DISTRICT/SCHOOL STRATEGIC PLANNING TOOL
Secondary Transition Capacity-Building Conference
April 24, 2013
Marlborough, Massachusetts
This strategic planning tool is designed to be used in concert with your previously completed District/School Needs Assessment. It is a flexible
document which can assist your team to plan secondary transition improvement activities; please use it in the way seems most sensible to you.
You have three planning periods:
 Team working lunch, 11:55 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
 Team time, 1:35 – 2:05 p.m.
 Team time, 3:55 – 4:15 p.m.
Please find your team’s designated table on the handout in your folder.
Planning Tool Overview:
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Pages 6-10
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Space for notes on the plenary session presentations.
Dream Sheet: Record your team’s Big Ideas after the plenary session. What’s your vision?
Space for notes on the afternoon strands.
A planning overview, which can help you to see the big picture, from where you are now to what outcomes you hope to achieve. You
can use this from left to right, or from right to left (backwards design). Also, look ahead to the evaluation stage: how will you measure
change? Assumptions and External Factors are noted and should be kept in mind, because these always influence thoughts, feelings,
and practices.
Page five’s overview is broken out on each subsequent page, so that your team can plan together in a systematic and detailed way.
Use pages six through ten in forwards or backwards order. Start with your curent situation and move forward, or start with your
outcomes and work backwards. Whatever works for you.
How will you define, measure, and track success?
Thank you for attending the Secondary Transition Capacity-Building Conference! Please let us know how we can continue to assist you.
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NOTES
Introduction of the Massachusetts Student-Driven Secondary
Transition Model
Marcia Mittnacht, State Director of Special Education
Secondary Transition in Massachusetts
Amanda Green, Ellen Honeyman
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Keynote
Dr. Michael Wehmeyer, University of Kansas
Keynote
Dr. Thomas Hehir, Harvard University
DREAM SHEET
After the plenary, what are your team’s big ideas? What’s your vision?
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NOTES
Strand:
Best Practice Presentation [12:40 – 1:35 p.m.]
Strand:
District/School Presentation [3:00 – 3:55 p.m.]
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Strand:
District/School Presentation [2:05 – 3:00 p.m.]
Other:
SITUATION/
PRIORITIES
INPUTS/
RESOURCES
OUTPUTS/
ACTIVITIES
OUTPUTS/
PARTICIPATION
Where we are.
What we think we
should do first.
What we invest.
What we do.
Whom we reach.
OUTCOMES – IMPACT
FOR STUDENTS/FAMILIIES/PRACTITIONERS/SYSTEMS
Short Term
Medium Term
Long Term
EVALUATION
What products and
structures did we
change or create?
What did we
deliver? When?
ASSUMPTIONS
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How many
practitioners/
students/
stakeholders did
we reach? When?
INDIVIDUALS
Students: Improved outcomes in the
Transition domains?
Families: Improved partnerships?
Practitioners: Changed understanding,
practices, attitudes & behaviors,
increased capacity & collaboration?
EXTERNAL FACTORS
SYSTEMS
Are structures
sustainable?
Why? How?
SITUATION/PRIORITIES (See District/School Needs Assessment)
Where are we? What should we do first?
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INPUTS/RESOURCES
What time, expertise, funding, and other resources will we invest? Who else in the school/district/community may be supportive? How will we work
with our partners to build capacity?
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OUTPUTS/ACTIVITIES
What will we do?
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Who will do it? With
whom will we
collaborate?
How?
Where? (e.g., Which
Schools/Classrooms/Student
Populations/Afterschool &
Community Opportunities?)
By When?
OUTPUTS/PARTICIPATION
Whom will we reach?
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Systems
Practitioners
Families
Students
OUTCOMES/IMPACT - What will be the effect of our actions on students, families, practitioners, and systems, in the short, medium, and long term?
Short Term
Medium Term
Long Term
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EVALUATION – How will we know we have accomplished what we set out to do? How will we define, measure, and track success? How will we
incorporate this work into our continuous cycle of improvement?
What data will be
What is the source of
What is the data
Who will collect the
How will the data be
Who will analyze the
collected?
the data?
collection schedule?
data?
analyzed?
data?
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