Purple Tod Consulting

ATTACHMENT 4

METRO CENTRAL EDUCATION DISTRICT
CIRCUIT 6

SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING

LESSONS LEARNT
? Letters submitted to be signed by both principal and chairperson of the SGB
? One set of priorities to be “action planned” or “strategic planning”
? List of inventories and stock-registers
? Budget – no mention of salaries of staff paid by WCED
? Value (municipal) of grounds and buildings
? Value of stock/inventories
? Priorities/Needs analysis – separate operational imperatives from other developmental needs
? Risk analysis
? Identify the areas of risk to the organization
? Define your currently reality
? Define what you want to improve to reduce risk or exposure
? What will it costs (not always money) … “way up your options”
? Be forever mindful of your core function … but also your other functions (pastoral)
? Resource Management
? Physical resource
? Human resource
? Time as resource
? Fiscal (money)
? Policies & regulations
? Systems and Procedures

THE PROCESS
? What resource have you been given (provisioning)?
? What are the constraints/restrictions of the resource?
? How have you applied/made optimum use of the resource (effective)?
? Do you need more? … or … should you make better (efficient) use of the existing resource?

SDP 2009 is about
? Putting the systems and procedures in place
? Report on the implementation of the SDP & SIP

SDP 2010 will be about

? Quality Assurance of some of your systems and procedures

? Reporting on the implementation of the SDP