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Engaging Our Community

Building a Strategic Plan with Robust Stakeholder Involvement

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Strategic Plan Components

Values

Vision

Mission

Goals

Objectives

Strategies

Tactics

Stage One

Stage Three

Stage Two

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For Stage One, Stafford Schools strategically held community engagement events and stakeholder focus groups.

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Focus Group Activities

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Questions for Stakeholders to Consider Focused Around:

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  • Their Own Most Memorable and Usable Learning Experiences
  • Values – Personal, Perceived Organizational, and Ideal Organizational
  • Current Division Performance in Various Areas
  • Ideal Student Experiences, Ideal Graduate Skill Sets

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Intentional Focus Groups�

We led approximately 35 Focus Groups in order to include feedback from a wide range of stakeholder groups:

    • Educators
    • Administrators
    • Students
    • Parents
    • Faith Leaders
    • Business Leaders
    • Community Members
    • Elected Officials

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Qualitative Surveys

To ensure broader engagement across stakeholder groups, the division also pushed out a qualitative survey directly to various stakeholder groups:

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    • Parents
    • Staff
    • Students (Grades 6-12)
    • Broad Community (Generic Link)

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All surveys were readily accessible in 4 different languages.

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Through both approaches, we were able to capture feedback from more than 10,000 community members.

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Consolidating the Feedback

  • Through qualitative methodology we identified key themes.
  • We used the data to identify that:
    • the community had a number of areas of commonality
    • many of the concepts of the current strategic plan continued to be supported by the community, while also providing areas in which we can build and grow.

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Finalizing Stage One:�Incorporating Board Feedback to Finalize Values, Vision, and Mission

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Values

Current Values

Strategic Plan 2017

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Learners

Community

Excellence

Respect

Integrity

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Adopted Values

Strategic Plan 2022

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Students

Integrity

Respect

Community

Opportunity

Excellence

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Vision Statement

Current Vision Statement

Strategic Plan 2017

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Stafford County Public Schools is a dynamic, goal-oriented learning community committed to preparing our students for success in further education, work, and citizenship.

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Adopted Vision Statement

Strategic Plan 2022

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Prepared to excel.

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Mission Statement

Current Mission Statement

Strategic Plan 2017

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Inspire and empower all learners to thrive.

Adopted Mission Statement

Strategic Plan 2022

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Inspire and empower every student.

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Communicating the Path to #ElevateStafford

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1. Intentionally seeking to visually represent concepts.

E.g., the section header slides are designed to visually illustrate the concept of moving forward and upward as a division.

�2. Ensuring the Values, Vision, and Mission are memorable and reinforced throughout the division through posters, embedding on other communication tools.

E.g., redesign of SIP plan to align and reinforce values, vision and mission.

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3. Ensuring consistent language to reinforce concepts.

E.g., adopting the hashtag #ElevateStafford

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4. Planning a division-wide convocation, to fully engage and onboard staff to the updated strategic plan.�

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Remembering What is Essential

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Throughout the process, the focus groups, qualitative surveys, and school board work sessions have provided the opportunity for the division to remember what is most important in providing high quality educational experiences.

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Community members unanimously stressed the need to ensure students were engaged in real world experiences, building their C5W skills.