Discover Your School’s Shared Vision Readiness: Rate Shared Vision for Readiness in Your School With Your School Leadership Team

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The below activity is designed for your leadership team after you have engaged in the activity yourself.

 

Can our students articulate the skills they will have when they leave school?

STEP 1: This part of the activity should take about 15 minutes.

  1. Describe a student walking across the graduation stage who is ready to successfully transition and navigate the world beyond high school. List characteristics, skills, mindsets, and behaviors of this student.
  2. Which of the characteristics, skills, mindsets, or behaviors you listed have helped you the most through transitions in your own life?
  3. Why? Provide some specific examples.
  4. Watch the video overview of the Four Keys to Readiness.
  5. Which of the following categories best fits the skill you selected as most helpful to you?
    • THINK: Critical thinking and problem solving
    • KNOW: Content knowledge
    • ACT: Ownership of learning and self management
    • GO: Navigating life transitions
  6. INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION: Write down your reflections and/or share them with your coach.
  7. LEADERSHIP TEAM REFLECTION: Share your individual responses and then discuss and work together to agree on ratings as a team. Provide evidence for your rating(s).

STEP 2: This part of the activity should take about 30 minutes.

Score your school on the following two statements and provide evidence for your score.

STATEMENTS

  1. Through our classroom teaching and our extracurricular programs, our students have the opportunity to build their self awareness, self knowledge, and belief in self every period, every day.
  2. Our students can articulate the skills they will have when they leave school; identify how these skills will support their career, college, and future plans; and use these skills to better themselves and their community.

SCALE

1. Not at all
2. Somewhat
3. For the most part
4. Totally

INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION

After reading the examples, adjust, if necessary, the scores you gave your school on the two statements above.

Review the Two Anchors Position Paper, focusing on pages 23-29 that discuss the need for a holistic shared vision for readiness. Build your own argument as to why it is critical to share a consensus of
student outcomes. Write down your reflections and/or share them with your coach.

LEADERSHIP TEAM REFLECTION

After reading the examples, adjust, if necessary, the scores you gave your school on the two statements above.

Share your individual responses and then discuss and work together to agree on ratings as a team. Provide evidence for your rating(s).

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