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Carmelita Thompson and William Allan Kritsonis, PhD 

 

Introduction

 The Ways of Knowing Through the Realms of Meaning (Kritsonis, 2007) offers a pragmatic framework to strategic planning that will move educational organizations in innovative directions.  In developing a strategic plan, an educational organization must implement Dr. Kritsonis’ (2007) six fundamental patterns of meaning designated respectively as symbolics, empirics, esthetics, synnoetics, ethics, and synoptics.  Strategic planning is the process in which an educational organization determines its current status, envisions its long-term goals, makes projections for the future, and develops strategies to achieve those future aspirations.  Strategic planning must be flexible and practical and yet serve as a guide to implement programs to evaluate the educational organizations progress.  A strategic plan intertwining the six fundamental patterns of the Ways of Knowing Through the Realms of Meaning (Kritsonis, 2007) constructs innovative analytical and critical thinking that will improve and enhance the performance of educational organizations.

  Purpose of the Article

             The purpose of this article is to discuss ways in which strategic planning implemented by utilizing the Ways of Knowing Through the Realms of Meaning (Kritsonis, 2007) creates a high performing educational organization.  Skilled strategic planning makes a current assessment of needs, develops the educational organization’s future thinking, builds commitment, and serves as the guiding document for the educational organization.  Effective strategic planning includes articulating the educational organization’s vision, mission, and values to set a course for future aspirations.

 

The First Realm:  Symbolics

The first realm of meaning is symbolics.  Dr. Kritsonis (2007) states that ordinary language such as gestures, rituals, and rhythmic patterns allow people to communicate on a personal level.  Effective leadership is the cornerstone of an educational environment.  Eaker and Gonzalez write about learning leaders.

They create systems and processes to engage collaborative teams of teachers in 1) clarifying the essential knowledge and skills students are to acquire for every course, grade level and unit of every instruction 2) developing frequent common assessments to monitor each student’s learning on a timely basis, and 3) implementing a school-wide plan of intervention to guarantee students receive additional time and support for learning as soon as they experience difficulty. (Eaker & Gonzalez, 2007, p. 6)

The leader’s ability to articulate the educational organization’s vision, mission, and values to propel the organization into its preferred future is essential.  A vision statement is a description upon which the organization aspires.  It emphasizes where the educational organization will be at a specific time in the future. The organizational mission  supports  the  vision and  it  describes the  purpose of  the  organization.  The organizational values  state the organization’s  intentions and  the organization’s  core priorities in the organization’s culture. 

Implementing the strategic plan requires the use of symbolics. The vision must be clearly communicated within the educational organization.  The vision needs to capture the present status of the educational organization, and serve to guide the direction of the organization. As a means of setting a central goal that the educational organization will aspire to reach, the vision helps to provide a focus for the mission of the organization.  The vision should resonate with every member of the educational organization. The educational organization must clearly communicate its expectations so that members are able to perform effectively.  The strategic planning is effective when it energizes and engages the educational organization. 

 The Second Realm:  Empirics

The second realm of meaning is empirics.  Empirics encompass facts and discovering the truth.  Dr. Kritsonis says, “These sciences provide factual descriptions, generalizations, and theoretical formulations and explanations that are based upon observation and experimentation in the world of matter, life, mind, and society” (Kritsonis, 2007, p. 12).  According to Dr. Kritsonis (2007), science is concerned with matters of fact and facts refer to data of observation.  Educational data collection is vital for strategic planning in educational organizations.

Strategic planning, with an emphasis on empirics, provides an understanding of the design of the educational organization’s assessment of needs, finances, and it allows the organization to set specific data-driven priorities.  The educational organization is obligated to be data driven to aide accountability within the organization.  It is essential to the strategic planning of an educational organization to conduct a continuum of critical analysis of the system, policy formulation and appraisal, management and monitoring, and evaluation.  Gathering data and analysis of the current situation of the organization and the critical issues pertaining to the organization’s status and functioning is required in an educational organization. The  strategic planning process requires a multi-method approach in gathering comprehensive data. These multi-method approaches include standardized testing,  observation, surveys, interviews, document collection, and other formal and informal measures of organizational status. Findings and remedial options are formulated to provide policy orientations.  As the system is analyzed, future direction can be established.  Specific programs may be developed or resources may be mobilized based upon the information obtained through the data analysis.  A continuum of monitoring, review, and analysis takes places.  The learning leadership understands that the organization must continually change (Eaker & Gonzalez, 2007).  The more data educational organizations collect, the more effectively the organization can improve.  Assessment is required to constantly improve the strategic planning and ensure the execution of the educational organization’s vision. 

 

The Third Realm:  Esthetics

Dr. Kritsonis says that health means wholeness which may be regarded as personal wholeness (2007).

