Why the Five Stages of Strategic Academic Planning Are Critical to Success
Without a strategic academic plan, your school is vulnerable to losing its direction. How confident are you in your approach?
- What do you do if teachers or students complain that your curriculum is stale?
- How does your current academic approach prepare students for the real world?
- What do you do to increase confidence that your school has a unified academic approach?
The answer to all of these questions: the strategic academic plan (SAP). The SAP is a guidepost or north star for what your school hopes to achieve when it comes to learning. Without this plan, your school is much more likely to lose its direction—losing direction whenever a new leader takes a role or a fresh idea gains momentum in the community.
Essentially, without a strategic academic plan, you’re a ship without a map, drifting along, hoping you’ll find your destination. Probably not the best approach.
ISM highly recommends every school create a strategic academic plan to define its goals and address the role of curriculum, pedagogy, students, and faculty in achieving these goals. A sound plan requires five key development phases to ensure it’s designed effectively and will create measurable change.
Join us to explore these five phases—what they are, who to involve, and how to get started. If you aren’t sure your school has a plan or that your plan is effective, this webinar is for you.