While many may think that being in the midst of a pandemic would slow down the work of the Strategic Plan, many key initiatives have actually been sped up so they can launch in Fall 2021 to help support the needs of students after this unexpected year

In March, dozens of district partners and community sustainability stakeholders joined Boulder Valley School District staff to launch our community engagement work to update the district’s Sustainability Management System (SMS). This effort is the third update of the plan that was originally published in 2009 and updated in 2015.

The Equal School Day plan includes time set aside each week for teachers to learn and engage with each other about their professional practice. A number of schools in BVSD already have weekly time for professional learning in their schedules and see the benefit of it for teachers and students.

“School nurses have been the guiding light for their school through all of the recommendations and all of those requirements,” shares Stephanie Faren, BVSD Director of Health Services.

On a recent Spring Saturday, students from Alicia Sanchez Elementary took turns packing dirt around newly installed wildlife displays in the open space just outside of their school, while across the way, Centaurus High School students were laboring to build new trails between the elementary school and the surrounding neighborhood.

While many may think that being in the midst of a pandemic would slow down the work of the Strategic Plan, many key initiatives have actually been sped up so they can launch in Fall 2021 to help support the needs of students after this unexpected year