Planning & Management

Scenario Planning

Scenario Planning is a method to prepare for a range of plausible futures based on a set of different “uncertainties.” This video provides an overview of scenario planning and outlines an eight step process to create a set of scenarios to use in responding to an immediate crisis as well as for long term planning.

Tools for Success in Disruptions: Immediate Recovery and an Opportunity for Change

This document helps Regional Comprehensive Center, and state and local education agencies think through both urgent and long-term needs and strategies to reform systems as they recover from operational disruptions, such as COVID-19. Annotated lists of resources and key discussion questions are provided to probe thinking, support planning, and encourage users to improve overall systems and structures as a result of the disruption. The authors include links to a handful of companion tools that users can incorporate into their work recovering and moving forward.

Better Together: A Coordinated Response for Principals and District Leaders

It is no secret that successful school leadership starts with the principal. District leadership must prioritize the needs of principals who in turn, will empower the school-based crisis response teams to address the needs of the school community. This brief provides readers with a structured approach to manage the social-emotional well-being of the adults in the school building, post COVID-19 closures. The phrase, “better together,” has never been truer as school communities embark on the uncharted territory of virtual, hybrid and/or physical re-entry after an extended school closure.

After Action Review Guide

An After-Action Review (AAR) is a process that creates an environment for a team to analyze a situation and review what worked, what didn’t work, and what can be done to improve moving forward. This guide includes the basic questioning protocol for an AAR.

Strategic Budgeting: Using Evidence to Mitigate the COVID Slide and Move Toward Improvement

This resource is designed to guide state education agencies and local education agencies through a process which aligns agency priorities, policies, and financial allocation based on evidence of student need and program effectiveness. This guide is also set up to help agencies prioritize and make trade-off decisions based on available evidence.
Sep 11, 2020

Using Strategic Performance Management

The Arkansas Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), is now comprised of the Arkansas Department of Education, Arkansas Better Chance Program, higher education, and Career & Technical Education. The DESE will be evolving into SPM 2.0 practices as they reorganize and continue to implement disciplined performance management routines agency-wide. 

Topics Pre 2020
Planning & Management
Project Status
Ongoing
Center
Region 14 Comprehensive Center
Grant Cycle Year
1
Grant Cycle
2020-2027
Associated States
Arkansas

Strategic Performance Management

This project provides resources and strategies to help state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) implement strategic performance management.

Topics Pre 2020
Planning & Management
Project Status
Ongoing
National Center - Summary Description

This project helps state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) use strategic performance management (SPM) to better organize their people and work.

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This project helps state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) use strategic performance management (SPM) to better organize their people and work.

Center
National Comprehensive Center
National Center - Alt Project Name
Promoting Strategic Performance Management
Import Key
190
Grant Cycle Year
1
Grant Cycle
2020-2027
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Associated States
Arkansas
Hawaii
Kansas
Missouri
U. S. Virgin Islands

RMI: Planning, Performance & Effectiveness

This project will use structural and functional analysis, the retooling of policies and procedures, technology, professional learning and improved data use to strengthen the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Ministry of Education’s (MOE) and Public School System’s (PSS) productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Topics Pre 2020
Planning & Management
Project Status
Ongoing
Center
Region 19 Comprehensive Center
Import Key
186
Grant Cycle Year
1
Grant Cycle
2020-2027
Associated States
Marshall Islands

American Samoa: Needs Assessment, Strategic Planning and Performance Management

This project will build capacity of the American Samoa Department of Education (ASDOE) to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment, strategic planning, strategic performance management, and program evaluation.

Topics Pre 2020
Planning & Management
Project Status
Ongoing
Center
Region 19 Comprehensive Center
Import Key
183
Grant Cycle Year
1
Grant Cycle
2020-2027
Associated States
American Samoa
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