During Phase 2, we would combine this stakeholder engagement with an analysis of the critical factors in the education landscape

• Scan for conditions, trends and assumptions about what’s coming in the future (locally and nationally)
• Identify those “big shifts” that are inevitable (e.g., AI)
• Based on this, forecast various scenarios and how they may influence the future of District 214 and education as a whole

Assumptions might include:

• Shifts in curriculum and instruction
• Technology innovation
• Local demographic shifts
• Local economic shifts
• Policy/governmental changes

We would then facilitate the district to define several components of the long-range vision, grounded in the “core ideology” and taking into account the critical factors

Adapted from: Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras