
2025 Strategic Planning Initiative
We are excited to embark on a comprehensive Strategic Planning initiative that will guide the future of our schools and shape the educational experience for our students and families over the next decade and beyond.
Laying the Foundation
During the first half of the 2024-2025 school year, we spent time laying the foundation for this work by gathering feedback from staff, students, families, and the community through our community meetings, Coffee and Connect sessions, student surveys, and more.
Then, in December 2024, the GHAPS Board of Education approved a recommendation to move forward with a $75,000 consultation contract with strategic planning partner Thru Consulting. Thru Consulting is a pre-K-12 education management firm that will serve as an external consultant for us throughout our strategic planning process. Thru will help guide us through the visioning process, lead discussions with our Strategic Plan Working Group, conduct surveys, and more as we continue to develop a plan for the future of GHAPS based on staff, student, and community input.
Building the Team
Leaning on the guidance of our new strategic planning partners from Thru Consulting, we formed a Strategic Plan Working Group that provides valuable insights and serves as a sounding board that will help shape a long-term plan that reflects the needs and aspirations of our entire community as our strategic planning process moves forward.
Group members were selected carefully to ensure that all schools and grade levels are represented, a wide range of interests are included, and community-wide perspectives are considered as this important planning process moves forward. Many on this team have intersecting and overlapping roles as staff members, parents, and members of the community. Each of these unique roles and experiences represented within the team are going to help impact the conversations we will have over the next several months and, ultimately, help shape a plan for the future of our district.
Learn more about the Strategic Plan Working Group
Getting to Work
The Strategic Plan Working Group began its work in January 2025 by reviewing the high-level feedback our district received during the first few months of the school year. This included input from Superintendent Perkowski’s Coffee & Connect events, the staff and community Blank Canvas sessions, and student and staff surveys.
Looking Ahead
The group will continue to meet monthly to collaboratively work through this data in more depth, gather feedback and input from our colleagues and other stakeholders, and use it to inform strategies that will move our district forward.
As we continue to collect and analyze data, there will be more opportunities for surveys, superintendent engagement sessions, and focus groups. More information about these opportunities will be shared when it becomes available.
Those with feedback and ideas can feel free to share those with a Strategic Plan Working Group team member so they can bring them to our next meeting.
Submitting Questions
As we continue to collect and analyze data, there will be more opportunities for surveys, superintendent engagement sessions, and focus groups. However, if you have a question or comment you would like to submit for the Strategic Plan Working Group's consideration, please complete our questions and comments submission form.