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District superintendent outlines strategic plan progress, data dashboard and implementation priorities
Summary
Superintendent Julie Nielsen reviewed the district’s vision card, survey sources and five strategic priority areas; she highlighted data showing areas requiring intervention and implementation items including literacy, MTSS, EduClimber data warehousing, career pathways, Skyward Q research and multilingual communication.
Superintendent Julie Nielsen presented an update on South Washington County Schools’ strategic plan during the Nov. 6 board workshop, reviewing the district "vision card," the surveys and data that underpin it, and the five priority areas guiding implementation.
Nielsen said the strategic-plan process began in 2022 with broad participation from staff, students and community members and resulted in five core values: connections, integrity, equity, excellence and innovation. She described the district vision card as a monitoring tool that places measures along a continuum from "requires intervention" to "vision achieved," driven by perception and assessment data.
Nielsen identified the data sources used to populate the vision card: the Minnesota Student Survey (administered in grades 5, 8, 9 and 11), a Morris Leatherman survey…
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