Strategic Planning

Creating strategic plans in a central office is only the first step. Education Direction shows you how make performance management systems, dashboards, scorecards, and key performance indicators relevant to classrooms, turning strategic planning into student learning.

Strategic plans, school improvement plans, dashboards, scorecards, and performance indicators are developed with the best of intentions. However, these plans and systems often fail to extend beyond the desks of those who drafted them to the classrooms, where change is required to improve student outcomes. Education Direction applies a variety of techniques, many of which come from Data Wise (2005, Harvard Education Press) and Data Wise in Action (2007, Harvard Education Press), and implements a course of action which translates the objectives into the improved learning leaders seek.

Policymakers and district and school leaders have the ability to shape children's learning on a daily basis, but they often need specialized guidance to transfer procedures proposed in administrative venues to programs which are relevant to the classroom. Education Direction's team has the training and educational experience--teaching, administrating, and policymaking--to effectively implement initiatives that improve instruction and increase student learning.

Engaging Education Direction will empower the schools in your jurisdiction to turn strategic plans, dashboards, and scorecards into action plans that will drive improvement in individual children in individual classrooms on a daily basis.