Create a practical, repeatable plan your leadership team can use to turn data into better decisions across a term.

Task

Create a plan that includes the following sections. Keep it clear and usable.

  1. Purpose and decision focus
    What decisions will this plan improve?

  2. Minimum viable dashboard
    6–10 indicators with definitions, owners, and review cycles.

  3. Pattern scan process
    The routine your teams will use to describe patterns neutrally.

  4. Diagnosis approach
    How you will generate and test hypotheses.

  5. Action selection approach
    Your decision checklist, success criteria, and decision rules.

  6. Implementation and monitoring
    Routines, owners, review dates, and how you will adjust.

  7. Communication plan
    What you will say to staff, and how you will report to families or the board.

Format

Choose one:

  • 1,200–1,800 words, or

  • 10–15 slides with speaker notes.

Create the document. Title it:
Capstone plan – [School/Campus] – [Your name]

Useful Rubric to Self Reflect

Criteria 1: clarity of purpose and decision focus

  • Exceeds: Decisions are explicit and tightly scoped.

  • Meets: Decisions are clear and mostly focused.

  • Developing: Decisions are broad or mixed.

  • Limited: Decisions are unclear.

Criteria 2: quality of measures and definitions

  • Exceeds: Indicators are few, defined, and decision-linked.

  • Meets: Indicators are appropriate and mostly well-defined.

  • Developing: Too many indicators or weak definitions.

  • Limited: Indicators do not link to decisions.

Criteria 3: strength of analysis and diagnosis

  • Exceeds: Pattern scan and hypotheses are rigorous and testable.

  • Meets: Pattern scan and hypotheses are clear and usable.

  • Developing: Hypotheses are vague or blame-based at times.

  • Limited: Diagnosis approach is missing or weak.

Criteria 4: feasibility of action and implementation

  • Exceeds: Actions are realistic, resourced, and monitored.

  • Meets: Actions are workable with clear owners and review points.

  • Developing: Actions lack routines or ownership detail.

  • Limited: Plan is aspirational with little follow-through design.

Criteria 5: communication and trust

  • Exceeds: Communication is clear, ethical, and trust-building.

  • Meets: Communication is clear and mostly consistent.

  • Developing: Communication is generic or risks misinterpretation.

  • Limited: Communication plan is missing.

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