Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Staff Vision AND Mission Resources


Here are some resources that can assist in your development of a Mission and Vision Statement(s):

School, Education   (Where are we?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRTF4eLtzFs

Mission Statement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6An_b_4aOo

Vision Statement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSPvXCkaw0Q


Transforming Schools Power Point (Traditional + vs Professional Learning Community)

With the help of a graphic organizer, complete the assignments below.

Mission Statement Assignment
*For the mission statement think about what the school is already doing and pick three target areas that the school should emphasize
*Utilizing these areas (keywords) add power words to create three phrases
*Combine/edit these phrases into an all encompassing statement

Vision Statement Assignment
*For the vision statement think about what the school is hoping to do and pick three target areas that the school should emphasize
*Utilizing these areas (keywords) add power words to create three phrases (
*Combine/edit these phrases into an all encompassing statement

Reminders
*The final mission and vision can be 1 statement or 2 separate statements.
*Consider that the statement(s) should not be hard to understand and should be easy to remember.

How to post your response:
*Brainstorm with the chart paper provide but also select a designee to type your group responses (recommend typing in word).
* Locate the blog post comment box
*Type and/or copy/paste the assignment into the comment box (submit mission assignment and vision assignment seperately
*Under comment as, select anonymous
*Click Publish
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12 comments:

  1. Thacker Group
    Mission and Vision Statement

    Generated Ideas:
    Vision and Mission encompasses all subject areas:
    ~ service- mission
    ~ academics- mission
    ~ Creativity- vision
    ~ Socialization
    ~ Whole Child (nurturing environment- vision
    ~ Integrated curriculum (previous school mission)
    ~ High Intensity Learning (previous school mission)
    ~ Opportunity
    ~ Inspire a passion for learning
    ~ passionate learners
    ~ use simple words that can be understood across all grace levels
    ~ First and Best Choice (vision)


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    1. Good ideas but too long. Needs to be short where children can understand and parents are proud of. Teachers can focus on one central main idea

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  2. Group 1. Fabulous (it is my group)

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    1. Empowering today's students to become tomorrow's leaders through academies, service, and fitness.

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  3. Vision: Empowering the mind, body, and soul of our school and community.

    Bumper sticker: mlk: Inspiring the mind, body, and soul

    Mission: Creating lifelong learners
    Body:
    Soul: Inspiring to serve others; impacting the world around.

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    1. Great mission statement! Easy for children to understand. I would love for this to be our mission statement

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    2. Mission thought:
      Body, Mind: An Opportunity to learn, grow, and serve well.

      With Soul: An opportunity to learn, grow, and serve well. DW

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    3. An opportunity to learn, grow, live and serve well.

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  4. Group one- 3. I like the power word empowering

    Group two- 5. I love the short and sweet statement. It covers everything but is short enough to remember. The students and parents can get behind this statement.

    Group three- 1 no statement yet

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  5. Ideas - Generated
    *Vision
    City Year
    Second Baptist
    *Umbrella words that encompasses all subjects
    *Creativity and socialization
    *whole child/nuture

    *Integrated learning
    High Intensity
    *Give students lots of opportunities to be successful
    *We want to inspire a passion for learning
    *We want to inspire a passion for learning
    we want our learners to become productive students

    *Passionate learners (leaders/teachers)
    *Use simple words (first/best)

    *Mission
    *Vision

    *Students have opportunity

    *Academics
    *Loyalty

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  6. Can this be grouped together into just one statement?

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