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5/6/09 Report on the MRHS Mission Review

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Beginnings Monadnock Regional High School strives to engage all students in a quality education that enables them to develop and meet their individual goals and prepares them to lead satisfying, productive lives as global citizens.

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Beginnings Monadnock Regional High School strives to engage all students in a quality education that enables them to develop and meet their individual goals and prepares them to lead satisfying, productive lives as global citizens.

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Beginnings Monadnock Regional High School will engage all students in a quality education that enables them to develop and meet their individual goals and prepares them to lead satisfying, productive lives as global citizens.

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Beginnings Monadnock Regional High School will provide all students the opportunity to obtain in a quality education that enables them to develop and meet their individual goals and prepares them to lead successful satisfying, productive lives as global productive citizens.

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Team Members Jerry Kuhn Faculty, Chair Mike Brown Faculty Krystal Smith Faculty Joanne Stroshine Faculty Rob Skrocki Students Jon Hanninen Students Brian Pickering - Administration Ken Dassau - Administration Jane Fortson School Board Peter Hughes Community Member Wes Vaughn Community Member

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Initial Meeting February 10 Chalk-Talk protocol Allowed everyone to participate simultaneously without any one individual dominating the conversation Engage Provide Successful Quality education Guarantee Responsibility Definition/Measurability* Quality education Success Competencies Responsibility Engage Purpose Opportunity Ownership Who do we mean? To what level? Who is/are MRHS? The faculty and staff? (Is it a job description for the faculty/staff, or a statement for the broader community?)

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Meeting 2 February 18 Rick Dufour article: Make the Words of Mission Statements Come to Life, shared educational purpose establish high standards of learning address the different abilities of students ensuring their growth high levels of achievement. Do we necessarily agree with Dufour in our practice? Life-long learners was an important idea Mrs. Stroshines List

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Meeting 3 March 4 WARM REACTIONS individual goalsevery student can learn quality educationhigh standards productive citizenspurpose of education opportunityresponsibility on the student successfulpurpose of education willownership on staff allentire population COOL REACTIONS meet/exceedset higher standards opportunityweak statement, sounds as though we give students the right to fail life-long learning or self-directed learnermissing this concept motivating students to reach their potentialmissing this concept alleach? ever-changing worldmissing concept The ending needs a poetic tweak.The rhythm is incomplete. Is one sentence enough?Could we add another sentence to embrace some of the missing concepts?

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Meeting 3 March 4 What if we scrap the whole thing and start from a basic, bare-bones statement? MRHS will provide a quality education for each student. Time to consult

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Meeting 4 March 18 Short version v. a new Modified Long version MRHS will provide all students the opportunity to obtain a quality education and to develop life-long learning skills that will enable them to meet their individual goals and prepare them to lead succesful lives as productive citizens in an ever-changing world. What if we use the short form as a nugget of information, lets look at what pieces we would take from the longer proposal to add to it, and what these additions might inherently add to or detract from the meaning we were seeking to convey.

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Then, from the students: MRHS is a community of life-long learners dedicated to academic, social and personal excellence. Based on one of the missions on Mrs. Stroshines earlier lists. Meeting 4 March 18 It is a shorter statement It is easier to remember and reflect on It references the goals of the education we are imparting It removes the debate concerning will and strive It resolves the concern over quality vs.excellent BUT: is it plagiarism? Time to consult again

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Meeting 5 April 1 Reports on discussions Robs report from the students How do we create a fundamental statement that is noticeably different from a similar statement? Maybe we can rebuild a more concise statement from the original mission? Are we jumping too far? How will the faculty react to this?

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Meeting 6 April 15 Time to push on (Anonymous donation: At MRHS we learn stuff) Two Questions Should the object of the mission be curriculum or students? Student-centered Does the mission statement describe what we do or what we aspire to? .our reach should exceed our grasp.

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The community of Monadnock Regional High School is dedicated to engaging all students in personal, civic, and academic growth. Meeting 6 April 15