Strategic Planning and Institutional Effectiveness in Secondary and Senior Secondary Schools: A Systematic Review with Special Reference to India

Strategic Planning and Institutional Effectiveness in Secondary and Senior Secondary Schools: A Systematic Review with Special Reference to India Dr. Umed Kumari* Strategic planning has an important place in educational administration. It helps schools decide their priorities, plan the use of available resources, involve different stakeholders and review their progress. The present paper reviews Indian and international studies related to strategic planning and institutional effectiveness in secondary and senior secondary schools. The main areas covered are school development planning, leadership, stakeholder participation, use of resources, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The reviewed studies suggest that strategic planning works better when people concerned with the school take part in the process and when plans are based on actual needs and available resources. Indian studies have given attention to school leadership, School Development Plans, School Management and Development Committees, community participation and decentralized planning. The review also shows that there are limited Indian studies directly examining strategic planning along with different aspects of institutional effectiveness at the secondary and senior secondary levels. Strategic planning may therefore be viewed as an ongoing school process in which goals, resources, implementation, evaluation and improvement are closely connected. *Associate Professor (Education), Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University New Delhi 110016 India