Student Planning in Improving the Quality of Education

This research is motivated by the phenomenon of private elementary schools that have academic and non-academic achievements beating public elementary schools. This achievement is the positive impact of student management carried out starting from student planning, student organization, participant management and student supervision. Management is carried out using the national curriculum and local curriculum in student development activities. The researcher used a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach in a multi-site study design. Data collection techniques used were in-depth interviews, participant observation, and documentation. Data analysis used single site data analysis and cross site analysis. The checking of the validity of the data is done by triangulation between sources, triangulation between methods, triangulation between times, member checks and analysis of negative cases. The conclusion of this study is that student planning in improving the quality of education can be done by setting criteria for prospective students, identifying and analyzing information on prospective students, determining alternative student plans, supervising the implementation of student planning, making agreements with parents of related students parenting style at home.