The activity is designed to use as a next step once SDs are developed, works for any setting

NSW DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND COMMUNITIES WWW.DEC.NSW.GOV.AU

This PPT includes an activity titled “Post-it noting practices and products” (see slides 14-20 for methodology and images of process).

The activity is designed to use as a next step once SDs are developed, works for any setting.


Planning for 2015 and beyond – Tamworth Educational Services


Introducing the new school planning approach


Where does Educational Services fit?


Our Educational Services background 2015 - 2017

Team vision statement Team context Team planning processOur vision statement outlines the ethos and collective purpose of our Educational Services team.

What factors will influence the strategic improvements determined to support schools and our team?

The process we have followed to identify our strategic directions, key improvement measures and a page for each strategic direction including the purpose, people, processes, practices and products.


The DEC’s purpose – the “why”:

OUR PURPOSETO POSITON OUR PRINCIPALS AND COMMUNITIES TO MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS FOR THEIR SCHOOLS, ENSURING EACH STUDENT IN OUR CARE RECEIVES THE BEST LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVES THE BEST OUTCOMES POSSIBLE.


WHY? What’s our purpose as an Educational Services team?

What could our vision statement as an Educational Services team look like? Activity

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle

Success: when everyone in the organisation can say why we do what we do – the purpose

Successful leaders … all think, act and communicate from the inside.


The Department of Education and Communities

WE ARE DOING THIS BY:•Shaping our learning environments to meet the needs of every student through quality teaching and targeted local support•Delivering greater authority in decision making at principal and community level•Building workforce capacity through enhanced professional development.


As an Educational Services team, we are doing this by….

Think, pair share post it activity.


Each strategic direction •Defines the key improvements which combine to achieve excellence• Represents a high level and future-focussed educational priority which is evidence-based and data informed.•Is a succinct statement that drives the development of our educational and leadership culture.•(Makes explicit links to the dimension of the school excellence framework).

Strategic directions:


Raising expectations

and enhancing the quality of

student learning

Fostering quality

teaching and leadership

Achieving new and better

ways of doing business

DEC strategic directions

Purpose Purpose Purpose


Raising expectations

and enhancing the quality of

student learning

Fostering quality


Achieving new and better

ways of doing business

DEC strategic directions

Purpose Purpose Purpose

Every student in our care is engaged in meaningful and future focused learning experiences and achieves their full potential as a learner, a leader and a responsible and productive citizen.

Build workforce capacity through focused professional learning and development that creates a culture for Public Schools NSW in which every staff member is engaged in ongoing, relevant and evidence-based learning and practice at an individual and collective level.

Enable all staff to demonstrate systems leadership and innovation within a culture of organisational improvement through a collaborative approach to decision making that is accountable, transparent and reflects local and systemic priorities.


To recap:


What does it look like:Practices- What are our newly embedded practices and how are they integrated and in sync with our purpose?Products- What is achieved and how do we know?

The new school plan – a walk through has further information


Activity Post-it noting practices and products

• What practices and products will result from your work over the next three years? 1. Record each on a separate post-it note2. Post notes under the three strategic directions.


Our executive’s sharing analysis of strategic direction 1


Activity Post-it, noting products and practices

In groups, review practices and products and comment on:Their placement under a particular strategic directionThe synergies and differences across your work areaDuplications?Suggested groupingsAny items needing to be moved to another strategic

directionReport back to the whole group.




Activity Post-it noting practices and products

Choose a few examples of practices and products and reflect on why we believe they are important for us to achieve.

Reflect on the challenges we might face in delivering these products and practices.

One person from group, report back with a single statement beginning, “When we successfully deliver the practices and products that support strategic direction X, two important changes we will see are…..”




Some of the detail (strategic direction 2)


Raising expectations and

enhancing the quality of student

learning

Fostering quality


Achieving new and

better ways of doing business


detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/high-performance/high-performance/20152017-school-planning-the-new-approach

Resources include: •School excellence in NSW Public Schools – message from the Relieving Deputy Secretary•The new school plan – templates A (the new school plan –planning template) and B (implementation and monitoring)•Introducing the new school planning approach video•Introducing the new school planning approach – PowerPoint with facilitator notes.•The new school plan – a guide for school principals and leaders. This paper introduces the new approach to the school planning approach and the details of the planning process.•The new school plan – a walk through. An information sheet describing the details of the new plan based on the template layout.•The new school plan – Preparing your community. A two page overview of working with your school community to plan for the new school planning process.•The new school plan – Frequently asked questions.

Want more information?


Where to next?

• A working party will take on board feedback from Educational Services staff across our team

• Expressions of interest to either Xxx or xxx by (date)


‘Those children that parents send us, are the only ones they have. They don’t have

another reserve set at home, to send us if we make a mistake with the first set’ Hank Levin

Professor of Education at Columbia University

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The activity is designed to use as a next step once SDs are developed, works for any setting