Strategy that usually arrives from above
In a large district, strategy is often written at the central office and handed to schools to carry out. Principals are asked to own a plan they had no hand in shaping.
A plan built with the people who carry it out
engage2learn’s Strategic Design process runs the other way: engage the community, design a shared vision for learning, plan with measures and owners, then lead the work. School leaders are in the room while the plan is designed, not handed it afterward.
Collective ownership, measured by students
A principal describes the result as building together rather than top-down, with one test for every decision: what it means for student success.
In their words.
“This is not top-down. It’s building together, collective ownership, and unity, looking at it from the perspective of student success. The endgame is the student.”
