The Utah State Board of Education adopted a revised mission and vision statement and added a purpose statement that references the board’s constitutional role.

The new vision adopted by the board reads, “Open doors of opportunity for all Utah children.” The board approved a mission phrase emphasizing “academic and organizational excellence in Utah education for an elevated educated citizenry,” and added a purpose statement: “The Utah State Board of Education is responsible for general oversight and supervision of the public education system as established by the Utah Constitution,” with language acknowledging the state’s heritage and parental role.

Board members then worked through a set of strategic priorities during a facilitated session. The board approved a slate of priorities across three goals (promote educator quality and effectiveness; elevate student learning; optimize oversight and accountability). Key votes included:

- Approved systems to identify and support highly effective educators and empower them to share best practices statewide.
- Approved a priority to streamline licensing pathways to attract and retain highly qualified professionals to public education.
- Approved enhanced, evidence‑based professional development and administrator training to strengthen leadership and teaching.
- Approved policy language to enhance instruction by identifying, supporting and scaling effective teaching practices.
- Approved priorities on closing individual learning gaps with timely interventions and to strengthen risk assessment and mitigation processes to improve internal controls.

Most mission/vision and priority votes carried with broad support. The board directed staff to translate the approved priorities into implementation tasks and metrics for later reporting.