Tools
- Strategic Business Plan and its relationship to Board activities and budgets
Case Studies
Relevant Reading
- The Strategic Process: 10 Steps for Planning Your Independent School's Future -- A brand new book from NAIS that walks you through strategic planning.
- Strategic Steps to Success -- From nais.org: This session walks you through the steps outlined in NAIS' new book The Strategic Process: 10 Steps for Planning Your Independent School's Future led by one of the book's co-authors and head who school has made the shift from traditional strategic planning to ongoing strategic thinking.
- The Board Profile's Cornerstone: Your Strategic Plan -- This ISM article argues that a strategic plan that clearly lays out the organization's critical priorities and program areas over the medium to long term is critical to effective Board profiling.
- The ISACS Model for Strategic Planning
- Strategic Planning for Independent Schools: The 8 step plan, by Patrick F. Bassett, NAIS President, is an outline for strategic planning and includes sample retreat schedules.

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