Workbook 1.1: Why Start with Vision?
William R. Penuel; Tiffany Neill; and Deb L. Morrison
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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.