How to create an exciting new future for your college or school!
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How can my school or school district, my college or university, use the Education Catalyst™ (“EduCat™”) to build a better future? How can we deliver better education to more of our students, more satisfying careers to our faculties, make better use – of and be more responsive to – our boards? Can we efficiently involve all of our key stakeholders in helping create a truly transformational strategic plan? And how can we enlist the ongoing support of the participants in the planning process?
The Running Start Institute™ facilitates the unique software-supported Education Catalyst™ process to help educational institutions powerfully envision a collective future, create agreed-upon objectives, establish priorities, secure and allocate resources and achieve meaningful goals. We have been successful in helping develop and implement innovative and effective strategies for addressing major challenges.
The 7-step “EduCat™” guides you through creating a thoughtful, dynamic and broadly supported action plan. Every step leads your institution towards success:
- Create a Vision
- Brainstorm options and select Initiatives to accomplish the Vision
- Organize Initiatives into Objectives
- Prioritize Objectives
- Assess Stage of Accomplishment
- Interpret Constraints and Opportunities
- Build Action Plan
An Education Catalyst™ is much more than traditional strategic planning. Rather than forcing choices between competing ideas, it synthesizes group wisdom to create transformative ideas. It creates collaborations that open up new, unexpected and compelling possibilities.
Running Start Institute™ offers software, training, experienced facilitators to lead a 3-day strategic planning workshop, and ongoing consulting for successful implementation.
The Institute also invites educators to participate in our multi-variant longitudinal Research Study.