NRHS Core Values and Mission Statement Process, Document, and Moving Forward
Process Timeline: - September 2011: Staff introduced to concepts of Core Values/Mission/Expectations for NEASC. - November 2011: Staff begin conversing about possible mission language and looking at the work of other schools. - February 2012: NEASC Steering Committee outlines timeline for Mission process. - April 2012: Professional Development session: focused on developing and prioritizing values and expectations, after consulting current research.
-May to August 2012: Community Survey - rank ordered the values / expectations expressed by staff. Some 200 community members responded. -August 2012: Professional Development session: Staff met in departments to provide narratives to describe core values in greater detail. -October 2012: Student survey: 300 students responded to questions such as "Classes are most meaningful when..." -November 2012: Student focus group: Reviewed survey responses and provided narrative descriptions.
-December 6, 2012: Community Forum: More than 40 stakeholders reviewed feedback from staff and students and current research. Groups identified values (Communicate, Achieve, Relate, Engage) that were echoed by all groups. -December 10-12, 2012: Student feedback on core values solicited from over 250 students. -December 12, 2012: Faculty and Student Working Groups: Conversations about descriptors to explain core values in context and identification of underlying core value of Integrity. -December 21, 2012: Steering Committee discussed drafts to be presented to faculty.
-January 3, 2013: NRHS faculty meeting: - Departments met to select a preamble statement and vote on specific language around each Core Value. -January 18, 2013: Steering Committee finalized two drafts to be presented to faculty for vote. -February 7, 2013: Faculty approved draft presented to you.
We at Nashoba believe INTEGRITY is our foundation. We strive to make it a visible part of everything we do when we: C OMMUNICATE: with honesty and respect, clarity and effective purpose, guided by acceptance and open-mindedness A CHIEVE : through consistent hard work and motivation, striving to realize high standards, to persevere over adversity by fostering the ability to innovate and adapt to change R ELATE: as a local and global citizen, practicing empathy and compassion, growing as an individual by finding common ground and appreciating differences E NGAGE: by taking initiative, participating with passion and enthusiasm, collaborating to create something bigger than each of us We expect our students to aspire to these values. We expect our staff to live these values. We expect our larger community to support these values. We ask all to CARE, make the most of our time at Nashoba, and OWN IT!
Moving Forward: ● Pending your approval, the Core Values and Mission should become a ubiquitous, unifying call to action at NRHS ● This document will provide foundational principles that drives teaching, learning, programming, and policy making over the next 10 years. It is our hope that this will be a living document, not just something hung on the wall.
Moving Forward ● Plans to integrate it for the remainder of 2012-13: ○ Focus point of student and faculty recognition. ○ Efforts to make it visible in physical environment (murals). ○ Focus of discussions around student behavior (discipline referral form). ● Pending approval of budget requests, we plan to use those resources to make these core values and the mission universal: ○ banners ○ student contests ○ school culture accessories
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