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This week, the MAAPS board approved the strategic plan for the association.
Over the next few years, MAAPS will expand its reach and its impact by building coalitions of providers, policy-makers and stakeholders with the shared goal of promoting awareness, policies, and practices to support schools in their efforts toward ensuring that every student with special needs realizes their potential.
The strategic plan as proposed
- will serve as a roadmap to clarify the association’s vision
- will establish consensus around meaningful objectives, and
- will guide resource allocation toward an aligned set of priorities.
The plan put forward for review by the board is articulated here as the three pillars:
- stakeholder advocacy
- transformative connections and
- organizational strength and longevity
which will move MAAPS toward fulfillment of the stated vision.
Under each of these pillars are sample goals and actions that have arisen through the strategic planning process. These goals are intended to illustrate the implementation of the pillars through general guiding principles and desired outcomes that should shape decision making in the next few years. These are further illustrated though, but not limited to, sample action steps that will help MAAPS advance these goals. Furthermore, MAAPS will leverage political and legal strategy, public relations, data, and research as key tools in this work.
Guided by consultant Alida Zweidler-McKay, at ZM Coach, over 40 participants from across regions were involved in the environmental scan and discovery process. Additional discovery included external interviews with key stakeholders review and summary of strategic plans from the past 20 years, review of comparable association and non-profit organization, and scan of New England states to identify needs, existing organizations and key stakeholders.
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