Bring the Guidebook Experience to Your Team / Strategic planning
Strategic planning
A plan holds up better when the people it affects help write it. For schools, public agencies, nonprofits, and networks, we bring those people together, look at what is happening on the ground, and leave you with a 1-3-6 month action plan your leadership can adopt.
How it runs
1. Intro call
We talk through your plan, your timeline, and who needs to be in the room. You get a written scope and cost.
Book a call2. Participant-led site visit and data gathering
The people closest to the work show us around, tell us what they see, and sit down with leadership. In a school, that means youth lead the tour and join a roundtable with adults. Everyone records what they see and hear on a shared data gathering tool.
See the network3. Real to Ideal
We start with what is real. Using the Compassionate Witnessing protocol, people share what they have seen and lived while others listen. Then the group names where it wants to be.
Listen to stories from the Guidebook4. 1-3-6 month action plan
The team plans backward and decides what happens in one, three, and six months, and who is responsible. We send you a written summary that carries into a strategic plan, board plan, school improvement plan, or LCAP.
Talk with us about your planWhat you leave with
- A 1-3-6 month action plan, with a name next to each step
- A written summary of what we saw and heard, and the priorities that came out of it
- A data gathering tool your team can keep using
What it stands on
- As a Sacramento Redistricting Commissioner, Nicodemus Ford helped lead a public process that drew more than 60,000 comments and produced new city council maps
- He is a certified coach with the National School Reform Faculty
- The site visit process comes from the Rural Professional Learning Network, across eight districts and four county offices
- Other partners include the California Department of Justice, Yuba Water Agency, and the City of Davis
Tell us about your plan
A one-hour call, no commitment. Not ready for that? Join a free session on Zoom.
Other Guidebook workshops: Capacity building, Restorative workplace, School climate and MTSS
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