Build and Monitor Your Strategic Plans
Take clear steps to monitor your district's performance and success
Strategic planning requires a deep dive into historical data, a collaborative effort between district and building-level administrators, stakeholders to assess current and historical performance, and a plan committed to equity. Hanover’s advisors direct leaders who are interested in developing a new strategic plan or refining their existing plan.
Need Data Point
Achieve organizational alignment, connect stakeholders to a purpose, and address areas for improvement
Promote Equity Within Your District
Our Equity Planning Framework provides a guide for talking about, assessing, and promoting equity within the district. Members receive a roadmap for how the district can purposefully include equity as a lens for strategic planning.
Identify The Needs Of Vulnerable Populations
Our Virtual Focus Groups engage a diverse group of stakeholders to help district leaders understand stakeholders’ perceptions of district performance and identify the needs of the most vulnerable populations in the district.
Identify Strategic Priorities
KPI Reporting examines districts’ strategic plans to identify common goals and metrics for setting and measuring strategic priorities and recommends KPIs the district should use to monitor progress toward its strategic goals.
Measure The Success Of Your Strategy
KPI Progress Monitoring analyzes student outcome data (such as academics, discipline) to identify areas in which the district will need to focus during the strategic planning cycle.
Prioritize Strategic Efforts
Our Strategic Planning Diagnostic gathers feedback from district and school leaders to help prioritize efforts across different strategic areas including District Leadership; Teaching and Learning; District Culture; and Recruiting and Operations.
Guide Stakeholders Through The Process
The Strategic Planning Toolkit includes guiding questions, sample templates, and important tools to guide stakeholders through each step of the strategic planning process, from setting achievable goals to developing a fully-formed plan.
Focus Strategic Vision Into Actionable Goal
The Strategic Planning Workshop is a guided session in which leaders conduct situational analysis and formulate goals and targets related to district priorities. District leaders will be able to focus action on the most important levers for improving performance.
The Strategic Planning Workshop is part of Hanover’s Advisory Services.
Red Clay Consolidated School District Uses Hanover’s Analysis to Explore the Labor Market
“Red Clay Consolidated School District recently completed a Labor Market Analysis with Hanover Research to explore the local and regional labor market. My Hanover team suggested this project because of their knowledge with our strategic plan and our goal to prepare our students for high-demand industries and occupations upon completion of their high school education. Our district team was extremely pleased and found the project informative in identifying industries in which we may focus our career and technical education programs. It is impressive how Hanover personalizes their support.”
– Gerri Marshall, Manager of Research & Evaluation
Why Saint Paul Public Schools is Partnering with Hanover Research
“When deciding to engage with Hanover, we were impressed by the library of materials that were timely and relevant for many of our current strategies. We are currently embarking on a strategic planning process, where we will develop outcomes, focus areas and initiatives based on the needs of our students and community. The information base will be essential as we make critical decisions that will impact our district for the next several years. With increased demands on data-based decisions that are relevant, effective and high-leverage, an external thought partner and research library is definitely a good investment.”
– Stacey Gray Akyea, Director, Department of Research, Evaluation and Assessment Staff; Saint Paul Public Schools
Why the Michigan Association of Superintendents and Administrators is Partnering with Hanover Research
“Hanover Research has a proven track record of success and a stellar reputation for the quality of their work. To help us meet our goals for the coming year, we want to use Hanover to present our data for an alternative certification grant renewal; we also plan to use the resource center to support our work on educator shortages. Our Horizon Leadership Academy helps ensure district leaders grow in their roles and finding opportunities to reduce the teacher shortages will have a dramatic impact on the districts. To others considering an external partner, take time to do your homework and listen to what others are saying about the quality of service!”
– Tina Kerr, Deputy Executive Director
