Anchorage's+Strategic+Plan

We are guided by our Six Year Strategic Plan. We do updates and evaluations of the Six Year Plan yearly. All instructional areas do a six year plan, and we get together with each other and with the school board to ensure collaborative efforts. This is the current Six-Year plan.


 * Special Announcement: ** The Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has been working with the ASD to determine the mutual benefit of the ASD serving as a Collaborating District in their new strategic initiative to support districtwide SEL programming. [|CASEL] is in the process of selecting six to eight school districts among the 200 largest in the country in which, working collaboratively with district leaders, we will strengthen and support districtwide SEL implementation, including action research to document effective strategies and student outcomes.

Project Connect builds a path of support for military impacted students, grades 7 through 12, related to the significant academic, social and emotional needs that come from being a part of the military culture – due primarily to transition, mobility, and deployment issues. Read further at []
 * New Project: ** We are excited to be the recipients of a Department of Defense Education Activity grant.


 * Research: ** We are involved in an exciting research project co-sponsored by the [|Devereux Center for Resilient Children] and the Anchorage School District. Read the published results of the [|findings] so far.

The most commonly used SEL programs in our district are the [|Resolving Conflicts Creatively Program], the [|Great Body Shop], and the [|Aggressors/Victims/Bystanders Program]. Most of our elementary schools have also adopted a [|Positive School-wide Discipline plan].

Our work is strongly supported through our [|Safe and Drug Free Schools Department]. They have been strong supporters of Positive Youth Development and building assets for our youth for years. Our SEL work is an offshoot of the assets work happening in the district for more than ten years. We see SEL as a way of building assets in kids. For more information, see the [|Search Institutes 40 Developmental Assets].