STRATEGIC PLANNING
Build a great plan, lasting support and the capacity for future changes
When the Naperville Illinois School District wanted to create their strategic plan with community involvement, they called on The Axelrod Group. In a two-day planning process, hundreds of teachers, parents, students, community leaders, and concerned community members came together to develop a strategy for the district in the twenty-first century.
Not only did the group create a strategy that had the support of the community; they received an added bonus as well. Because of their participation, stakeholders increased their commitment to the school district. Five years later, when a bond referendum was on the ballot, participants in the strategic planning process came together and mounted a community effort to pass the bond issue in a state where sixty five percent of the bond issues fail. The school reached a new level of community participation, including having a local solar company install panels on the roof while teaching science classes about solar technologies. The school also won first for math and sixth for science in an international competition.
"Make strategic plans that people implement."