{"id":6618,"date":"2019-03-10T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2019-03-11T07:27:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:27:38","slug":"school-board-matters-recognizing-awesome-teachers-partnerships-and-our-next-strategic-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/school-board-matters-recognizing-awesome-teachers-partnerships-and-our-next-strategic-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"School Board Matters: Recognizing Awesome Teachers, Partnerships and Our Next Strategic Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Thursday night, the Board discussed partnerships and the pros and cons of an educational foundation and the timeline for a new ACPS Strategic Plan for 2020-25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Board also celebrated our 18 new and renewed National Board Certified Teachers whose commitment, dedication and hard work has seen them earn one of the top qualifications in the profession.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you didn\u2019t watch the meeting live, you can watch the March 7 Board meeting and all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/Page\/1855\">Board meetings online<\/a> anytime from the comfort of your sofa. T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ake your time to <a href=\"https:\/\/esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us\/public_agendaview.aspx?mtgId=1336\">view the presentations and memos<\/a> as well. Y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ou can watch Board meetings live on ACPS-TV, local cable channel 71 and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/acpstv\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ACPS-TV online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Board Recognition of Kim Wilson as Virginia ACTE Teacher of the Year<\/h3>\n<p>The board recognized T.C. Williams Early Childhood Education Program Coordinator and Teachers for Tomorrow instructor Kimberly Wilson, who was named the Virginia Association of Career and Technical Education Teacher of the Year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more in ACPS Express: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=11922\">T.C. Teacher Wins Career and Technical Teacher of the Year<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alexandriaschoolsva.swagit.com\/play\/03072019-936\/3\/\">Watch the Board acknowledgement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Celebrating Our National Board Certified Teachers<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ACPS celebrated 18 new and renewed National Board Certified Teachers with a reception and acknowledgement by the School Board of the their hard work and commitment. ACPS has an exceedingly high number of teachers who are NBCT teachers and have reached the top level in their professional career. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more in ACPS Express: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=11979\">Teaching\u2019s Highest Accomplishment \u2014 What it Means for the Classroom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alexandriaschoolsva.swagit.com\/play\/03072019-936\/4\/\">Watch the Board acknowledgement<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>School, Business and Community Partnerships Overview and Education Foundation Report<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Board was given an update on the status of our partnerships and received a report on the pros and cons of setting up an educational foundation. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us\/attachments\/7154ae8e-5c1a-4bf6-ba22-13d844365e63.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">View the presentation (PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alexandriaschoolsva.swagit.com\/play\/03072019-936\/9\/\">Watch presentation to School Board and discussion<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Draft Timeline<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This spring, ACPS will begin a process to formulate a new strategic plan for 2020-25. A strategic plan is a roadmap for the work of the division and sets out the priorities for the division going forward. It serves as the guidepost for all plans including school improvement plans, department plans and individual professional development plans. The existing strategic plan will serve as the foundation for building a plan with the focus on equity. An outline of the guiding principles, a summary of future activities and a timeline leading to the implementation of the plan will <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"> go into effect July 1, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">View the presentation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us\/attachments\/99562e9e-5e45-4ab1-95cd-a8d119e5cf1f.pdf\">ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Draft Timeline (PDF)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alexandriaschoolsva.swagit.com\/play\/03072019-936\/10\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch the video of the presentation to the Board<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night&#8217;s School Board meeting included recognition of 18 National Board Certified Teachers, an update on community partnerships, and an overview of the planning process leading to a new strategic plan for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 17:47:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6618"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6657,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions\/6657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}