Agenda - 02-02-1987 - Special Mtg.

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VISIONS FOR THE NINETIES The Strategic Plan for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School System What should the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School System look like in the 1990's? To address the question, a broad-based strategic planning task force will be organized. The task force will be composed of teachers, parents, students, school administrators, school board members, and citizens representing a broad range of businesses and community leaders. The task force will be coordinated by the assistant superintendent for support services. The super- intendent will serve as an ex-officio member. The charge to the task force will be: 1. to conduct a status audit of the present program, in- cluding an assessment of strengths and weaknesses 2. to conduct a trend analysis, with particular attention on major economic, technological, political , demographic and other factors that are likely to have a significant impact on the school system 3. to develop a five-year plan of action Although the task force will oversee the overall strategic planning pro- cess and be responsible for the final document presented to the superintendent and Board of Education, it will be assisted in its role by action teams who will be given specific charges. For example, a planning team could be charged with conducting the trend analysis. The intent of having widespread and broad-based participation is to give more people ownership in the shared vision. Education is not an island unto itself. The education of youth is a community effort. The planning process will get underway this summer. The expectation is for a preliminary plan to be presented to the Board at its February 1988 conference. It will be the responsibility of the leadership team of the school system and Board of Education to convert strategic plans into operational plans. For example, based on the status audit and trend analysis, the task force might have as a strategy: "To respond to the needs of the non-traditional families and working parents." It would then become the responsibility of the staff to outline the action plans for addressing this strategy. Strategic planning should in no way be perceived as a criticism of the pre- sent school program. We have an excellent school system; however, a formal planning process allows us to prepare our students even better by depicting the trends that will affect their future and then responding to those.