A strategic plan for a Christian school is easy to describe and hard to write well. The published plans that hold up share a few traits: they name a clear horizon, they tie goals to student outcomes, and they read like an invitation rather than a compliance document....
Most Christian school strategic plans do not fail at the board table. They fail in the twelve months after it, when the document moves from the retreat folder to a shelf and the board goes back to reviewing budgets and enrollment numbers. The template is usually the...
A strategic plan often gets handed to the executive director, senior pastor, or head of school with an unspoken message: “Please make this happen.” That is understandable, but incomplete. Who leads strategic planning? The senior leader sponsors it, the board governs...
A board retreat that ends with a longer list than it started with. A head of school who knows the enrollment trend matters but cannot get the leadership team past next week’s schedule. A plan that was celebrated in May and has not been opened since. None of...
A leadership team can spend months discussing the same concerns and still leave every meeting with more to do than before. That is not a commitment problem. It is usually a clarity problem. This strategy workshop case study shows how a facilitated planning session can...
A strategic plan for a Christian school carries two jobs at once. It has to answer practical questions about enrollment, faculty, facilities, and program, and it has to do that work in a way that is recognizably faithful to the mission the school exists to serve....
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