Building the Foundation for Effective Strategic Planning: Understanding Your Current Reality

Program Overview

Strategic planning has become one of the most important - and most challenging - responsibilities facing today’s school and district leaders. In an educational landscape shaped by rapid change, competing priorities, increasing legal complexity, and evolving community expectations, districts need planning processes that are collaborative, practical, actionable, and capable of producing meaningful results.

This special virtual preview session, offered in partnership by TMI Education and NJPSA/FEA/LEGAL ONE, is designed to introduce educational leaders to the building blocks of strategic planning with a key focus on understanding how to gather, organize, and analyze the information YOU need to understand your current reality and inform meaningful strategic planning, including:

• The types of data and information districts should examine when identifying priority areas of focus

• How perception data, performance trends, stakeholder feedback, and program effectiveness measures contribute to informed decision-making

• The importance of stakeholder and community engagement in the strategic planning process

• How community values inventories and stakeholder surveys can help shape district direction and priorities

Leaders at all levels are invited to join us for this free, engaging session.

Recommended Audience

This program will benefit all Grades PK-12 educational leaders.

Registration Fees

There is NO COST for this program.

For more information, email support@tmieducation.com.

Program Organizer & Presenter

Richard Panicucci

Chief Executive Officer and SVP, Strategic Planning Division, The Madison Institute (d.b.a., TMI Education)

Throughout his nearly 35 years in education, Rich has served as a teacher, administrator, adjunct professor, and educational consultant, with deep expertise in pedagogical innovation and strategic visioning and planning. As a long-time central office administrator and Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, he has led numerous long-range strategic planning initiatives and the development and implementation of high-impact programs.

Rich has also designed and led partnerships with industry and local universities, resulting in the creation of innovative secondary dual enrollment programs that prepare students for emerging fields such as mechatronics and user experience (UX) design. In addition, he has authored several publications focused on inquiry-based instruction and professional learning.

Since TMI Education’s founding in 1999, Rich has served as Lead Consultant. In 2019, he was appointed Senior Vice President to lead TMI’s Strategic Visioning and Planning Division, where he played a pivotal role in advancing the organization’s growth and strengthening its reputation as a trusted, client-centered partner. In recognition of his leadership, accomplishments, and longstanding contributions, Rich was named CEO of TMI Education in 2024.