  The educational organization needs to include the arts in its strategic plan.  It is imperative that educational organizations make meaningful connections across academic disciplines and everyday life.  The arts can reinforce skills that connect learning to the real world.  The additional positive effects of art education on student learning include attendance, communication, and critical thinking.  Art education also requires discipline and skill which carries over into the community.  A study conducted by Allen, Edmonson, and Fisher (2009) revealed art to benefit students’ verbal and linguistic skills.  Allen, Edmonson, and Fisher’s findings were that he nature of fine arts classes was to help students better demonstrate ideas, feelings, and emotions through expressive use of their body and creative skills.  This training could be beneficial to students in the form of written expression through TAKS writing and also help students in the reading portion of the TAKS. (Allen, Edmonson, & Fisher, 2009, p. 47)

  The Fourth Realm:  Synnoetic

Dr. Kritsonis describes synnoetics as “…meanings in which a person has direct insight into other beings (or oneself) as concrete wholes existing in relation”  (Kritsonis, 2007, p. 393).   Synnoetics can easily be ascribed to strategic planning.  It is imperative that an educational organization understand its present position to understand its future aspirations.  Critical analyses of the educational organization’s internal and external environments provide information to assess the organization’s current needs and needs for future planning.  The heart of strategic planning is flexibility and ongoing evaluation of both the strategic plan and the planning process to ensure the organization’s success.  Dr. Kritsonis clearly states, “A person is a being who both remembers and anticipates.  He is related not only to himself as present, but also as past and as future” (Kritsonis, 2007, p. 397).  This statement can be applied to the educational organization as well.  The educational organization must have knowledge of itself to provide the best educational opportunities today, tomorrow, and into the future.  The educational organization must gain a historical perspective to determine how previous perceptions influenced current initiatives.  The educational organization must also understand the external environment, the global market, to meet the needs of students and prepare them for global challenges.

  

The Fifth Realm:  Ethics

              The fifth realm is ethics.  According to Dr. Kritsonis, “The essence of ethical meanings, or of moral knowledge, is right deliberate action, that is, what a person out to voluntarily do” (2007, p. 443).  An educational organization must incorporate ethics in its strategic planning.  The educational organization must establish policies or codes of conduct.  Steven Bowman (2008) explains that the best way to describe ethics is by utilizing the following four words: rights, obligations, fairness and integrity. He goes on to say that these words have energies underlying them that seem to get at the basis of ethical considerations.

Ethical standards are important to ensure that the educational organization operates within the law and is viewed by the public as an ethical organization of learning.  Codes of ethics within educational organization are necessary for promoting ethical teaching practices.  The educational organizational must conduct a continuum of evaluation to promote ethical standards within the organization.  Ethics provide justification for the actions that occur within the organization.  Ethics provide the base upon which the vision, mission, and values are created. 

Some other important ethical codes that are addressed in educational organizations are honesty, integrity, and respect.  These beliefs are the very foundation of culture and civilization.  The educational organizations must encourage students to collaborate across disciplines and learn the viewpoints and contributions of others. This combination of depth in learning fosters critical thinking skills, creativity, integrity, responsibility, and ethics.

 

The Sixth Realm:  Synoptics

            Synoptics is the sixth realm.  Dr. Kritsonis says this about synoptics, “This term comprises meanings having an integrative function, uniting meanings from all realms into a unified perspective that is, providing a “single vision” on “synopsis” of meanings” (2007, p. 483).  Dr. Kritsonis relates that history is concerned with the understanding of past events.   The historian must describe, order, and interpret events (2007).  Understanding the past of the educational organization is a basic premise for strategic planning.  By reviewing the organization’s history, the strategic planning builds upon past accomplishments or failures to broaden the organization’s reach.  This type of planning builds a bold and aggressive educational organization to keep pace with social, economic, and demographic trends with proactive performance measures that gauge organizational success.

The educational organization’s strategic planning method should include a thorough analysis of the organization’s history and current situation.  The educational organization must review important milestones to determine their influences on the organization.  Effective strategic planning requires the educational organization to visualize the organization’s future status by looking back at its past history.  It is necessary for educational organizations to be committed to being more responsive to society.  Educational organizations are obligated to provide educational services required by present and future citizens to make the contributions needed to sustain society.  The educational organization will meet these obligations by properly utilizing resources provided by taxpayers. Although Miech is skeptical about strategic planning in education, he writes, “Strategic planning can also play an important public relations role in education. For example, strategic planning in education can help improve school-community relations by involving parents and community members in the formal strategic planning process” (Miech, 1995, section 8).  The strategic plan can bridge the gap between the schools and the community.  The strategic plan also includes the educational organizations commitment to providing access to a broad range of educational services.

