The mission statement of a local (successful) high school is: Inspiring students to achieve extraordinary success.
The mission statement my high school has more than 6 times the number of words in it, sort of this: Our High School will foster an environment, with a focus on excellence and achievement, which promotes learning and holds the students, teachers, and community accountable for achievement. Our goal is graduation and we will attain that goal through a standards-based education system built on rigor, literacy, and relevance in our curriculum.
Which do you think the children will remember and take to heart?
How important are mission statements?
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Not important at all. They are all done for PR. the first one is much better, of course--Short and to the point.
What I liked best about the first (since I haven't seen the point of them since they were introduced) is I heard it when a student said it to me. It was something THEY had internalized.
Our districts motto is "kids first...every student, every day."
no comment on it.
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