Strategic Planning

What is your school's strategic plan for the next five years?

If your schedule is like mine, you are busy with the daily requests of teachers, staff, parents, and students. These are important interactions, yet Christian school leaders cannot take our eyes off the long-term plan for our school.

When we developed our strategic plan, we took time to consider the strengths and weaknesses of our school. I gathered feedback from teachers, staff, alumni, parents, and the School Board, and I began the process of identifying key areas for growth in the next five years.

In the end, we identified seven areas:
1. Spiritual Health
2. Financial Strength
3. Academics
4. Faculty
5. School Board
6. Extra Curricular Activities
7. Facility

We set specific goals and measures of success. It has been exciting to watch as some of these strategic plans have been accomplished. We have also revised our strategic plan to better set our target for the years ahead.

If you do not have a strategic plan for your school, I encourage you to work on one right away. We have a public version on our school's website, and we have an internal version with many more details and measures of success.

I found the process of forming our strategic plan exciting and very helpful. Since the document has been in place, I have found it very helpful for setting my priorities and guiding strategic discussions of the School Board.