The Boulder Valley School District has developed a new Strategic Plan. This ambitious, exciting and comprehensive effort will guide BVSD for the next five years and aims at bringing everyone together to meet the needs of all students.
We believe that Boulder Valley is uniquely positioned because of its resources and outstanding educators to overcome the challenges we face, including an achievement gap that educators across Colorado and the nation have struggled to address.
Long Term Outcomes
Our new Strategic Plan will be focused on the needs of our students. For this reason, BVSD administrators, employees, parents and community members have three Long Term Student Outcomes -- specific, student-focused, measurable results that we want our students to achieve across the district.
Outcome #1
All students benefit from challenging and relevant educational opportunities
Outcome #2
Reduce disparities in achievement
Outcome #3
Every student graduates empowered with the skills necessary for post-graduate success
Strategic Themes
Strategic Themes are areas that must be addressed to achieve long-term outcomes.
Strategic Theme #1
Ensure all instruction is challenging, engaging, relevant and meets the needs of all students
Strategic Theme #2
Provide schools and educators with responsive and customized supports to best serve students
Strategic Theme #3
Engage the talent and passion of our community and families through communication, empowerment and partnership
Strategic Theme #4
Cultivate a positive and inclusive culture throughout BVSD that promotes well-being of students, families and employees
Our Timeline
Over the past year, the Boulder Valley School District engaged in an intensive strategic planning process, which has culminated in a comprehensive plan and the first phase of action initiatives.
Phase 1 Initiatives
About the Strategic Plan
- Student first, always
- Building from where we are, instead of starting over
- Feedback Focused
- Data Driven
Student first, always
All of our efforts in the Boulder Valley School District are focused on the 31,000 students we serve and ensuring that they succeed not only today, but in the college and career pathway of their choice. As a result, this strategic plan will be focused on the students and how we can significantly improve student outcomes.
Building from where we are, instead of starting over
Feedback Focused
All of this work is built up the feedback of hundreds of BVSD parents, employees and community members. During his 100-Day Plan, Superintendent Rob Anderson met with the faculty at all 56 BVSD schools, as well as parents and community members at a number of Meet & Greet Sessions held regionally across Boulder Valley. During all of these sessions, participants provided direct feedback to the superintendent regarding the state of the district and areas they wanted improved. This feedback, along with all of the public engagement that led up to the Success Effect, has helped to inform and shape the new strategic plan.
Data Driven
We will develop measures that will help drive our work. We will focus on Return on Investment (ROI) so that we can stop doing what is not working; benchmark our performance both locally and nationally with similar, high performing districts; and develop targets that will allow us to focus our efforts on student outcomes. In order to establish a baseline, BVSD worked with Greenway Strategy Solutions to pull together as much data as possible regarding the state of the school district, including state assessment results, district culture and climate surveys and much, much more.