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Board reviews draft strategic plan; debates values wording and metrics
Summary
Consultants from NASB led the board through the draft strategic plan—vision, mission, eight values and four focus areas (student success, qualified educators, accountability/data, system alignment)—and members debated language emphasizing educators versus leadership and measurement options for student well‑being and educator retention.
Consultants from the National Association of State Boards of Education led the board through an extended review of the draft strategic plan and solicited edits to vision, mission and value statements. They framed the plan as a living document aimed at guiding board priorities and recommended the board be ready to adopt a stakeholder-refined draft by September. "Our ultimate goal for today is to get to a place where you feel like you've got a strong enough draft," the consultant said.
Board members focused on several wording issues: whether to describe educators as "the greatest asset" or to emphasize "student‑centered, educator‑supported leadership" that clarifies the board's leadership role. Members also discussed the difficulty of measuring student well‑being at a statewide level and suggested a limited set of measurable indicators—such as a subset of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey items (for example, students' sense of safety) and accreditation/college‑readiness metrics—rather than many state-wide indices. The consultants recommended aligning committee responsibilities and agenda items to the focus areas so committees can track metrics and own implementation work. "We can make a crosswalk document" linking the board plan and OPI priorities, the consultant suggested, and board members favored creating that crosswalk rather than embedding OPI language directly in the board plan.
The board asked staff to refine value wording (especially the educator/leadership phrasing) and to work with OPI on a crosswalk and stakeholder outreach plan. Members agreed to circulate a shortened one‑pager to targeted stakeholders and to solicit feedback ahead of September.
