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Blue Valley adopts 2025–26 district goals; administration to give quarterly progress reports
Summary
The board unanimously adopted district goals for 2025–26 that emphasize standards alignment (with attention to middle- and high-school math), professional learning, mental-health supports and career-ready programming analysis. Administration agreed to provide quarterly progress targets and updates.
The Blue Valley Board of Education unanimously adopted the district’s 2025–26 goals on July 21 after a workshop-length discussion of priorities and reporting expectations.
Deputy Superintendent Katie Collier presented the goals and described them as a continuation and refinement of existing initiatives: standards alignment across grade levels, emphasis on high-school math and English language arts rigor, high-quality professional learning for teachers, coordinated mental-health resources for students and families, and analysis of career-ready programming and transportation opportunities for students accessing off-site courses.
Collier said the goals will include specific work on a middle-school CAPS model (instructional experiences tied to professional studies) and continued development of the high-school individual plan-of-study work. She told the board administration will provide reports on middle-school math work and accreditation progress and will analyze career-ready programming enrollment and transportation capacity.
Board member Jim pressed administration about why math was singled out; Collier and staff said math and ELA needs at high school were informed by student-performance data and previous curriculum work. Collier said the district will “provide a report to you regarding our work with middle school math” and later agreed to a requested reporting cadence. Board President Jan asked for at least quarterly updates that state the goal for the coming quarter and what was achieved; Collier responded, “I think we can achieve that request.”
The board voted to approve the goals with a motion from Jim and a second from Patrick. The motion passed unanimously.
Why it matters
The adopted goals set the district’s instructional, wellbeing and career-readiness priorities for the coming year and establish an accountability rhythm (quarterly reporting) that board members requested. Specific initiatives called out by staff — such as middle-school CAPS experiences, high-school curriculum work and career-program enrollment analysis with Johnson County Community College — will be tracked and reported.
Next steps
Administration will provide the board with quarterly progress updates that identify the coming quarter’s goals and measurable outcomes; staff will report on middle-school math work, accreditation status and career-ready program analyses.
