DMC has developed a comprehensive and complementary set of consulting services custom-tailored to support members’ academic mission while improving district management.District Strategic Support Services includes:
A SPED Opportunities Review helps districts identify strategies for increasing achievement, improving parent satisfaction, and reducing costs in the special education department. DMC will help the special education team analyze district resources and benchmark them against like districts. Using this analysis, DMC will help choose from over 75 specific strategies and prioritize those that present the best cost-saving and achievement-raising opportunities for your district.
A Central Office Operations Opportunities Review helps districts identify strategies for increasing efficiency, reducing cost, and improving quality of service across district operations (Transportation, IT, Human Resources, Food Services, School Safety, and other operational services). By auditing key measures of success across these operational categories, DMC will help operations teams select and prioritize opportunities for departmental improvement.
Given the complexities of message management in an environment of increasing expectations and dwindling resources, DMC believes that an approach that aligns messages with district actions is the most powerful way to gain long term community support. To do this, DMC will perform an objective brand assessment to help provide a more fact-based set of information to understand how the various stakeholders perceive the value and the services of the district. Following the brand assessment, DMC will help develop and test key messages that will help shift current perception to the desired one.
The design of a targeted communications plan includes identifying and prioritizing audiences and stakeholders, determining key communications objectives, and identifying specific strategies and tactics for reaching those objectives. DMC will help communications teams develop a practical and specific communications plan using objective facts and key messaging strategies that are sourced from a stakeholder engagement review.
A Strategic Plan Design engagement will help improve the clarity and specificity of a district’s strategic plan. The plan design will help the leadership team agree upon the most important metrics and initiatives within the district, and clarify the roles, timelines, and goals that align with these priority metrics/initiatives. The objective of this exercise is to improve and clarify expectations about the work of the district. The plan can then be used as a management tool to communicate internally and externally about the priorities of the leadership team, and it can be used as a tool to improve accountability in the district.
