2024-2025 Strategic Planning Timeline (tentative)
DATE | GROUP |
Sept. 4, 2024 | Cabinet and communications director met via Zoom with two Teamworks team members via Zoom to chart the Strategic Planning process ahead. |
September and October 2024 | Identify and ask administrators, staff members, students, staff and families if they are willing to participate in the process. The Administrative Team was briefed on the strategic plan process by Cabinet. Letters sent to first groups of staff, students and families invited to participate in committees and focus groups. |
Oct. 2, 2024 | Staff focus group including Johnston High School, Ellipsis, Alternative High School and Drop-In School staff will meet to define their daily desired experience as a JCSD employee. |
Oct. 2, 2024 | Education Leadership System orientation, session 1. Meeting between the Cabinet, building administrators and the school board to outline the strategic planning process ahead. |
Oct. 15, 2024 | Staff focus group including Summit and JMS staff will meet to define their daily desired experience as a JCSD employee. |
Oct. 15, 2024 | Family focus group with Summit and JMS families will meet to define their daily desired experience as a JCSD family member. |
Oct. 15, 2024 | Family focus group with Johnston High School, Alternative High School and Drop-In School families will meet to define their daily desired experience as a JCSD family member. |
Nov. 18-19 2024 | Strategic Planning Team, Community Members and Staff meet to develop the storywall and lifecycle for the district, and do an environmental scan. |
Nov. 19, 2024 | Student focus group with Summit students will meet to define their daily desired experience as a JCSD student. |
Nov. 19, 2024 | Student focus group with Johnston Middle School students will meet to define their daily desired experience as a JCSD student. |
Nov. 19, 2024 | Student focus group from Johnston High School, Alternative High School and Drop-In School students will meet to define their daily desired experience as a JCSD student. |
Nov. 20, 2024 | Staff focus group with Johnston Early Learning Academy, elementary, and Johnston Therapeutic Program staff will meet to define their daily desired experience as a JCSD staff member. |
Nov. 20, 2024 | Family focus group with Johnston Early Learning Academy, elementary, and Johnston Therapeutic Program families will meet to define their daily desired experience as a JCSD family member. |
Dec. 17, 2024 | Strategic Planning Team looks at the feedback from focus groups of students, staff, and families about their desired daily experience (DDE) here in the Johnston Community School District. |
February 2025 TBD | Strategic Planning Team, department leads, Instructional Learning Team reps look at Classroom to Boardroom Process, Classroom Theory of Action, Desired Daily Experience, school and department data needs and analysis. |
March 2025 TBD | Begin developing district 3-year operational plan based on information gathered in the past five months. |
April 2025 TBD | Cabinet District Vision Card Design meeting |
April 2025 TBD | Strategic Roadmap Session. Cabinet and Strategic Planning Team refines district 3-year operational plan. Introduce District Vision Card concept. |
May 2025 TBD | Strategic Roadmap Session. Bring 3-year operational plan to school board to finalize. Work session or report, followed by action item at a board meeting. |
June 6, 2025 | 3-year Operational Plan, School and Department Improvement Plans |
June 2025 TBD | Strategic Planning “Owners’ Manual” and Implementation Action Steps |
June/July 2025 TBD | School board presented with 3-year operational plan for district and each school. |
June/July 2025 TBD | School board structures, practices and governance session |
June 2026 | One year follow-up on 3-year operational plan
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June 2027 | Two-year follow-up on 3-year operational plan
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