into account the diverse voices within your district or school. CES will develop and facilitate a planning process that is created and customized for your district, school, or initiative’s specific needs. Based on your needs, we’ll assemble an experienced team that has facilitated strategic planning in multiple schools and districts, urban and suburban, regional and rural; and brings to your project the expertise you need across disciplines.

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You may be:

Sunsetting your current district or school strategic plan, and building a new plan
Hoping to better align your district, school, and educator plans
Facing significant changes to your financial picture and needing an intentional plan to help you prioritize
Welcoming new leadership and developing a plan together
Seeking a strategic planning process that is inclusive and equitable, and aligns with your DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging) commitments
Seeking to develop a strategic plan for a specific initiative, like strengthening math education at the secondary level; improving articulation in academic rigor across grades 8-12; or revising the K-12 world languages program to align with state and national standards
Struggling to create annual implementation plans that make progress toward strategic goals

We can support you in:

Choosing a framework for strategic planning; for example, Planning for Success, with which our consultants have extensive experience
Hosting and facilitating leadership and staff retreats
Coaching leadership through an effective planning process
Helping you to align plans at all levels within your district
Developing data-informed recommendations
Supporting you to create logic models and theories of action/change
Providing thoughtful, equity-informed program evaluation
Researching effective practices to achieve your goals
Helping you to build community commitment to your plan
Creating a framework for monitoring your district or school progress toward goals

Our Team Members

CES will assemble an expert team based on the needs of your project. We can draw from specialists in evaluation, ELE, special education and inclusive practices, social justice in education, technology, early childhood, and across content areas. Below are some of our team leaders.