Rewriting your District Vision, Mission, and Core Values with Equity in Mind

Purpose & objective

Participants will leave this session being able to run a district wide committee to rewrite vision, mission, or core value statements of the district with equity in mind. They will see the tools used to engage a committee who had members both in and out of a school building. I will present challenges that occurred from creating the committee, having to recruit to have representation, the technology challenges as we are a building without WiFi, how we used a hybrid model to engage all members, and the various technology tools used to encourage participants to share their thoughts and collaborate on writing a vision. I will talk about the various models used to support the committee and activities to engage the committee through the vision writing process. Our work also led us to create a mission statement and core values list because all three are linked to the process. I will share the way we rolled the vision out to the school community, seeking feedback. I will also include how we presented the vision to the school committee and the vision roll out plan. This process included voices from students, community members, and staff.

Outline

Engage audience to see who is doing this work or planning to do the work (2 minutes)
Introduction and explaining the why(5 min)
Overview of Google Site Creation (10 min)
Engaging a Committee with various tech tools (25 min)
(This time will show Sites, Slides, Docs with drop downs for agendas, Jams, Wakelet Sharing Space).
I will use peer to peer interaction to engage the audience during this time
Challenges Faced and Actions taken (10 min)
Q and A (5-8 min)

Supporting research

Meetings Matter: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations by Paul Axtell

https://www.umassglobal.edu/news-and-events/blog/how-to-craft-school-vision-statements

Dr. Kalise Wornum
Dr. Corliss Brown Thompson

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LdJKGfi4-lvgUJwNneRXaVb0aIngrh-a/view