The BOOST initiative is a targeted Granite School District effort designed to provide intensified support to a small number of schools facing the most significant instructional and academic challenges. Schools participating in BOOST receive additional leadership capacity, instructional coaching, and focused district-level support aimed at strengthening teaching and learning and accelerating student growth. While BOOST is not a districtwide initiative, it reflects Granite’s broader commitment to aligning resources, structures, and support where they are most needed to improve instructional effectiveness and student outcomes across the system.

Across the district, Granite also extends its sincere appreciation to all teachers for the disciplined, professional work occurring daily through PLC collaboration, engagement with instructional coaching, and thoughtful planning focused on student learning. This collective commitment to strong instructional practice is central to improving student achievement and is firmly supported by educational research. Anita Archer underscores this importance, noting that “The quality of instruction students receive is one of the most powerful influences on their academic success.” Granite’s focus on instructional improvement honors the expertise, effort, and professionalism teachers bring to this work every day.

This week let’s recognize Angelee Luther, principal of Oakwood Elementary. Here’s what one of her educators had to say about her:

“Angelee works tirelessly to support so many aspects of our school. She is here early mornings and into late nights, making schedules, creating treats for teachers, behavior incentives for students, and putting in the work to determine how to best serve our students. She is unlike any other administrator that I have worked with before; in that she is willing to have hard conversations. I am always impressed with how assertive she is but does it with a smile and a willingness to find strategies that work for different teachers so that they can reach their personal best so that they get the best out of their students. With students with special needs, she works to support them in finding a class in the general education classrooms to meet their needs socially and academically with their peers of the same grade. It is wonderful to have so much guidance and support and also someone who will celebrate my successes and keep me focused on the next goal mark.”