Purpose, Intention and specific desired Results
South Africa’s education system is complex, messy and dynamic. The Education Action Scorecard Project provides a process and method to make sense of it all and to be clear and confident about strategy and its implementation..
The Education Action Scorecard Project aims to encourage and enable stakeholders from government, labour, business and civil society to collaborate in building and managing a range of Education Action Scorecards that effectively:
- Define a guiding set of clear collective objectives.
- Show how key elements interact and interrelate with each other to form a system that needs to be managed as a whole.
- Highlight the gaps between what needs to be managed and what is currently being managed.
- Enable stakeholders to prioritise and/or design interventions that together form a coherent strategy that will actually improve desirable results.
- Focus management energy and resources and makes it possible to measure progress, or lack thereof, in areas that are critical for success.
A good example of the process and the outcomes can be downloaded here: REPORTBACK- THE EDUCATION ACTION SCORECARD INITIATIVE – EDUCATION WEEK 2010
This report-back was prepared to give stakeholders who participated in the Education Week 2010 initiative feedback about how their data and information was used and the outcome of their contributions.
We hope this document will:
- Carify the value of this simple, collaborative, non competitive approach to consensual strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation.
- Help leaders and managers imagine the impact and value of building Education Action Scorecards at all levels of South Africa’s education system.
- Inspire all stakeholders to take the next steps towards building an Education Action Scorecard of their own.
The Partners
The Education Action Scorecard Project is a joint partnership between Rooken Podesta of the Field Education and Dylan Wray of Shikaya and Dr Julian Day, of Collaborative Projects.
Dylan Wray is the Director of Shikaya, a non-profit organisation with a vision of a South Africa in which every learner is inspired through enthusiastic, committed and professionally prepared teachers to become responsible citizens in our democracy, valuing diversity, human rights and peace.
Rooken Podesta works with organisational leaders, managers, change agents and team builders who need to lead collaboratively in order to get things done, and who want to develop their team or group’s ability to collaborate effectively.
Julian Day specialises in facilitating organisational problem solving, complex projects and project crisis turnaround. He has developed practical action learning approaches to facilitate collaboration, group sense-making and sound intervention design in complex situations. He is committed to the growth and development of people so that they can manage the complexities of their work and lives creatively.
