About the Vision, Values, Goals, and Guardrails (VVGG)
Mission Statement
The mission statement is how the District will achieve its vision:
Every day we provide each and every student the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21st century.
Values
The community’s global non-negotiables that must be honored while in pursuit of the vision
Student-Centered: We put students' needs first with a focus on the whole child.
Social Justice: We stand with those who are most impacted by systems of oppression and actively change those systems within our district.
Diversity-Driven: We respect and seek to understand each person to be an inclusive and anti-racist district.
Fearless: We persist through challenges with humility, transparency, and a growth mindset.
United: We celebrate and build on each other's strengths and differences to collectively achieve excellence as a district.
Goals
The community’s mid-term (5-year) expectations for what SFUSD students will know and be able to do.
Third-grade literacy: The percentage of ALL third-grade students reading at grade level as measured by state tests (SBAC ELA) will increase from 52% proficiency rate in October 2022 to 70% proficiency by October 2027.
8th-grade math: The percentage of ALL eighth-grade students performing math at grade level as measured by the state tests (SBAC Math) will increase from 42% proficiency rate in October 2022 to 65% proficiency by October 2027.
College/career readiness: The percentage of all high school 12th graders who are “college/career ready“ as defined by the California Department of Education will increase from 57.5% in June 2020 to 70% by June 2027.
Guardrails
- Effective Decision-Making: Major decisions must start with meaningful input from affected parents/guardians, students, and staff.
- Serving The Whole Child: Every action must support students’ academic, social‑emotional, identity, physical, mental, and ethical growth.
- Curriculum and Instruction: Curriculum must stay excellent, engaging, student‑centered, culturally responsive, and differentiated for all learners.
- Resource Allocation: Funds must be transparently allocated to meet baseline needs at every school and correct inequities.
- Strategic Partnerships: Collaboration with the City of San Francisco, agencies, nonprofits, philanthropies, and businesses must be actively supported.
Interim Goals and Guardrails
The Board approves the Vision, Values, Goals, and Guardrails (VVGG), and the superintendent identifies interim goals and guardrails to measure progress toward the goals and guardrails. The Board does not approve the interims.
Even after the goals and guardrails are adopted, the interim goals and guardrails may be modified based on the following:
An assessment of the potential effectiveness of interim goals predicting success for the goals Possible updates to our internal assessment system to ensure we have the best measures Feedback from staff regarding the interim measures
Graduate Profile
The Graduate Profile serves as the anchor for our vision and identifies the knowledge, skills, dispositions and behaviors required by our 21st century world.
LEARN ABOUT THE GRADUATE PROFILEWhere We're Going
Vision 2025 serves as our compass, the strategic plan our roadmap.
Transform Learning. Transform Lives.
Our strategic plan charts the course toward our vision and requires us to further pursue innovative practices and system changes that will accelerate results for students from PreK through 12th grade and beyond.
Vision 2025
In a city and world that is constantly changing, Vision 2025 articulates the shifts our system will take to ensure that we prepare our graduates to live, thrive and succeed in San Francisco and beyond.
Who We Are
As we work toward changing the system so that it truly is able to serve all students, we must have a strong set of core values and core beliefs that will guide us through the challenges that will come our way.
Core Values
What values unite us as a broader SFUSD team?
Our core values define who we are collectively and how we work together.
Service Standards
Our 9 HUG standards help us consistently provide high-quality service to our students, colleagues, families and community.
Districtwide Plans and Initiatives
African American Achievement and Leadership Initiative (AAALI)
AAALI holds SFUSD departments and city agencies accountable for providing a high-quality educational experience to African American students and provides a platform for African American students, parents and community leadership.
Digital District Plan
The promise of technology to positively impact the learning and lives of our students is clear. The Digital District Plan clarifies how SFUSD is taking a leadership role to innovate educational equity and
excellence for all our students.
Arts Education Master Plan
The Arts Education Master
Plan is our blueprint for integrating the arts into each student's daily curriculum.