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Clinton County RESA superintendent outlines 3–5 year strategic plan and dashboards
Summary
Scott Kanishnick, superintendent of Clinton County RESA, presented a newly adopted strategic plan including mission and vision statements, five goal areas and a dashboard that will track progress quarterly.
Scott Kanishnick, superintendent of Clinton County Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA), briefed the DeWitt Public Schools Board on Clinton County RESA's strategic planning process and the agency’s 3-to-5-year implementation dashboard.
Kanishnick said he began the planning process after arriving in the role and recommended hiring the Michigan Association of School Boards to assist. The board approved engaging the association in February 2024, followed by data collection and stakeholder input through April and two full-day work sessions. "We finished that particular day with establishing 5 strategic goal areas," Kanishnick said, and the plan contains a revised mission, vision and six belief statements.
The strategic plan identifies five goal areas color-coded in the RESA materials: services, programs and partnerships; organizational culture; teaching and learning; communications and community engagement; and operations, personnel and finance. Kanishnick said activities already under way include a special education task force, expanded district profile work where RESA staff meet shoulder-to-shoulder with district staff to review local data, and a communications contract with Ingham ISD for two days per week on-site support.
Kanishnick described the dashboard RESA will use to measure progress quarterly and said the agency is treating the plan as active, not a shelved document: "We measure it every quarter. ... Red means we haven't started it yet ... Yellow means it's in progress. And green means it's done."
He also highlighted countywide program metrics included in the two-page packet he handed to board members: RESA serves 1,199 students with individualized education programs (IEPs) during the 2023-24 school year, operates early childhood services for about 350 children ages 0–3, and supports more than 1,000 students in countywide career and technical education programs. Kanishnick said RESA operates an office in downtown DeWitt for statewide services called the Office of Innovative Projects.
Ending: Kanishnick offered to return for questions and indicated the RESA board will receive quarterly progress reports tied to the dashboard.
