Aspire2Lead services include strategic plan and charter development (that complies with Ministry of Education guidelines), and school wide self-reviews that could be across a range of contexts e.g. curriculum, organisational structure, senior leadership team effectiveness, sports, Education Outside the Classroom. Any strategic development is based on:

                                                                 

 

A significant influence to strategic planning derives from the work of Dr Leoni Degenhardt.  Degenhardt talks about the need for schools to change to reflect 21st century contexts, and has developed a 12 step recipe for reinventing schooling, which can provide the initial framework for strategic planning:

•  start with purpose
• identify and articulate the school's values
• engage with the external context
•  include everybody
• dream of how it could be
•  develop a shared paradigm
•  lead appropriately
•  manage change and micropolitics
• provide professional development
•  adapt structures and architecture
•  evaluate constantly
• develop a continually reinventing culture

The following diagram illustrates these contexts for change:     




 

Although the strategic planning process can be adapted to meet particular needs and contexts within schools, after considering aspects of Degenhardt's 12 step recipe, a 5 step approach can also be considered. Click here to access.