Implementation of Strategic Planning to Enhance Education Governance Quality

Abstract

Strategic planning has been applied to social organizations, including in education. This study aimed to find and examine the process of preparing and implementing strategic plans and their impact on governance quality at Madrasah Aliyah Amanatullah, Banyuwangi Regency. This research is field research with a qualitative approach—information obtained through observation, interviews with primary data sources, and documentation. Data were analyzed by data reduction, presentation, and inference using domain analysis. The validity of the data uses intensive observation and triangulation criteria. The results of the study show that: (1) The process of preparing a strategic plan at MA Amanatullah Banyuwangi is: first formulating the vision, mission, and goals of the school by involving all stakeholders, followed by forming a strategic planning team; to the analysis process in the formulation of strategic planning and analysis of strategic options. (2) The implementation process is carried out through work assignments and cooperation in implementing strategic planning and evaluating the implementation of strategic planning. (3) The impact on improving school governance, namely; schools have guidelines in improving the quality of educators and education staff, schools can improve service governance to students, practical cooperation is established with all Madrasah Aliyah Amanatullah stakeholders.