STRONGER SCHOOL COACHING · FOR PRINCIPALS AND BOARDS · 12 MONTHS
Strategic planning that gets implemented, and stays when the team resets.
Fewer plans on the shelf.
More years that build on years.
Twelve months of strategic planning and execution for the whole school, board included. We start by showing your board where it actually agrees and where it doesn’t, then build the plan, and then do it, together.
For the principal and the board chair. One conversation, no obligation.
Every school has the binder.
Somewhere in your building there’s a strategic plan. People worked hard on it. It had a retreat and a vote. And then the year happened, and the plan went on a shelf.
Plans shelve because the people who wrote them move on. A seat turns over, a new member arrives without the history, and a decision you already made gets reopened. The principal who led the process leaves, and the next one inherits a job description tightened against the last person’s mistakes.
Your board is the only group in the school positioned to look years ahead.
When it spends its meetings resetting and rehashing old decisions, nobody is looking at the future at all.
One engagement. Everything in it.
Your board’s maturity readout.
Every board member takes the maturity assessment. I facilitate the readout. The average is the less interesting half. The spread, where your members disagree with each other, is the finding, and it gives the board its own mandate for the work that follows.
Annual strategic planning meetings.
The board and the principal set the direction for the year ahead, checked against what last year actually produced.
Leadership coaching for the board chair and the principal.
Built around what each of them carries as they lead the plan.
Project reviews every two months.
Six check-ins a year on each strategic initiative. Drift gets caught while it’s still small.
An annual staff engagement assessment.
Your whole staff answers the same survey every year, so you can see how morale and culture are moving before you make decisions that depend on them.
The School Dashboard.
One screen your board and principal both read. It’s where the school keeps its own memory.
Does it work.
“His coaching has resulted in better efficiency, alignment, and decision-making across our organization.”
“I appreciate how Steven Barker is able to get to the root of the issues and then help create an attainable action plan with clear goals. Through his coaching, I became more aware of strengths and weaknesses in myself and our organization. This enabled me to articulate goals, unify my team, and strengthen delegation.”
S. Brinkman · Finance Manager
“Every time we talk I have clarity, I feel more calm, more focused, and I FEEL READY! I feel ready for success and know exactly what I’m doing next!”
Amanda R. · School Leader
“Every month the content is relevant and practical. I can immediately apply what I’m learning.”
Kayla W. · Education
Where we begin.
The principal and the board chair, one conversation. We decide together whether this is the right year.
I read the results and facilitate the readout, so the board sees its own picture before anyone proposes a plan.
Twelve months of planning and execution, with the principal and the board chair coached along the way.
The plan goes on the shelf, and your board spends next year reopening this year.
A plan that’s still running when the people who wrote it have moved on.
Start with one conversation.
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