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Strategic Planning Toolbox

This toolbox provides a range of resources and a template for creating your own effective strategic plan. Having a strong sense of direction and clear goals is key to creating momentum for professional learning and improvement.

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$90 per person *Included in Manger Club

This toolbox provides a range of tools, templates and thinking prompts to assist you to identify the most important priorities for the improvement of your ECE service that will be included in your strategic and annual plans. We have also included a number of exemplars and how to guides to support you to format your priorities in ways that create user friendly working documents that can be used to drive improvements in teaching and quality outcomes for children.

This toolbox is for you if;

You are in a position in your ECE service where you are responsible for developing Strategic plans.
You are looking for some guidance for creating an effective strategic plan that will meet current ERO & MOE expectations.
You want to feel confident and empowered to write an effective strategic plan.

About the presenter

Barbara Watson (PhD)

Barbara is a qualified early childhood and primary teacher and has owned and managed early childhood centres. Having worked as part of the EC Professional Support team at the Faculty of Education for 7 years, she has strong links with The University of Auckland. While in this role Barbara facilitated a variety of workshops and programmes for a wide range of ECE services and also lectured on a number of ECE papers.

Barbara has a passion for supporting teachers to make effective links between theory and practice. Her Masters thesis focused on leadership and adult education and her PhD investigated how induction and mentoring programmes are enacted in education and care services. Barbara works with centre leaders as a mentor, coach and external appraiser.

Thank you for the guide - it is not a topic we are really given examples we can adapt for our service and I have always felt unsure.

— Michele

I am grateful for this PLD. I now have a clear understanding of expectations and what a strategic plan could look like. Thank you.

— Renee

Gave me a greater understanding of annual planning and strategic planning, and how to incorperate NELP and Te Ara Poutama.

— Debbie

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Strategic Planning Toolbox