3 Ways to Create or Revise Your Vision to Include a Positive Culture of Shared Learning

Show Notes: https://learning-project.com/2023/04/14/episode2/

Having a school culture and vision where all the pieces, teachers, admin, parents and students are focused on the same thing is more challenging than we may think.  In this episode we discuss the three buckets that are essential to develop a shared vision that focuses on the kids! This episode is a great place to start if you need to shift the culture of your school, teacher team, or grade level.

What you will get from this episode: 

• Three Areas to Create a Comprehensive School Vision 

• Academics 

• Social Emotional Learning 

• Character Development 

• Processes for creating a shared vision 

• Use all layers of the system to develop a shared vision 

• Once the vision is in place, create a branding and marketing strategy to share the vision 

• Create an action plan to implement, and monitor the vision.

• Academics 

• Align your curriculum to the include the 21st century skills including communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. 

• Focus on one to five instructional strategies to collectively train each teacher and plan and collaborate to develop lessons. Instructional strategies can include things like close reading, academic language development, and student collaboration strategies.

• Social Emotional Learning 

• Create systems that include morning meetings, mindfulness moments, and physical activity.

• Character Development 

• Directly teach students character traits that you want them to exhibit

• Treat all people with kindness, dignity and respect