The activity is designed to use as a next step once SDs are developed, works for any setting.

1. The activity is designed to use as a next step once SDs are developed, works for any setting. This PPT includes an activity titled “Post-it noting practices and products” (see slides 14-20 for methodology and images of process).

2. Planning for 2015 and beyond – Tamworth Educational Services

3. Introducing the new school planning approach

4. Where does Educational Services fit?

6. The DEC’s purpose – the “why”: OUR PURPOSE TO POSITON OUR PRINCIPALS AND COMMUNITIES TO MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS FOR THEIR SCHOOLS, ENSURING EACH STUDENT IN OUR CARE RECEIVES THE BEST LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVES THE BEST OUTCOMES POSSIBLE.

7. WHY? What’s our purpose as an Educational Services team? What could our vision statement as an Educational Services team look like? Activity Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle Success: when everyone in the organisation can say why we do what we do – the purpose Successful leaders … all think, act and communicate from the inside.

8. The Department of Education and Communities • WE ARE DOING THIS BY: • Shaping our learning environments to meet the needs of every student through quality teaching and targeted local support • Delivering greater authority in decision making at principal and community level • Building workforce capacity through enhanced professional development.

9. As an Educational Services team, we are doing this by….Think, pair share post it activity.

10. Strategic directions: • Each strategic direction • Defines the key improvements which combine to achieve excellence • Represents a high level and future-focussed educational priority which is evidence-based and data informed. • Is a succinct statement that drives the development of our educational and leadership culture. • (Makes explicit links to the dimension of the school excellence framework).

11. Fostering quality teaching and leadership DEC strategic directions Achieving new and better ways of doing business Raising expectations and enhancing the quality of student learning

12. Fostering quality teaching and leadership DEC strategic directions Achieving new and better ways of doing business Raising expectations and enhancing the quality of student learning

13. To recap:

14. What does it look like: Practices - What are our newly embedded practices and how are they integrated and in sync with our purpose? Products - What is achieved and how do we know? The new school plan – a walk through has further information

15. Activity Post-it noting practices and products • What practices and products will result from your work over the next three years? 1. Record each on a separate post-it note 2. Post notes under the three strategic directions.

16. Our executive’s sharing analysis of strategic direction 1

17. Activity Post-it, noting products and practices In groups, review practices and products and comment on: • Their placement under a particular strategic direction • The synergies and differences across your work area • Duplications? • Suggested groupings • Any items needing to be moved to another strategic direction • Report back to the whole group.

18. Our executive’s sharing analysis of strategic direction 2

19. Activity Post-it noting practices and products Choose a few examples of practices and products and reflect on why we believe they are important for us to achieve. Reflect on the challenges we might face in delivering these products and practices. One person from group, report back with a single statement beginning, “When we successfully deliver the practices and products that support strategic direction X, two important changes we will see are…..”

20. Our executive’s sharing analysis of strategic direction 3

21. Some of the detail (strategic direction 2)

22. Raising expectations and enhancing the quality of student learning Fostering quality teaching and leadership Achieving new and better ways of doing business

23. Want more information? detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/high-performance/high-performance/20152017-school-planning-the-new-approach Resources include: • School excellence in NSW Public Schools – message from the Relieving Deputy Secretary • The new school plan – templates A (the new school plan –planning template) and B (implementation and monitoring) • Introducing the new school planning approach video • Introducing the new school planning approach – PowerPoint with facilitator notes. • The new school plan – a guide for school principals and leaders. This paper introduces the new approach to the school planning approach and the details of the planning process. • The new school plan – a walk through. An information sheet describing the details of the new plan based on the template layout. • The new school plan – Preparing your community. A two page overview of working with your school community to plan for the new school planning process. • The new school plan – Frequently asked questions.

24. Where to next? • A working party will take on board feedback from Educational Services staff across our team • Expressions of interest to either Xxx or xxx by (date)

25. ‘Those children that parents send us, are the only ones they have. They don’t have another reserve set at home, to send us if we make a mistake with the first set’ Hank Levin Professor of Education at Columbia University