The Woodland Park School District RE‑2 Board of Education on [date not specified] approved the district’s Unified Improvement Plan after hearing highlights from a recent staff climate and culture survey.

Ginger Slocum, interim superintendent, told the board that 54.8 percent of respondents said they felt better than at the end of last year, 16.1 percent said they felt much better and 20.4 percent said they felt worse. "There is a huge burnout" at the junior‑senior high school she said, calling teacher workload and scheduling disruptions the district’s most urgent concerns.

The board approved a Unified Improvement Plan that targets math achievement as the top student performance priority. Slocum described two principal strategies: implementing high‑quality Tier 1 math instruction with aligned curricular materials and building strong Tier 2 systems and MTSS (multi‑tiered systems of support) teams to intervene for students with gaps. "Our first major improvement strategy is high quality Tier 1 instruction in math," Slocum said.

The plan also addresses development and monitoring of individualized plans for exceptional learners, using last year’s gifted and special‑education audits to shape interventions and staff development. Slocum said district staff will continue aligning curriculum K–12 where feasible and pursue grants tied to the UIP; she flagged the consolidated grant (Title I and others) as a funding vehicle for some interventionists and materials.

Board members moved to approve the UIP and the motion carried by roll call. The approval now allows district staff to finalize grant attachments and begin the action‑plan monitoring called for in the UIP.

What's next: the superintendent said staff and principals will continue work on implementation, including scheduling math alignment meetings and convening MTSS teams to begin targeted interventions.