2024 - 2028 Yupiit SD Strategic Plan
On September 14, 2023, a group of staff, students, community members and board members met to review the previous YSD strategic plan that had expired in 2020. The group identified four major areas of focus to update the strategic plan, as well as reviewing the district mission statement, vision statement, and Yupiaq values statements.
Using a combination of general funds and grant funding, a series of community meetings in the fall (October 24-November 3, 2023) and winter (January 22 through 24, 2024) were organized to identify YSD stakeholders’ opinions for objectives supporting the four focus areas that the strategic planning committee identified. Feedback was also collected regarding how the objectives could be accomplished over the course and duration of the strategic plan (2024-2028). The attendance and feedback from the communities were positively overwhelming. AASB worked with YSD leadership to create a synopsis of the community meetings and feedback which was shared during another convening of the YSD strategic planning group on February 8, 2024.
With the school board’s approval of three agreed upon objectives per focus area, AASB guided the YSD leadership team over the course of March and April in a series of online meetings to develop how the twelve objectives could be met within the time frame of the strategic plan. A copy of the completed strategic plan was presented at the May 16, 2024 school board meeting. The board asked that it be revised to include a translation of the mission statement in Yugtun. A revised copy was presented to the school board on May 31, 2024 with the requested revisions.
YSD worked with AASB’s marketing team to create a final draft for print during June 2024 which will be distributed to the school board and communities during the fall ESEA meetings September 2 – 13, 2024.
YSD strategic plan FINAL.pdf
May 2024 Strategic Planning
Top row left to right: Janice "Mikic" George, Scott Ballard, Moses Owen, Moses Peter, Robert Charles, Sr., Woody Woodgate, Ivan Ivan
Bottom Row left to right: Kary DelSignore, Melanie Kasayulie, Lillian Alexie
The YSD team would like to acknowledge the hard work and commitment at
every level to create the 2024-2029 Yupiit School District Strategic
Plan. As pointed out by our school board and Superintendent, this is
meant to be a “living” document to guide YSD’s commitment to our
Mission, Vision, and Yupiaq Values and provide areas of expectation from
our parents, students, and communities.