Workbook 1.1: Why Start with Vision?

William R. Penuel; Tiffany Neill; and Deb L. Morrison

STEM Teaching Tools: highlight the purpose (funnels…), process for identifying problems & opportunities, co-authoring process, features of briefs and OER PD modules, centering of equity, reception & uses

It starts a lot of time with standards implementation, but that’s not really enough or even the starting place.
Vision is an ideal of what we want teaching and learning to look like.
Sources of vision:
- Framework
- Our own life experience and as leaders what we care about
- What others care about, including and especially those not always invited to the table to define goals for education
When you start with a vision, and develop a collective vision centered on students, no matter what struggles you face, you are driving toward more than just standards or program implementation
Keeps you centered and motivated/energized for action
Start with the ideal, it is what we get behind, ideal classroom from the survey showed us this.
It’s got to be more than something the leader holds and holds everyone else accountable to. The leader does need to embody it — through what they do, through the passion they express to others.

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