Strategic Plan

Introduction

From 2019 to 2022, AUSD worked on a strategic plan to help our district articulate and align our educational focus, time, resources, and organizational design. It is especially focused on providing equitable opportunities and access to all of our students.

This strategic planning process began with meetings with the Board of Education and focus groups to discuss and identify AUSD’s mission, values, priorities, and challenges. The next phase included meetings with teachers, staff, students, and families across the district to get a better sense of the steps they believed our district should take to improve the educational experience and outcomes in AUSD. Although staff had to pause their work during COVID, the Strategic Plan has been discussed and presented multiple times at Board meetings over these past three years.

While the plan has gone through numerous drafts and remains a living document, the most recent draft was presented to the Board of Education in June, 2022. That presentation is available here.

Vision

Mission

Graduate Profile

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Introduction

A Graduate Profile is a composite of the global skills and dispositions a district wants for all of its students to develop by the time they graduate. While we understand that different students develop these characteristics and skills in different ways and along different timelines, our goal is for all of our graduates to have these abilities by the time they leave our district.

AUSD Graduate Profile

Strategic Plan

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Guiding Principles

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Principles

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Principles

We believe there is value in diversity, and that by providing equitable educational opportunities for all students, everyone can succeed.
We believe that education should be student-centered and focused on the whole child.
We believe that social, emotional, and mental well-being are crucial to the success of students.
We believe that inequities exist within our current educational system and that it is our responsibility to diminish them.
We believe that students deserve the opportunity to explore and pursue their interests and that it is the responsibility of employees to support them in this.
We believe that clear and transparent communication with stakeholders is vital to the success of students.
We believe that staff and administration should work alongside stakeholders to ensure that students are being given the services they need and are being challenged appropriately.