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Strategic Planning
Update: As part of the District's strategic plan, each school community will create their own strategic plan aligned to the mission and objectives of the District plan. Each school will undertake the process within the next three years and your help will be needed. Please watch your school newsletter and this page for information on how you can participate when the first group of schools begin working on their plans in January of 2010.
By a unanimous vote, the San Juan Unified School District Board of Education adopted a five-year results-based strategic plan at a special meeting June 23 that also celebrated the six months, 12,000 combined hours, and dedication of more than 300 volunteers that went into developing the plan.
“If you don’t know where you’re headed you won’t know how you’re going to get there,” said parent Juan Yniguez. “The collaborative thinking between staff, students, parents, and community was a huge benefit. The strategic plan is what San Juan Unified needs to align the efforts going on in our schools each day to ensure that each student can and will learn.”
The strategic planning process began in January of 2009 when the 30-person Planning Team, composed of members representing the diverse stakeholder groups in the District, met for the first time. Using a consensus model of decision making, the group was able to reach 100 percent agreement on a list of core shared beliefs, a new mission representing the community’s loftiest aspirations for the District, objectives, strategic parameters that will guide implementation of the plan, and seven unique strategies designed to achieve the objectives and mission.
More than 280 volunteers then took over and met on Monday nights between February and May to design operational action plans for each of the seven strategies identified by the Planning Team. Participation on Action Teams was open to anyone who stepped forward and attracted students, parents, community members, teachers, staff, and administrators to be part of the groups. The Action Teams also used a consensus model of decision making that required everyone in the room agree before an item would become a part of the plan.
“At a time when much of public education is trapped in fiscal crisis, San Juan Unified’s Board of Education and community have chosen to focus on improving teaching and learning and creating better futures for our students,” said San Juan Unified Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi. “Our strategic plan will enable us to focus our limited resources and truly educate and inspire our students to succeed and contribute to the world around them.”
A similar planning process will be instituted at each of the District’s 70 schools in the next four years to create site-based plans that align to the District’s new strategic plan.
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