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Chesapeake presents draft 'Empower 2030' strategic plan; board to consider approval next meeting
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Summary
Superintendent and staff presented a draft five‑year strategic plan, Empower 2030, keeping the district's vision and mission and proposing five goals and updated values; the board may place the plan on the consent agenda for approval at the next meeting if no major changes are recommended.
Chesapeake Public Schools administrators presented a draft of Empower 2030, the division’s next five‑year strategic plan, and asked the board to review the draft ahead of a likely approval vote at the next regular meeting.
“Empower 2030 is not a brand new beginning. It’s just the next chapter in our journey that we started five years ago,” said Fallon Graham, the staff presenter. Graham said the plan builds on work under Empower 2025 and is “rooted in data, driven by collaboration, and focused on impact.”
Why it matters: The strategic plan will guide staffing, curriculum, capital investments and operations across 45 schools. Administrators said the plan’s goals and values will be used to align budgets and day‑to‑day decisions districtwide.
Graham summarized the draft’s core elements: the district’s vision and mission will remain, the values were refined to include creating opportunity, elevating potential, cultivating innovation, modeling integrity, promoting accountability, inspiring excellence and connecting the community, and five goals were retained or added — learners, people, operations, well‑being, and community. The plan was developed through a climate survey, community focus groups and multi‑day action‑team workshops that used a backwards‑design model to build success measures and linked initiatives.
The administration asked the board to review the draft; if no substantial revisions are requested the plan will be included in the consent agenda at the board’s next meeting. Dr. Marcus Cotton, superintendent, described the plan as a guiding document that administrators use in decision making: “Every decision that the administration makes is guided through the lens of this document,” Cotton said.
No formal vote was held; staff said the draft will return for approval at the next board meeting and recommended it be included on the May 19 consent agenda if members have no major changes.
