SESSION 2: Formulating a Shared vision statement

If school heads want different members of the school community to act on the challenge of improved literacy, school heads may need a shared vision statement specifically addressing this matter. This shared vision statement should flow from and align with the DepEd Vision and Mission focusing on quality and learning.

To aid us in formulating a shared vision statement for literacy, consider these characteristics The shared vision statement we are discussing embodies the school community’s beliefs and values about the role literacy plays in the students’ lives and its importance in their future success.

• Embodies school beliefs and values about literacy

• Ensures consistency in understanding and responding to the different challenges

• Makes everyone accountable

When there is consistency, the actions of each group reinforces each other and everyone makes themselves accountable to achieving the vision.

Let's take a look at examples of shared vision statements related to Literacy Instruction.

Can you determine the common features of the samples presented?

Consider these components in determining the commonalities of the sample Shared Vision Statements. These can also aid you when you formulate your Shared Vision Statement later on.

Let’s now try to formulate a proposed shared vision statement for our school. Remember that your vision statement is an interim statement that will still be discussed and validated with your school’s teachers and staff. The value of having this statement is to initiate discussion and get the ball rolling in your school. Otherwise, if there is no statement to react on, your discussion may stray off into different and opposite directions. To facilitate the formulation of your shared vision statement, you may refer to the table and answer the guide questions. When you are done answering, you take your answers out of the table and rewrite into paragraph form. Feel free to revise or expand as you see fit in order to make it understandable to your school when you present this. You may also review your work using the checkbric at the end.

Answer the guide questions per component and then organize it as a paragraph for your Shared Vision Statement. Practice formulating your Shared Vision Statement using the guide questions and see if it satisfies the CHECKBRIC.