Futuring Tools for Strategic Quality Planning in Education

Written in simple language with easy to follow procedures, this book contains a set of tried and proven futuring tools. Educators can use these tools to more effectively plan for their organization's future and exercise control over achieving that preferred future. The authors provide a holistic as well as systematic approach to futuring using these seven practical tools and how they can be applied to the strategic planning process.

This book is designed to help educators creat a vision, analyze the vision for its probability of occuring, and to establish critical pathways to reach that vision. Each of the seven futuring tools are explained, along with step-by-step procedures on how and where to use them. As a result, educators will be able to develop an understanding of the terminology, timelines, and types of planning used in creating and developing the strategic quality future of an organization.