Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Core Values

If you're looking to grow your leadership in the area of developing, advocating, and enacting a shared mission, vision, and core values for greater impact on student achievement and well-being, you're in the right place!

Reflecting on the progression for this standard and noting where you see yourself can help provide direction for next steps in your learning and development. (Please note progressions should be read with an understanding of the Definitions of Effectiveness).

Then, you can decide which of the resources that follow will be of prioritized value.

Principal Progression

Principal Standard 1.pdf

Superintendent Progression

Superintendent Standard 1.pdf

Module 1 - Laying the Foundation for Vision Work

Facilitation Guide

Slide Deck

Articles & Resources

Standard 1
What will the future require of today's students?

Learning in the Age of Agility: How U.S. Education Can Prepare Students to Solve the Problems of the Future

Content Frame to Process Reading

Module 2- Designing a Mission, Vision, and Core Values

Once you've explored Module 1, you may want to gain additional insight to inform your mission/vision/core values design process by accessing the content and tools under the Additional Resources heading below. Then, you're ready to engage in the work of creating or refining your vision, mission, and values. This work can be accomplished in any number of ways. Following are several considerations:

Portrait of a Graduate (Lead your own process to develop a Portrait of a Graduate by downloading Battelle for Kids Getting Started Guide found midway down the page).
Portrait of a Graduate (Get support in developing your Portrait of a Graduate from Iowa's The Center).
Theory of Action - (This tool from Washington's Center for Educational Leadership can support you in articulating with clarity what you want to accomplish and how you can make it happen).
Learning Acceleration for All: Planning for the Next 3-5 Years (This guide from TNTP includes templates and tools to support refining your vision through a lens of equity and in the context of a pandemic/post-pandemic space).