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Superintendent delivers year‑end strategic roadmap update; facilities planning and MTSS data tools highlighted
Summary
Superintendent Chase Anderson reviewed the district’s seven strategic directions, highlighted facilities and pre‑referendum timelines, described a pilot of ABRAE student data software to support MTSS, and answered board questions about equity initiatives and student achievement.
Superintendent Chase Anderson presented the board with a year‑end strategic roadmap update that reviewed seven strategic directions and operational priorities for 2025–26, including facilities planning, student growth monitoring, recruitment, and health and well‑being initiatives.
Anderson noted the district has updated its roadmap several times since 2011 and emphasized two ongoing priorities: delivering an outstanding daily experience for students and ensuring high‑quality instruction. He said the district’s leadership teams have aligned teacher evaluation changes with classroom‑level instructional goals and that each elementary building will have a counselor this fall.
Facilities and enrollment projections were a focal point. Anderson referenced recent demographic work by TeamWorks International and Hazel Reinhardt and said architects and construction managers (Kraus Anderson) are supporting district planning. He warned of a tight board timetable if the district decides to bring a facilities question to voters: “there's kind of a tight timeline on that because I believe it's somewhere around November 25 that the board has to make a determination on, if and in what format we would bring a question to the community.” Anderson said twice‑monthly SLT meetings will focus on facilities and pre‑referendum planning.
On instructional supports, Anderson described the district’s purchase and pilot of ABRAE, a student‑data visualization tool intended to consolidate MTSS (multi‑tiered system of supports) data for more timely decisions. He said the district will pilot ABRAE at Sunset Hill East and in one house of the high school this fall and aims to extend the system more broadly once data integrations and training are complete.
Board member Valentina raised concerns about equity and DEI‑style work, asking whether the district planned to “drop DI.” Anderson replied that the district’s stated equity focus is meeting the specific needs of individual students and said the district is not violating law and remains committed to differentiated supports: “We have more work to do, and we feel by continuing to modify or change our approaches... wewill continue to refine our craft.” He reiterated the district’s mission to “ensure a world class education that prepares each and every student to thrive today and excel tomorrow.”
Anderson also reported that Moody’s affirmed the district’s triple‑A bond rating in preparation for bonds tied to the West Middle School construction project, noting that fiscal management supports operational capacity. He offered to return with a fuller update in August and to provide more detailed materials in the narrative report available in the board packet.
Ending: The presentation tied instructional work and student supports to upcoming decisions about facilities and resources; administration emphasized a short calendar for potential voter questions and said it will continue facility planning and data‑system pilots while reporting back to the board.
