Achieve Your District’s Goals
Take clear steps to build and monitor your district’s strategic plan
Strategic planning requires a deep dive into historical data as well as a collaborative effort between district and building level administrators and community members.
Hanover can help develop the right approach for your district. Our suite of research, tools, and expert guidance will assist you with everything from collecting community feedback, identifying measurable goals, planning and implementing targeted programs, and setting a roadmap for improvement.
Get the tools you need to build a strategic plan, create a roadmap for improvement, and monitor progress
Develop a Strategic Plan
Your Hanover advisory team will partner with you to achieve organizational coherence, sett attainable goals, support community engagement efforts, and create an action plan for continuous improvement.
Assess the current state of district performance
Hanover analyzes district data including student academic and behavioral outcomes, teacher retention, and district operations to identify the most pressing priorities to address in your strategic plan.
Identify Key Priority Areas
Through Hanover's Strategic Priorities Diagnostic Tool, we will help your district identify strategic priorities and create a roadmap for your strategic planning process.
Build consensus and achieve alignment
Hanover will facilitate focus groups with key community members, including board members, staff, students, and families, and will build a plan to engage them throughout the strategic planning process.
Turn your strategic plan into action
Hanover will help you successfully implement your strategic plan by breaking down your long-term strategic goals into specific, attainable actions over a particular time period, and ensure continuous improvement.
Communicate your new strategic plan to your board and external community members
Hanover's Strategic Planning Community Report provides you with a report and infographics to effectively communicate your strategic planning plan moving forward to your board or external community members.
Why Ceres Unified School District is Partnering with Hanover Research
“Over the last year or so, we’ve shifted our mindset from looking at teacher professional development as a one-way process to an actual learning process. Then March happened, and we went into crisis mode to help our teachers through our online platforms. We were able to provide some digital learning resources for teachers over the last few months, but as we started to prep for summer, we started to think about what we normally provide for our teachers, and how we can incentivize them to participate in professional learning and provide feedback.”
– Dr. Amy Peterman, Assistant Superintendent Educational Services
New Albany-Plain Local School District Assesses Students’ Social-Emotional Competencies
“We have really appreciated our partnership with Hanover, particularly in being able to do longitudinal work—we like being able to look at work from years ago to see school improvement shown through data-driven insights. The survey team has given us solid research that we can lean on to make informed decisions driven by what our community is showing and saying; we plan to use these survey results to see how we can best support our students in their social-emotional learning. We’ve done substance use, SEL, and staff climate surveys with Hanover, and have found that our partnership helps us be better at what we do.”
– Jon Hood, Director of Student Services, Safety & Security
Lake Forest Academy Creates Educational Outcome Index to Track Student Performance
“We have a mission to cultivate and embody our four pillars. There are some areas where we have identifiable performance metrics, like a student’s GPA, how many AP classes they are taking, etc.—but there was a call to find tangible metrics to demonstrate growth over time for areas like Character and Citizenship. Hanover’s survey instrument provided a subsection of questions and topics for each pillar, so being able to break down from the macro view to look at detailed insights let us examine if we were doing anything differently that led to our success, or if our students have a greater awareness of the things around them.”
– Chris Tennyson, Assistant Head of School, Dean of Students & Academic Affairs, and Mathematics Teacher
Ways to Partner
Hanover offers multiple ways to work with us. From one-on-one expert guidance and custom research to professional learning and on-demand resources, our goal is to customize our capabilities and support to best meet your needs.
Our research partnership provides you with a dedicated research team and a customized research plan that will deliver actionable insights and analysis.
- Best Practices
- Survey Design & Analysis
- Benchmarking
- Data Analytics
- Qualitative Research
Our Advisory Services include our research services in addition to personalized support from one of our advisors, interactive workshops, and group consultations.
- Capacity Building
- Implementation Support
- Interactive Workshops
- Group Consultation
The Educator Learning Center (ELC) is our online professional learning platform that makes teacher learning sustainable, useful, and convenient.
- Interactive Learning Modules
- Resource Library
- Discussion Boards
- Custom-Built Content
- Implementation Advisor
Our always-on resource that provides research, data, benchmarking, and implementation tools that you can access anytime and share across teams and departments.
- Online Research Library
- Implementation Tools
- Benchmarking Analytics
