Strategic Planning

A Journey to the Future was our first Guiding Coalition event at VIDA Middle School. This event took place on December 10th and 11th of 2021. This event centered around presentations from futurists: Michael Fullan and Stephan Vincent-Lancrin. This is where the work began with our Guiding Coalition. It was here we began drafting different themes we would later get community and student feedback to bring to our second event; The Messy Middle.

Futurists Panel

Michael Fullan's Slides

Stephan Vincent-Lancrin's Slides

The Messy Middle was our second Guiding Coalition event which took place on February 11th and 12th of 2022. This event was at the Civic Center in Vista where we did just that, got messy with the data. We began drafting our portraits at this event while looking at the previous drafted themes. From here we had our next set of community feedback as well as student engagement in order to bring it all together at our third and final guiding coalition event.

On April 8th and 9th of 2022 we held our final Guiding Coalition event; Bringing it all Together. This is where we analyzed all of the data and feedback we got from each of our events during the Strategic Planning process. This is where we drafted our Learner, Adult and System Portraits. We took these drafts to our final event, the Community Installation on May 7th, 2022.

Students’ experiences and ideas are vital contributions in launching the refresh process on our vision, mission, and values for education in our district. Almost 200 students from middle and high schools attended the Student Summit event on Thursday, November 4th at the Vista Innovation Center (VIC). During this event, each student reflected on moments in their education that worked for them and those that didn’t, brainstormed the skills needed to meet the future, and identified the qualities of influential adults that have positively shaped their educational experiences. The overwhelming feedback we received will be a significant contribution to this refresh process.

On Friday, February 11th and Saturday, February 12th, the Guiding Coalition members met to begin prototyping ideas for the Graduate, Adult, and System Portraits. The attached themes are a synthesis of the Guiding Coalition's work so far. These themes were then shared with the community in a variety of ways over a few weeks for both feedback on the emerging ideas, and final additional input. These engagement opportunities included a district-wide survey, an open house event, sessions at district meetings, and meetings with students at school sites. The results of these meetings will be shared with the Guiding Coalition at their final meeting in April, and incorporated into their next round of prototyping.

May 7th, 2022
At our Community Installation event, members of the Vista community had the opportunity to guide the direction of VUSD and the future education in Vista. The Strategic Planning Team and Guiding Coalition members came together to analyze data from our Community Engagement Series and, using feedback from community stakeholders, created final draft versions of our Learner, Adult, and System Portraits. At this event, they were asked to share their feedback on the final drafts of the Learner, Adult, and System Portraits which will influence the future of our students, adults, and community for years to come.