Abstract
Strategic planning is a broad topic which references a process, a product, and a paradigm. With historical ties to Frederick Taylor and John Dewey, its range of influence within education has been both widely heralded and deprecated by practitioners and scholars. Purposed to examine its utility, this practitioner-positioned chapter spans strategic planning’s rise to prominence, as well as its arguable resurgence as an accountability tool following No Child Left Behind legislation. The chapter includes a comparison between this rational-structural approach, which has changed minimally over essentially 100 years, and the strategic-systemic method known as professional learning communities, which has been in place in education for the past 30-40 years. Finally, this review concludes by engaging in open-ended conjecture concerning strategic planning’s future role in public education.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Pages | 677-696 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030990978 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783030990961 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2022 |
Keywords
- Accountability
- Buy in
- Capacity building
- Compliance
- Cultural conflict
- Inspiration
- Investment
- Social justice
- Strategic planning
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- General Social Sciences