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Limitless Potential. Real-World Ready

Strategic Plan

Our Plan and Promise for Future Ready Students

WSD's new strategic plan will create opportunity and success for every student. To accomplish this, we will help students overcome barriers, fulfill their potential, and graduate—ready to pursue vocational training, college, or a career.

Strategic Plan

Our Values

Excellent in Learning
Building the knowledge, understanding, and skills of all to achieve at the highest levels.

Equity
Creating systems, structures, and practices to meet the individual needs of our students and staff.

Accountability
Setting expectations and holding ourselves to the highest standards of integrity, learning, fiscal responsibility, and transparency.

 

This new strategic plan is a bold commitment to ensure each student receives rigorous instruction, meets grade-level standards, and is on track to graduate. In the next five years, WSD will focus on providing opportunities and support for each student to achieve the “Big 6” future-ready outcomes and keep our promise to build a foundation of diversity, equity, and inclusion from which each student emerges future-ready.  

Wenatchee School District’s new strategic plan is a road map to fulfilling our promise to students. Students come to our schools with unique lived experiences, at different starting points, and in need of individualized attention. The core of our plan is our promise. Our promise acknowledges those realities, and our strategic plan provides a framework within which students’ differences are assets.
 

We promise to build a foundation of diversity, equity, and inclusion from which each student emerges future-ready. 

Developing Our Plan and Promise

Starting in July of 2019, Superintendent Gordon began laying the groundwork for starting the planning process by embarking on a comprehensive Listen and Learn Tour to gather an understanding of the district's strengths, challenges, and what is most important for him to consider as plans are developed for the district's future. The input he received, combined with feedback from surveys and small group meetings, helped establish a solid foundation and understanding of who we are as a district and school community. This information also helped identify themes that will serve as starting points for discovery during the strategic planning process. The themes were presented to the school board in June 2020. 

Early in January 2020 the school board developed their core values of Equity, Accountability and Academic Excellence. These values will serve as guiding principles through the strategic planning process and beyond.  The school board will take a critical next step in this process during a visioning workshop on September 21, 2020. During this session the board discussed the characteristics of a vision as a collective body. 

The strategic plan process also incorporated best practices from the most current research about how to positively impact student success. WSD has areas to improve, and the strategic planning process required an honest assessment of our gaps. Community feedback starting in July 2019, coupled with relevant research, pointed to the same solution: focus on the students—the quality of their learning and their outcomes.

Community input and leadership
The Wenatchee community cares deeply about its youth. When WSD asked for community volunteers and input, you answered the call! Through individual meetings, listening sessions, community and school events and a community survey, we gathered feedback from thousands of people. Volunteers came forward to serve on the strategic planning team. Thanks to the community, our strategic plan will represent the voices of teachers, parents, students, community members, and district leadership—all of whom served as powerful advocates for our students.

Strategic Planning Team:
Rebecca Carter (parent), Maria Castro (parent), Gerri Glines (parent), Michelle Jobe (parent), Arlette Lopez-Rodriguez (student), Lizbeth Rivera-Estrada (community member), Denali Rojas-Estrada (student), Aria Rumley-Wells (student), Steve Sandmaan (community member), Ricardo Iniguez (staff), Donna Limon (staff), Sheena Zacherle (staff), Karissa Harle (staff), Tanya Dacey (staff).

Proof Points

  • WSD met with more than 2,000 stakeholders during the discovery phase of developing the strategic plan.
  • WSD held 75 listening & learning sessions with its staff, students, and parents to hear what the people most affected by the strategic plan felt it needed to include.
  • WSD participated in 63 community and school events to engage directly with a range of community stakeholders regarding the strategic plan.
  • After an open call for submissions, WSD formed a strategic planning team comprised of parents, students, community members, and district staff to guide and inform the plan’s development.
  • WSD distributed a stakeholder survey and received 1,339 submissions which the strategic planning team read and considered during the discovery phase of the plan.
  • Themes of instructional rigor, caring relationships, reading and math improvements, on time graduation, community partnerships and career connected and extracurricular opportunities  emerged from the community and are being used to identify student outcome goals.

Plan & Promise Viewbook

'BIG 6' Future Ready Outcomes

Our new strategic plan will create opportunity and success for every student. To accomplish this, we will help students overcome barriers, fulfill their potential, and graduate—ready to pursue vocational training, college, or a career.

This new strategic plan is a bold commitment to ensure each student receives rigorous instruction, meets grade-level standards, and is on track to graduate. In the next five years, WSD will focus on providing the opportunities and the support for each student to achieve the “Big 6” future-ready outcomes and keep our promise to build a foundation of diversity, equity, and inclusion from which each student emerges future-ready. 

Experience High-Quality Instruction

Students receive and participate in grade-level or beyond standards, instruction, and assignments.

Belong And Are Connected

Students know they belong (seen, valued, heard) and have healthy relationships with staff and peers.

Read on Grade Level

Students will read on grade level by 3rd grade and beyond, and will continue to grow their skills, knowledge, and abilities throughout their education.

Ready For Algebra

Students will be on grade level or beyond by 8th grade in Algebra (Number and Operations and Algebraic Thinking).

On-Track For Graduation

Students are on track to graduate by the end of their freshman year and beyond.

Involved In Real-World, Relevant Learning

Students are engaged in a continuum of learning experiences that create awareness, exploration, preparation, and work experiences to be future-ready.

Our Priorities

We have identified priorities and action steps critical to meeting the “Big 6.”
 

Thriving Environment

Welcoming spaces where all individuals flourish, are seen and valued, feel safe, and know they belong.

Partnerships

Relationships between students, families, schools, and community that enhance student well-being and success.

Opportunities

Equitable access to high-quality academic, extracurricular, and real-world experiences.

Practices And Action Steps

Report Cards

We commit to sharing our progress annually with the community. We'll celebrate successes and talk about areas of growth.