Building a Bridge to the Future

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Building a Bridge to the Future

• Pine Richland School District
• Strategic Planning Leadership Group
• November 16, 2005

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Building a Bridge

• Agenda
• Introduction
• Mission Statement
• Define PRSD mission
• Break
• Beliefs
• Review PRSD beliefs
• Vision
• Next Steps

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Why are we here?
Mission, Vision and Beliefs
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Mission Statement as Fad

• http//www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career
  /bin/ms.cgi
• What takes a mission statement and turns it into
  a joke?

We will revolutionize and re-paradigm our
business to dominate our industry to maximize
profits
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Definition

• Druckers definition
• Short and sharply focused
• Clear and easily understood
• Defines why
• Provides direction for doing the right things
• Inspires our commitment
• Who are our customers?
• Why do we exist?

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PDE Definition

• The mission is a brief, clear and compelling
  purpose statement that truly serves to unify and
  organizations efforts.
• Tangiblevalue drivenhighly focused
• Should reflect the schools purpose
• eSP Training Guide, page 12

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Purpose of the process

• Help managers avoid
• Moving in too many directions
• Avoiding inertia
• First you have to know
• Current location
• A view of where you are heading
• An understanding of when it is time to shift
• http//www.csuchico.edu/mgmt/strategy/module1/sld0
  15.htm - Richard Irwin

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Mission vs Vision Statements

• William Drohan, Gale Group 1999
• Mission Statement
• Guides current, critical, strategic decision
  making
• 1030AM
• Vision Statement
• Pushes the organization toward some future goal
  or achievement
• We will put a man on the moon in this decade

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Potential Model

• Break down mission into its component parts
• Key Market
• Contribution
• Distinction
• To provide any customer a means of moving people
  and things up, down and sideways over short
  distances with higher reliability than any
  similar enterprise in the world
• http//www.csuchico.edu/mgmt/strategy/module1/sld0
  15.htm - Richard Irwin

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The Importance of Language

• We believe all kids can learn
• based on their ability.
• if they take the opportunity to learn.
• and we will accept responsibility for ensuring
  their growth.
• and we will establish high standards of learning
  that we expect all students to achieve.
• How does each district respond to kids who cant
  learn
• Professional Learning Communities at Work pp59-61

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Adopt Criteria

• How should we validate the strength of our
  proposed statement?

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Bad Mission Statements

• Lehman Brothers
• We are One Firm, defined by our unwavering
  commitment to our clients, our shareholders, and
  each other. Our mission is to build unrivaled
  partnerships with and value for our clients,
  through the knowledge, creativity, and dedication
  of our people, leading to superior returns for
  our shareholders.
• OSHA
• OSHAs mission is to assure the safety and health
  of Americas workers by setting and enforcing
  standards providing training, outreach and
  education establishing partnerships and
  encouraging continual improvement in workplace
  safety and health.
• Sun Microsystems
• To create the technologies and fuel the
  communities that power the Participation Age.

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Good Mission Statements

• US Army
• The Armys Mission is to fight and win our
  Nations wars by providing prompt, sustained land
  dominance across a full range of military
  operations and spectrum of conflict in support of
  combatant commanders.
• Wal-mart
• To offer all of the fine customers in our
  territories all of their household needs in a
  manner in which they continue to think of us
  fondly.

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Better Samples

• University of Miami
• The University of Miamis mission is to educate
  and nurture students, to create knowledge, and to
  provide service to our community and beyond.
  Committed to excellence and proud of the
  diversity of our University family, we strive to
  develop future leaders of our nation and the
  world.
• The Boy Scouts
• The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to
  prepare young people to make ethical and moral
  choices over their lifetimes by instilling in
  them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
• PSU Athletics
• Consistent with the Universitys mission,
  Intercollegiate Athletics strives for excellence
  by offering students model programs to develop
  meaningful standards of scholarship, leadership,
  community service and sportslike conduct within
  the educational and social environment of The
  Pennsylvania State University.

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Best Samples

• Alpha Phi Omega
• Prepare campus and community leaders through
  service.
• Google
• Googles mission is to organize the worlds
  information and make it universally accessible
  and useful.

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Current PR Mission Statement

• The mission of the Pine-Richland School District
  is to educate students to become self-motivated,
  independent learners who realize their potential.
  As a catalyst for the personal quest of
  life-long learning, we will prepare students to
  participate successfully in and contribute to an
  ever changing world. We will accomplish this
  through excellence in teaching and a quality
  educational program which appreciates the
  uniqueness of each student and promotes mutual
  respect, in a secure, warm and caring environment.

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Proposed Statements
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Break
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Evaluate Mission Statements
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Examples

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
  everywhere.
• M. L.  King, Jr.
• I still believe, in spite of everything, that
  people are truly good at heart
• Anne Frank
• I don't believe it has to be this way
• John Mellencamp

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PDE Definition

• List of fundamental core values or truths and
  operating principles that are shared across the
  organization.
• What is true about the conditions for learning?
• How do our students learn best?
• What is the role of the family?

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Beliefs

• Mission why or for what purpose
• Vision what it might become
• Beliefs how it becomes reality
• Professional Learning Communities at Work, Pg 88

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Current Beliefs

• See attached sheet

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Suggested New Beliefs
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Vision

• Far better is it to dare mighty thingsthan to
  take rank with those poor spirits who neither
  enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in
  the gray twilight that knows not victory nor
  defeat.
• Theodore Roosevelt

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Vision

• Twenty years from now, you will be more
  disappointed by the things you didn't do than by
  the things you did do.  So throw off the
  bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch
  the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. 
  discover.
• Mark Twain

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Vision Statement

• Reminder
• Vision Statement
• Pushes the organization toward some future goal
  or achievement
• We will put a man on the moon in this decade

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PDE Definition

• A vision is a specific description of what it
  will be like when the mission is achieved.
• A vision is a mental image.
• It must be articulated in terms that everyone can
  understand and see in the same way.
• eSP Training Manual, page 12

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Vision elements

• Linked to mission and beliefs
• Bold
• Future Focused
• Present Tense
• Inspirational
• YOUR TOTAL FOCUS
• Strategic Planning Seminar given by C. Schwahn

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PRSD Vision Statement
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