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2025 Strategic Plan

Alexandria City Public Schools has pledged to provide an equitable, high quality education which is accessible and engaging to all students in a five-year strategic plan approved by the Alexandria City School Board on June 26, 2020.

Equity For All 2025 is a bold and courageous roadmap that is timely and will position ACPS as a national leader in redefining PreK-12 education as a deliberately inclusive and supportive experience where all succeed.

Going forward, racial equity will be at the center of every decision that the school division will make.

The plan’s mission is to ensure success by inspiring students and addressing barriers to learning. 

The plan’s vision is: Empowering all students to thrive in a diverse and ever-changing world.

ACPS 2025: Equity for All

ACPS is sharing monthly videos that provide staff, families, students and community members an inside glimpse of how the School Board works with the division to bring the mission, vision and goals of the ACPS 2025: Equity for All strategic plan to life!

Equity for All 2025 | Student Accessibility and Support from ACPS on Vimeo.

In this video, ACPS School Board Member Michelle Rief discusses our student accessibility and support strategic goal that ensures all students have equitable access to and engagement with programs and supports that reduce barriers to learning.

In this video, ACPS School Board Chair Meagan Alderton discusses our instructional excellence strategic goal that ensures all students have access to and engagement with high-quality instruction.

In this video, ACPS School Board Member Tammy Ignacio discusses social, emotional and academic learning recovery (SEAL), one of ACPS’ 2022-23 Areas of Focus.

In this video, ACPS School Board Member Kelly Carmichael Booz shares details around our strategic goal of building a culture of continuous improvement and designing equitable systems for school and instructional improvement.

In this video, ACPS School Board Member Abdel-Rahman Elnoubi offers a deeper dive at how the ACPS School Board comes together to plan and make decisions on yearly budgets.

In this video, ACPS School Board Chair Meagan Alderton shares an overview of the vision, mission and core values of the strategic plan and how Equity for All 2025 is transformational, with racial equity at the heart.

ACPS 2025: Equity for All has five core values that ensure ACPS is Welcoming, Empowering, Equity-Focused, Innovative and Results-Driven. 

In addition, it has five primary strategic goals: Systemic Alignment; Instructional Excellence; Student Accessibility and Support; Strategic Resource Allocation; and Family and Community Engagement.

Each of these goals ensures that students are engaged in classroom instruction, have access to the educational resources needed to enhance their learning, and participate while in safe, friendly, and welcoming environments. 

It also sets clear division-wide priorities and programs that will eliminate opportunity and achievement gaps as well as ensure that all students graduate ready for college, careers and life. Progress toward these strategic goals will be measured with rigorous metrics.

For the first time in the history of ACPS, the strategic planning process was aligned with the planning process for multiple citywide departments and organizations with the goal of ensuring that City and school plans have shared goals and outcomes. This Unified Planning Team included the Department of Community and Human Services’ Children and Youth Master Plan (CYMP), and the Alexandria Health Department and the Partnership for a Healthier Alexandria’s Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). 

These organizations embraced a shared understanding of racial equity and kept that principle at the heart of all decision making. The key focus areas of the Unified Planning Team are racial equity, developmental assets and a trauma-informed approach. They aim to add value through collective community engagement, the sharing of data, and a focus on joint outcomes. 

The development of the ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan, guided by ACPS’ consultant FourPoint Education Partners, has taken more than a year of collaboration and engagement involving a Strategic Planning Committee consisting of ACPS staff from every school, students, parents and representation from key community groups across Alexandria.

ACPS will work with the Unified Planning Team to develop a process to implement their plans together.

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