The Laramie County School District No. 2 board agreed Aug. 11 to publicize four upcoming town-hall meetings and to hold a September board retreat intended to finalize a draft strategic plan for 2025–27.

The meetings are intended to gather written feedback on the draft strategic plan and on county zones policy; administrators said the sessions will be advertised at back-to-school events and that each meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. The board asked trustees to attend meetings in their communities where possible.

Justin, a district administrator who presented the draft plan, said the new version is "half as big but twice as deep," consolidating priorities and focusing on routines—"habit forming" items—rather than adding numerous discrete goals. He said administrators rewrote action items to describe observable results over one year and over a two-year horizon.

Justin described a procedural change: at the end of every administrative meeting staff will pull up the strategic plan and report whether topics discussed align with the plan. "If we're not, one of two things should happen: we either need to change our strategic plan to match what we talk about, or change what we talk about to match the strategic plan," he said.

Trustees discussed potential retreat topics including revising the superintendent-evaluation tool and pairing data review with administrators' descriptions of "pinch points" and immediate corrective plans. One trustee suggested that, in addition to charts and data, the retreat include brief reports from administrators about priorities and planned interventions, so the board can better interpret testing and assessment trends.

Board members who attended spring working sessions said they had documentation showing how the prior plan evolved; administrators said they will present a transition synopsis at the retreat showing accomplishments and items rolled into the new draft.

The board did not adopt a final strategic plan at the meeting. Administration said it will publish the draft next week, solicit feedback at the four town-hall meetings and return the plan to the board for consideration after a month of public input. The retreat is scheduled in September at the Letour Meade site (as noted by staff) to allow concentrated work on data review and strategy-setting.

Ending: Trustees asked staff to publicize the town-hall schedule, collect stakeholder input via in-person meetings and a post-event Google form, and prepare documents (including a transition synopsis and suggested evaluation-tool changes) for the September retreat.