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Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning is the Focus of Board Retreat
The Gould Board of Trustees and Leadership Team met for a retreat focused on strategic planning. Greenwich Leadership Partners hosted the online session. Agenda items included:
Leading up to the session, participants were assigned the following readings:
Back
Framing for the Meeting/Taking Stock - Our objectives/agenda
Adaptive Boards and Strategy
-Role of the Board in Strategy
-Testing assumptions
-The partnership work of the Board and Head
Adaptive Boards and Strategy
-Role of the Board in Strategy
-Testing assumptions
-The partnership work of the Board and Head
Developing Vision: A Structured Dialogue with the Head of School
Moving From Here to There: An Agenda for the Future
Moving From Here to There: An Agenda for the Future
Leading up to the session, participants were assigned the following readings:
- “Authors Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine on What the Best HS Classrooms Have in Common — Mastery, Identity & Creativity”: this interview explores the conditions and approaches shared by high performing schools.
- “The Four Questions to Ask When Serving on a Nonprofit Board” this Mckinsey article focuses on the essential work of governance.
- Can You Say What Your Strategy Is: this article from HBR distills the truth of strategy -- as a challenge to be able to clearly say where you are headed and to be able to articulate the tradeoffs and choices you will make to get there.
- Optional: the first 41 pages of Creating Schools That Thrive
Private High School for Boys and Girls | Grades 9-12, Postgraduate and Winter Term for Grades 7-8 | Boarding School in the Mountains of Maine
Gould Academy guides students to be creative, courageous and resilient and to lead lives of fulfillment and purpose.
Gould Academy guides students to be creative, courageous and resilient and to lead lives of fulfillment and purpose.
