Moving Schools from Strategy to Foresight

Schools are built to react, not anticipate. This pathway explores how leaders can move from short-term strategic planning to long-range foresight thinking.







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What we're exploring today
  • Differentiate technical fixes from adaptive challenges, and why schools repeatedly confuse the two.
  • Understand the Three Horizons Framework and how it legitimizes short-, medium-, and long-range innovation.
  • Explore why complexity theory matters for K–12 leadership in an era of volatility, pandemics, and AI.
  • Examine practical foresight moves, including scenario planning, fringe-idea exploration, and building foresight-minded teams.
  • Reflect on your system’s “immune response” to innovation—and how leaders alter the organizational DNA to welcome new thinking.

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