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Processes Not Plans Are the Key to Strategic Development

more commonly known as school improvement planning. This has resulted in high quality short-term planning taking place in most schools which has been given added urgency by the requirements of the new Ofsted framework. Linda Ellison and I put forward the view (Davies and Ellison 1999, 2003) that this short-term planning must also be set in the context of a strategic perspective and futures thinking. While attention is now moving to the strategic dimension the danger is to associate strategy with the mechanistic structures of the strategic planning approach. Headteachers repeat to me conversations