Strategic Plan Resources

Strategic Plan 2018-24 Update

Previous APS Strategic Plans

2011-17 Strategic Plan          2005-11 Strategic Plan

Recently posted resources

FAC’s Future Facilities Needs Report (Apr. 3, 2018)

Resources from School Board Charge

• Whole Child Framework: This document provides the framework for ensuring that each student is “healthy, safe, supported, engaged, and academically challenged.”
• Profile of a Virginia Graduate: This document describes the knowledge, skills, and experiences and attributes that students must attain to be successful in college and/or the work force and to be “life ready” in an economy and a world characterized by rapid change.
• Building the Talent Pipeline. This document articulates the focus for better preparing students to enter the workforce and be successful in their chosen careers.
• Master Planning Committee Report: This document recommends potential future learning directions for APS and its students.
• Community Facility Study and 2015 Report: The document recommends a formal, integrated strategic needs assessment and priority setting process between APS and Arlington County
• 2017 Baldrige Self Assessment
• Advisory Committee on Instruction’s Annual Reports
• Arlington’s 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey
• Arlington County Vision: “Arlington will be a diverse and inclusive world-class urban community with secure, attractive residential and commercial neighborhoods where people unite to form a caring, learning, participating, sustainable community in which each person is important.”
• Program Evaluations
• 21st Century Skills Early Learning
  • P21 Framework
• Environmental Scan
• APS 3-5 Year Action Plan

Additional Resources Reviewed

• Virginia’s Workplace Readiness Skills: Framework for the Future
• Destination Known: Valuing College and Career Readiness in State Accountability Systems
• Blueprint Virginia 2025 A Business Plan for the Commonwealth
• Ed Week, Dec. 13, 2017 commentary “Students Must Be Prepared to Reinvent Themselves, What will the job market look like in 2030?”
• VA Dept. of Ed., Nov. 16, 2017 announcement “Board of Education Revises School Accreditation & Graduation Requirements”
• Green School Catalyst Quarterly, Dec. 2017, “How a School Division’s Strategic Plan Inspired a Zero Energy Elementary School”
• IB Learner Profiles
• Employability Skills
• Global Competence
• Technology Tipping Points
• Supporting Future Oriented Teaching and Learning
• The Future of Jobs
• A Transformational Vision for Education in the US
• Dashboard (APS data)
• Strategic Plan

Resources provided by Steering Committee Members

• Jennifer Flores shared “10 Principals for Schools of Modern Learning“
• Michael Swisher shared “Educating ‘the whole child’ isn’t just jargon. Here’s how it’s done.”  From Washington Post, Dec. 20, 2017
• Jennifer Johnson shared “APS Special Education Performance Data 2011-16”
• Jennifer Flores shared “Arlington Tech Quarterly Review for Students”
• Heather Sauve suggested that members do a web search of TOP SCHOOLS IN US and review their strategic plans
• Jennifer Flores shared “Mission and Vision”