ABSTRACT

At the conclusion of a two day training session in the mid-west one of the participants asked a question that I had not been asked before. I was asked to sum up the most important aspects of the two days of training in several words. With just a moments hesitation I responded with: “systems thinking, key indicators of student success, databased decision making and root cause analysis.” While on the flight home I realized that these four concepts deserved their own chapter and would serve later as the much needed foundation for presenting my ideas in Chapter 6 on what I have come to call Dynamic Planning.