Vision and Beliefs

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Vision and Beliefs

• Clarifying and Defining Shared Vision and Beliefs

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Through Your Eyes

• In the following pictures, what evidence do you
  see that depicts what individuals value?
  
• Values are driven by beliefs.

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What Do You Stand For?

• If you dont know what you stand for,
• youll fall for anything.

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Bring Our Beliefs Into Focus
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Belief Group Brainstorm

• As a group
• Talk from your heart, What do we mean by this
  belief?
  
• Address, What would it look like for West Gate
  K-8 or your classroom?
  
• Discuss, What key words or ideas come to mind
  that speak to this belief?
  
• Jot down ideas on sticky notes

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Nurturing adults are a key to impacting student
achievement.
Consider the students point of view
Treating others with respect
Create a safe environment
Adults as role models
Build relationships
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Belief Group Brainstorm

• As a group
• Talk from your heart, What do we mean by this
  belief?
  
• Address, What would it look like for West Gate
  K-8 or your classroom?
  
• Discuss, What key words or ideas come to mind
  that speak to this belief?
  
• Jot down ideas on sticky notes

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Gallery Walk

• One member stays at the belief
• Visit the other beliefs
• Talk about what you see
• Time

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Your Turn

• Discuss
• How will we do this work with our colleagues?
• Time?
• Next meeting date?

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Vision and Beliefs

• Session 2

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Unpack the Belief

• When I say go, reform the belief groups.
• Using the notes, begin to unpack the belief using
  bulleted statements.
  
• Capture the essence of the sticky notes.
• Use the Working Papers for the District Beliefs
  and the next slide to help guide the work.
  
• While generating the statements, avoid being so
  specific as to limit the scope of the belief.
  
• Avoid wordsmithing at this time.
• Put your ideas on the chart paper to form your
  product.
  
• You have 45 minutes.

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Nurturing adults are a key to impacting student
achievement.

• Adults speak to students using a tone of
  decency.
  
• Students feel comfortable to take risks knowing
  that they will be protected from adverse
  consequences for initial failures.
  
• Adults act as mentors, coaches and models for
  students.
  
• What is it like to be this child? underlies all
  that we do.
  
• Rules without relationships is rebellion in the
  making.

Create a safe environment
Consider the students point of view
Build relationships
Treating others with respect
Adults as role models
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Break

• Before break, please post your product.
• 1, 2 3 post by 1
• 4, 5 6 post by 2
• 7, 8 9 post by 3
• 10, 11 12 post by 4
• 13, 14 15 post by 5

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Vision Beliefs

• Session 3

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Sticky Graffiti

• Pick a belief to begin (other than your own).
• After you read and respond (if needed) to the set
  of beliefs, move to the right.
  
• Spend approximately 4 minutes per belief.
• You have 16 minutes total.

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Nurturing adults are a key to impacting student
achievement.
Does that mean no Fs?

• Adults speak to students using a tone of
  decency.
  
• Students feel comfortable to take risks knowing
  that they will be protected from adverse
  consequences for initial failures.
  
• Adults act as mentors, coaches and models for
  students.
  
• What is it like to be this child? underlies all
  that we do.
  
• Rules without relationships is rebellion in the
  making.

Does this mean that failure is not an option?
What if we extend this beyond academics?
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Sticky Graffiti

• Pick a belief to begin (other than your own).
• After you read and respond (if needed) to the set
  of beliefs, move to the right.
  
• Spend approximately 4 minutes per belief.
• You have 30 minutes total.

Does this mean?
How about
What if ?
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Merging Beliefs

• Go to your original poster.
• Introduce yourselves.
• Read the sticky notes together.
• Begin to combine the two charts.
• Find similarities.
• Select the strongest and clearest indicators of
  the belief.
  
• Consider any graffiti feedback.
• Wordsmith the bulleted statement(s) and record on
  the new chart paper.