DISTRICT/SCHOOL STRATEGIC PLANNING TOOL

Secondary Transition Capacity-Building Conference

April 24, 2013

Marlborough, Massachusetts

This strategic planning tool is designed to be used in concert with your previously completed District/School Needs Assessment. It is a flexible document which can assist your team to plan secondary transition improvement activities; please use it in the way seems most sensible to you.

You have three planning periods:

  • Team working lunch, 11:55 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
  • Team time, 1:35 – 2:05 p.m.
  • Team time, 3:55 – 4:15 p.m.

Please find your team’s designated table on the handout in your folder.

Planning Tool Overview:

Page 2 / Space for notes on the plenary session presentations.
Page 3 / Dream Sheet: Record your team’s Big Ideas after the plenary session. What’s your vision?
Page 4 / Space for notes on the afternoon strands.
Page 5 / A planning overview, which can help you to see the big picture, from where you are now to what outcomes you hope to achieve. You can use this from left to right, or from right to left (backwards design). Also, look ahead to the evaluation stage: how will you measure change? Assumptions and External Factors are noted and should be kept in mind, because these always influence thoughts, feelings, and practices.
Pages 6-10 / Page five’s overview is broken out on each subsequent page, so that your team can plan together in a systematic and detailed way. Use pages six through ten in forwards or backwards order. Start with your curent situation and move forward, or start with your outcomes and work backwards. Whatever works for you.
Page 11 / How will you define, measure, and track success?

Thank you for attending the Secondary Transition Capacity-Building Conference! Please let us know how we can continue to assist you.

NOTES

Introduction of the Massachusetts Student-Driven Secondary Transition Model
Marcia Mittnacht, State Director of Special Education / Keynote
Dr. Michael Wehmeyer, University of Kansas
Secondary Transition in Massachusetts
Amanda Green, Ellen Honeyman / Keynote
Dr. Thomas Hehir, Harvard University

DREAM SHEET

After the plenary, what are your team’s big ideas? What’s your vision?

NOTES

Strand:
Best Practice Presentation [12:40 – 1:35 p.m.] / Strand:
District/School Presentation [2:05 – 3:00 p.m.]
Strand:
District/School Presentation[3:00 – 3:55 p.m.] / Other:
SITUATION/
PRIORITIES / INPUTS/
RESOURCES / OUTPUTS/
ACTIVITIES / OUTPUTS/
PARTICIPATION / / OUTCOMES – IMPACT FOR STUDENTS/FAMILIIES/PRACTITIONERS/SYSTEMS
Short Term / Medium Term / Long Term
Where we are.
What we think we should do first. / What we invest. / / What we do. / Whom we reach.
What products and structures did we change or create?
What did we deliver?When? / How many practitioners/ students/
stakeholders did we reach? When? / INDIVIDUALS
Students: Improved outcomes in the Transition domains?
Families: Improved partnerships?
Practitioners: Changed understanding, practices, attitudes & behaviors, increased capacity & collaboration? / SYSTEMS
Are structures sustainable? Why? How?
ASSUMPTIONS / EXTERNAL FACTORS

SITUATION/PRIORITIES (See District/School Needs Assessment)

Where are we? What should we do first?

INPUTS/RESOURCES

What time, expertise, funding, and other resourceswill we invest? Who else in the school/district/communitymay be supportive?How will we work with our partners to build capacity?

OUTPUTS/ACTIVITIES
What will we do? / Who will do it? With whom will we collaborate? / How? / Where? (e.g., Which Schools/Classrooms/Student Populations/Afterschool & Community Opportunities?) / By When?

OUTPUTS/PARTICIPATION

Whom will we reach?

OUTCOMES/IMPACT - What will be the effect of our actions on students, families, practitioners, and systems, in the short, medium, and long term?

Students / Short Term / Medium Term / Long Term
Families
Practitioners
Systems
EVALUATION – How will we know we have accomplished what we set out to do? How will we define, measure, and track success? How will we incorporate this work into our continuous cycle of improvement?
What data will be collected? / What is the source of the data? / What is the data collection schedule? / Who will collect the data? / How will the data be analyzed? / Who will analyze the data?

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