Data Doc Analysis 2 - Mission & Vision Statements

Our Mission

The mission of the Terrell Independent School District, a community of unique, diverse people, is to provide an exceptional learning experience in a safe, nurturing environment, challenging our students to achieve academic excellence and to be responsible, productive, and ethical members of a changing society.

I believe this is the district mission statement, I called up to the school to confirm this. A pretty interesting call. The first person I talked to didn’t seem to know what a mission or vision statement were. They were happy to transfer me to someone they thought might be able to give me a better answer though. The new person confirmed what I have above is the district mission statement but that was all they had. She didn’t know about the vision statement though. I told her I found the motto online and asked if that was what they were using. She didn’t know what the motto was so I read it to her but she didn’t recognize it.

The mission of the Terrell Independent School District, a community of unique, diverse people,- this part is just describing who TISD is and sees themselves as. I don’t think it needs to be included in the mission statement because it isn’t a mission, it is just who they are.

is to provide an exceptional learning experience in a safe, nurturing environment, challenging our students to– this is the meat of the mission I think. Provide an exceptional learning experience is something you do, the same with nurturing environment, something you need to provide, and finally challenging students, again something you need to achieve.

achieve academic excellence and to be responsible, productive, and ethical members of a changing society. – this is the result section, what they expect to happen if they achieve the last segments goals.

For a rewrite, I would just edit out the first part leaving the following

Our mission - is to provide an exceptional learning experience in a safe, nurturing environment, challenging our students to achieve academic excellence and to be responsible, productive, and ethical members of a changing society.

I think that keeps exactly with what they wanted to say and removes the part that aren’t necessary.

As I said there were some confusion at the school as to if there was a vision statement so I am using the motto.

Motto: 100% of JFK students will learn and achieve every day!

As for using this as a vision statement I think it works great. It is short to the point and gives an example of what needs to happen every day.

Overall from what I understand from the readings though the articles these are backwards. The mission statement should be short term goals (1-3) years where the vision statement should be longer term end results.

So with the renaming they would look like this

Our vision - is to provide an exceptional learning experience in a safe, nurturing environment, challenging our students to achieve academic excellence and to be responsible, productive, and ethical members of a changing society.

Our mission -100% of JFK students will learn and achieve every day!

I am wondering if I didn’t get them confused myself but as I reread it I think short term is mission and long term is vision so that should be correct.

edited mission/ vision after classmate suggestions

Vision- With the use of technology students will achieve academic excellence and promote responsible, productive, and ethical behavior.

Mission - Increase the use of technology for every student, every day for 21st century learning experiences.