The past few weeks our cohort has been exploring vision and mission statements for schools. Honestly, prior to this course, I never put too much thought into vision/mission statements. I would look at a school's prior to an interview to learn their culture and vocabulary; but they were never studied much as professionals.
Two things really stood out to me as we did this study.
1) There are bad mission statements out there. I thought schools would all use good examples, but there are truly some statements that are sad and make me, now, question the state of the education provided through them.
2) How important wording is! I have learned in my adult years that there is power in words. One word that stood out to me the most, enough to talk to my husband about it, was the word 'citizen.' I am going to teach students regardless, if they are a United States Citizen or not ..... so, stating in a mission statement "digital citizen" might be off putting, or out of reach to some. Just a thought worth exploring.
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