Declining Enrollment: Strategic Planning for School Districts

This workshop brings together superintendents, business managers, and instructional leaders to explore statewide budget impacts and population trends, and engage in planning for future enrollment projections. Through collaboration with peers from districts of different sizes, participants will consider strategies for programming, staffing, and financial planning, and leave with practical tools and protocols to guide decision-making in their own districts. 

Preparing for declining enrollment: financially and programmatically - 

• Strategically planning for it
• Working together to create programming (stop replicating opportunities)
• Identify programming that is likely to be cut - will you allow students to drive the decisions or workforce to make the decisions?

What will be covered -

• State and Federal Budget
• Population Trends
• Implication of Timelines & Data Information
• Job Alike Roundtables

What to bring -

• Team
• Enrollment projections (at least five years)
• High school department - student course registration numbers

Audience: K-12 Senior Leadership -

• Superintendent
• Business Manager
• Director of Teaching & Learning

Guest Speakers:

Sarah Kemp - Applied Population Lab

Anne Chapman - WASBO