We are proud to share with the entire community our Quality Profile, our annual accountability report that gives our community a clear and transparent look at what’s happening in our schools and with our students. The Quality Profile aligns with our 2019-2024 Strategic Plan, which identifies a focused set of priorities that support our position as a national leader in education and continue our focus on challenging and supporting every student, every step of the way.
Whole learning is our core business - academics. We are building on the district’s long-running philosophy of educating the whole child by providing rigorous academic content and real-world learning experiences that will give our students an even stronger foundation to serve, lead and succeed in life.
Student and staff well-being is critical to fostering a safe and inclusive environment where our students can thrive. Students and staff who aren’t well won’t be able to learn or teach to their fullest potential — and that is why well-being is critical to the academic success of our students.
Continuous improvement is the foundation of the strategic plan. This is the idea of getting better at getting better — and this is threaded through the Quality Profile, just as it is threaded through everything we do in our schools.
These priorities are all grounded in our mission, vision and values:
Our mission: Challenge and support every student, every step of the way
Our vision: Uniquely accomplished students prepared to serve, lead and succeed
Our values: Start with Heart, Strength in Team and Contagious Drive
We believe it is critically important to continue to provide our community with the Quality Profile to measure our progress toward our strategic priorities. If you have any suggestions, please complete the form available at www.uaschools.org/qualityprofile.aspx.
Well-being update
Academics are our main business, but we also know that students who aren’t well can’t learn. That’s why student and staff well-being is one of the priority areas identified in our district’s strategic plan.
Upper Arlington Schools is uniquely equipped to address the needs of our students thanks to a network of full-time mental health and physical health services in our schools. We are excited to expand on this network by partnering with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Behavioral Health Services and Office of Student Life to provide access to school-based behavioral health services to our students and families. Through this partnership, students and families will have access to two onsite psychotherapists who will offer both in-person and virtual services, as well as priority access for clinical services. These experts will also work hand-in-hand with our school counselors, related staff and mental health professionals through our partnership with Syntero to ensure an overall continuity of services for our students.
By expanding our toolkit and partnering with the experts from The Ohio State University, we will be better able to meet the unique needs of our students to ensure we are supporting them every step of their academic journey here in Upper Arlington.
Paul Imhoff, Ed.D., is superintendent of Upper Arlington Schools. You can follow him on Twitter at @imhoffpaul.