ACSA adopted a new Strategic Plan in July 2018 that lays out some exciting goals to drive the association toward continuous improvement, enable it to serve members better, and strengthen its position as an education system leader. While assembling this comprehensive plan was a lot of work for our collective team, the result is a plan that is both by our members and for our members.

While a significant portion of the implementation work is taking place at the ACSA state level, we will only fully realize the aspirations envisioned by this plan by working in close collaboration and coordination with all stakeholders on all levels of the association. This is so important that the plan directs ACSA to establish a process to identify shared State, Region and Charter goals and complimentary roles in achieving them.

ACSA Bylaws and Board-approved Policies & Procedures call for every Region to formulate a plan outlining the group's purpose, goals, events/activities, and evaluation methods at beginning of the year. Region leaders are asked to assure that the Region's work aligns with goals articulated in the plan to maximize our collective efforts. In the spirit of making this easier for Regions, ACSA has created templates to use in identifying the Region’s strategic focus for the year. These templates list both the First and Second-Year Focus Milestones from which Regions can choose several that resonate and dovetail with their priorities.

Hosting templates on this Google site provides a forum to facilitate idea sharing and collaboration among Regions, since we can all see the Region work in progress. ACSA’s also created a logo button Regions can use to link the finalized template to their home pages for all members to see when they are finalized. Region Strategic Focus documents (Annual Planning Templates link below) are due and should be posted to Region website by October 1, 2019.

Next May Regions will be asked to both plan for the upcoming year AND assess their progress the prior year in supporting Milestones they identified for work. This Annual Reporting Template will due by August 31 each year beginning in 2020.

To support Regions in this work, ACSA will host discussions centered on shared goals during Leadership Assembly and the annual Leadership Training each May to help Regions, Charters, Committees, Councils and other stakeholder groups to identify how they can engage in the plan and how their activities can support plan Milestones. Region leaders are encouraged to use this foundational work to facilitate conversations at their summer planning retreats, which will assist in completing the Region Strategic Focus (Annual Planning Template).

In addition, several additional resources have been created to make stakeholder discussions easier, including a video introducing the Strategic Plan , a brochure highlighting the plan, the plan in its entirety, and presentation slides. These resources and more are featured on the Strategic Plan Communications Toolkit webpage. The main ACSA Strategic Plan webpage features plan background as well.

Select your region or charter below and complete your region’s or charter's Strategic Focus.