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District Strategic Plan

Winter view of Mount Abrams with the sunrise.

PRIORITY 1: Ouray School attracts and retains high quality staff.

FOCUS 1

Competitive salaries and benefits for all staff

FOCUS 2

High quality professional development
  1. Strive for annual increases to the base
  2. Achieve a teacher base of $50K by FY2028
  3. Examine steps and column movement
  4. Examine creative compensation approaches including salary vs benefits
  5. Expand stipends for strategic priorities and values
  1. Expand onboarding/orientation program
  2. Create a revolving loan fund for continuing education
  3. Support individual and collective PD needs through a healthy staff development budget
  4. Foster a culture of feedback
  5. Collaborate with regional districts and education nonprofits to expand opportunities

Measures of Success

  • Staff retention rates
  • Annual staff climate survey
  • TLCC state teacher survey

Measures of Success

  • Professional development feedback
  • Annual staff climate survey

PRIORITY 2: Ouray School strives to develop the whole learner.

FOCUS 1

Safe learning culture

FOCUS 2

Mental health supports

FOCUS 3
Interpersonal communication skills
  1. Develop trusting staff-student relationships
  2. Maintain an inclusion culture
  3. Implement a middle school social emotional learning curriculum
  4. Implement conflict resolution protocols
  5. Provide time and space for student-needs discussions
  1. Centralize and communicate community resources
  2. Expand partnerships with regional community organizations and community learning 
  3. Establish a school-based therapy agreement
  1. Provide aut
  2. hentic audiences
  3. Create performance projects/assessments
  4. Foster cross-grade interactions
  5. Rehearse communication skills / role playing
  6. Practice interviews and resume clinics

Measures of Success

  • Biennial Healthy Kids Colorado Survey (HKCS)
  • Student Perception Surveys
  • Climate surveys

Measures of Success

  • Biennial Healthy Kids Colorado Survey (HKCS)
  • Student Perception Surveys

Measures of Success

  • Body of evidence

PRIORITY 3: Ouray School provides diverse educational offerings, opportunities, and experiences.

FOCUS 1

Course offerings and learning experience

FOCUS 2

Beyond-the-classroom experiences
  1. Develop an intentional advisory program
  2. Expand Peak Experiences to all schools
  3. Provide differentiated classroom instruction
  4. Provide and support diverse course offerings
  5. Support learning with current instructional technologies
  1. Empower staff and students to travel regionally, nationally, internationally 
  2. Expand experiential learning opportunities
  3. Expand student-led clubs and activities
  4. Expand Work-Based Learning partnerships
  5. Serve the community through service learning

Measures of Success

  • Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP) continuum
  • Biennial parent school climate survey

Measures of Success

  • Biennial parent school climate survey

PRIORITY 4: Ouray School develops strong family-school-community partnerships.

FOCUS 1

Stakeholder communication

FOCUS 2

Stakeholder engagement
  1. Promote school and community events across diverse platforms
  2. Target just-in-time communication
  3. Conduct school and community surveys
  1. Establish parent and community involvement needs at each level
  2. Engage stakeholders in strategic and facilities planning
  3. Involve the community in plan feedback and evaluation

Measures of Success

  • Biennial parent school climate survey
  • Annual superintendent evaluation feedback
  • Communication platform analytics

Measures of Success

  • Stakeholder attendance/participation
  • Community input/feedback

PRIORITY 5: Ouray School conducts capital planning to achieve the strategic needs of the district.

FOCUS 1

Staff housing

FOCUS 2

Buildings and learning spaces for the future
  1. Investigate the purchase of district-owned staff housing
  2. Establish an affordable housing committee
  3. Create district fund for affordable housing
  4. Network with landlords to leverage opportunities for staff
  1. Design future buildings for expanded programs and course offerings
  2. Include flexible learning spaces
  3. Design multi-purpose spaces
  4. Provide quality athletic facilities

Measures of Success

  • Tenant occupancy rate
  • Committee membership/charges and agendas

Measures of Success

  • Facilities master plan completion
  • Stakeholder attendance in planning and design