 

Concluding Remarks

In conclusion, education is a focal point for American society today.  The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, signed into law by President Bush in 2002, is a reauthorization of the Elementary  and  Secondary  Education  Act (Education Week, 2004).  The No Child Left Behind Act has expanded the federal government’s role in education.  This came about because of the wide concern about the state of education.  This legislation is expected to target every public school in America.  At the core of the No Child Left Behind Act are a number of provisions designed to ensure broad gains in student achievement and to hold states and schools more accountable for student progress (Education Week, 2004).

The need for effective strategic planning is critical for all educational organizations.  The constant challenges in education and pressures of student achievement will be guided by a well-developed strategic plan that serves as an integral part of day-to-day leadership and future aspirations in educational organizations.  Dr. Kritsonis’ Ways of Knowing Through the Realms of Meaning (2007) provides a pragmatic framework that connects strategic planning to the six realms of meaning.  The six realms provide the foundations for strategic planning that will be vision, mission, and value driven which will create a successful educational organization.  The strategic planning aligns the organization with the environment and explores perspectives and cultures from around the globe to achieve long-term stability.  Strategic planning is an ongoing process. Strategic planning in an educational organization will provide a framework to support high-quality, student-focused education.

  

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Dr. William Allan Kritsonis has served as a superintendent of schools, principal, teacher, director of field experiences and student teaching, university professor, editor, publisher, invited guest lecturer at the Oxford Round Table in the United of Oxford, United Kingdom.

  

 

 

 Since 1983, over 4,200 scholarly articles have been published by National FORUM Journals

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The Lally School of Management & Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has announced the launch of its new full time, one year MBA Program. Patterned after global MBA programs that are the norm outside the U.S., the new 51-credit hour program replaces the school’s previous 2-year MBA degree program. A new Pathfinder MBA Option for qualifying students is available for recent undergraduates, and replaces the previous Pathfinder MBA program.

 

The new MBA program was developed by a senior faculty committee comprised of Lally Dean David A. Gautschi, Dr. Jeffrey F. Durgee, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Associate Professor of Marketing, Dr. Iftekhar Hasan, Cary L. Wellington Professor of Finance, and Dr. T. Ravichandran, Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management.

 

The new program reflects the growing trend toward accelerated and specialized master’s programs in management education. The demand for intensive, shorter MBA programs, already growing, has only increased during the current economic downturn. According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey of accelerated MBA programs he Journal reports that only about 90 accredited schools worldwide offer accelerated MBA formats, with many of them only recently adding the option. The majority of current programs are outside the U.S., and international focus is a large draw for many students.

 

Lally’s introduction of the new program culminates a year of introducing new, focused Master’s programs. Building on its new, interdisciplinary MS programs in Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship (TC&E) and Financial Engineering and Risk Analytics (FERA) launched within the last year, Lally’s new intensive MBA program not only offers students an accelerated way to boost their careers, but also reflects the globalization of technology management and the global demand for MBA degrees.

 

The new program enables students to complete an MBA degree in as little as one year by streamlining elective requirements and offering coursework through the summer and semester intercession periods. All MBA Students take 10 required CORE Courses, a choice of 2 “Flex Core” courses, and 5 electives for a total of 51 credits. The new “Flex-Core” option allows students to explore a number of topics in-depth, and electives permit students to focus their training in one of five concentrations: Technological Entrepreneurship, Finance, Information Systems-Operations Management, Marketing-New Product Development, and Global Enterprise Management. Another new feature to the program is the Community Service Practicum course, where MBA students work in teams with faculty advisors to help local small organizations and promote regional economic development.

 

The accelerated program will continue to teach Lally’s signature integrated MBA curriculum, which emphasizes the connections between functional business areas, preparing students for real world situations where they will work on teams across business functions such as finance, operations, research & development and marketing.

 

MBA students can choose from four different program options, ranging from 12 to 24 months, and a wide variety of curricular options to build a customized degree program. For those looking for accelerated training, with a minimum disruption of their career path and maximum value, the 12 month option is the most intensive and shortest degree program. For students who want to gain more work experience or to change careers, internship and specialization modules can be added to create an MBA tailored for each student’s needs and career goals. Customized programs can be completed within 17 to 24 months.

 

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The Lally School of Management & Technology was founded in 1963 as an integral part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, America’s oldest technological university. Building on Rensselaer’s world-class facilities and leadership in science and engineering, Lally is dedicated to advancing business through innovation. Lally offers graduate, doctoral and undergraduate degree programs in management, and an executive MBA program. Lally’s programs focus on the strategic management of technology and creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship. Located in New York’s Tech Valley, Lally offers a growing portfolio of collaborative programs with enterprises and academic institutions in the Indian sub-continent, China, Europe, and the Middle East.

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An online curriculum ensures the exchange of educational material on the Internet. The development of features of the Internet have the relationship between teacher and students more strongly than in the past to do. Online courses are a way of training without compromising your family or work to obtain.