The composition of a district’s Strategic Thinking/Planning Team is in transition as well as the process for developing a Strategic Plan for the future. Schlechty, an expert on school leadership, provided the following guiding principles for districts to keep at the forefront of their planning processes. In Shaking Up the School House he noted the following:
The pace of change in American society is far outstripping the capacity of schools to keep up…. For . . . leaders to do their jobs it is essential first to acknowledge that in spite of numerous waves of reform U.S. schools are not much different – either for good or ill – than they were fifty years ago. Certainly there have been changes, but for the most part they have been fragmented, episodic, multidirectional, and lacking in coordination and persistence.
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