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Setting your digital strategy: where to start

Creating a digital strategy is much easier if you consider it as part of your wider school improvement planning. Understand the steps you should take before creating your strategy, and find guidance and resources to help you get started.

Last reviewed on 14 March 2025
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Contents
  1. Why do you need a digital strategy?
  2. Complete these 3 steps before you begin
  3. Align with your school's improvement plan
  4. Review the technology you're currently using
  5. Get feedback from stakeholders
  6. Use the same approach for your AI strategy 
  7. Look at your strategy as an ongoing process

Why do you need a digital strategy?

Creating a digital strategy is 1 of the recommendations in the Department for Education (DfE)’s guidance, meeting digital and technology standards in schools. 

An effective digital strategy will make sure that your school's digital technology is meeting the specific needs of pupils and staff.

You should primarily focus on improving learning outcomes for your pupils, but your strategy can also have wider benefits, such as improving staff wellbeing or saving you money in the long term.

A digital strategy that's aligned with your development plan will help you:

  • Stay within budget
  • Train pupils and staff to use digital technology safely and effectively
  • Assess the impact of digital technology against your strategy

You don't necessarily need the latest technology to implement an effective digital strategy – it's just as important to understand what you already have and how it can be