Planning & Implementation

Strategic Planning is a critical component of an effective initiative, whether formulating a yearly action plan for an organization, designing or revising an instructional intervention, or developing a product to foster innovative teaching.

At Griffin Center, we strive to align the interests of diverse stakeholders in creating inspiring, value-driven plans that identify and prioritize the work of an organization and/or its program staff, are easy to understand and are designed for immediate use. Too often, overly detailed plans lay untouched in an office file—a situation we work to avoid through matching planning processes and tools with the specific needs of each group. The resulting plans provide vision and direction while being flexible enough to allow a response to changing circumstances and opportunities as they develop.

Griffin Center planning consultants include former teachers who are specially trained in strategic planning and meeting facilitation techniques suitable for both educational and non-profit environments. While mindful of retaining neutrality during planning meetings, our consultants’ extensive experience in the field of education brings an added dimension of expertise to the process. Once planning is completed, Center staff often continue to collaborate with clients to assist in ensuring projects are implemented with fidelity and meet the expectations of participants, program administrators and funders.

Our consultants have helped numerous groups with planning and implementation projects in recent years, including those completed prior to joining the Center. Former and current planning clients include:

Organizations

California Alliance for Arts Education, Pasadena, CA
Dramatic Results, Long Beach, CA
Inspired Instruction, Denver, CO

Government Agencies

Alameda County Office of Education, Hayward, CA
Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Los Angeles, CA
Santa Clara County Office of Education, San Jose, CA

 

Schools Districts

ABC Unified School District, Cerritos, CA
Alameda Unified School District, Alameda, CA
Albany Unified School District, Albany, CA
Berkeley School Unified District, Berkeley, CA
Castaic Union School District, Valencia CA
Dublin Unified School District, Dublin, CA
East Whittier City School District, Whittier, CA
Emery Unified School District, Emeryville, CA
Fremont Unified School District, Fremont, CA
Hayward Unified School District, Hayward, CA
Little Lake City School District, Santa Fe Springs, CA
Livermore Valley Joint School District, Livermore, CA
Montebello Unified School District, Montebello, CA
Mountain View School District, El Monte, CA
Palmdale School District, Palmdale, CA
Paramount Unified School District, Paramount, CA
Piedmont School Unified District, Piedmont, CA
Pleasanton Unified School District, Pleasanton, CA
Rocky Boy School District Head Start Teachers, Box Elder, MT
Temple City Unified School District, Temple City, CA