Vision Performance Activity

As a prospective instructional leader, create a vision for a school that will guide you in your
work with teachers. This vision should serve as a pathway for you to follow as you lead teachers
in the improvement of instruction that leads to greater depths of student achievement Your
vision must demonstrate that you have the capacity to collaboratively evaluate, develop, and
communicate your vision. Make sure your vision has a core set of values and priorities that
enhances teaching and learning. NELP Standards addressed: 1.1, 1.2, 4.2, 5.1, and 5.2

Your school vision statement must include discrete sections on how you would go about
developing, articulating, implementing, stewarding, and involving the wider community. Use
literature from the course and other resources that are available to you to support your
statement. You can make this assignment more relevant by talking with several colleagues and
community members about the school or organizational vision. Talk with a variety of leader
colleagues about their visions for their schools. Reflect on possible committee work that relates
to vision development, articulation, implementation, stewardship and/or community
involvement. Find your school district’s strategic plan or your school’s improvement plan and
read it. How is it developed and maintained and to what end?

As general guidance, your vision plan should be approximately 12 pages of text, excluding a
cover page, abstract page, and reference page(s). There should be several citations to support
the ideas you present in your statement. There is not a specific number of citations required,
but as general guidance approximately 8-10 references appearing in the reference page of the
manuscript would be adequate. Use standard APA 7th Edition formatting.

Below are 5 components that must be addressed in your vision statement:

1. Develop: Define vision and discuss the role of the educational leader in developing this
vision that is designed to reflect the core values and priorities of the school. Focus on
ideals and aspirations that would constitute a direction for change, improvement, and
success for students. (NELP 1.1)

2. Articulate: How can you as a leader best articulate components of the vision, and what
leadership processes are necessary to effectively articulate the vision? Focus on
communication strategies, the use of important data to convey a message, and how you
“make the case” for the vision. (NELP 1.2)

3. Implement: Identify and discuss specific strategies that may be used by a leader to
promote the implementation of a shared vision. Focus on initiatives that motivate staff,
students, and families to strive toward the vision. How will initiatives be carried out?
(NELP 1.2)

4. Steward/Maintain: Provide some specific strategies for stewarding the vision leading to
a climate of continuous improvement of academic and nonacademic practices. (NELP
4.2) Discuss how you would collaborate with staff and how you would foster two-way
communication with families. (NELP 5.1) Focus on how you and others will keep the
vision alive and meaningful with “top of the mind awareness” along with monitoring
and assessing the progress of the vision.

5. Community Involvement: Provide some specific strategies on how you would engage
diverse community members, partners, and other constituencies in the development of
the school vision. (NELP 5.2) Focus on the activities and processes that can be used to
engage a wider community about the school vision.

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