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Arlington ISD trustees, students workshop strategic plan; board narrows values and reviews objectives
Summary
Trustees and student leaders met in a workshop to refine values and vision statements for a new strategic plan, narrowing an initial list of 24 values to 10, selecting three top vision drafts, and reviewing draft strategic objectives; the board recessed into closed session at the end of the public workshop.
At a workshop meeting, Arlington ISD trustees and the Student Leadership Advisory Board spent about an hour reviewing and refining the district's draft strategic plan, focusing on values and belief statements, three candidate vision statements and a set of strategic objectives staff will measure and implement. Dr. Smith led the session with facilitators Jody Durand and Greg Gibson guiding activities.
The gathering aimed to center student voice in the plan. "You're helping us set direction for the future of Arlington ISD," Dr. Smith told trustees and students as they worked at tables to comment on draft value statements posted around the room. The board and cabinet earlier had condensed 24 suggested values and beliefs to 10 candidate statements; trustees and students used markers and dot voting to give feedback on those drafts.
Why it matters: The workshop is part of the district's process to create an actionable strategic plan. Trustees approve the…
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