001the Lamar CISD Board of Trustees special board meeting will begin in five minutes e e e the Board of Trustees of the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District is called to order at 5:30 p.m. this is a special called workshop being held on March 24th at uh 2025 we have a quum with six members present uh trusty bronzelle is absent we will now have reports and presentations on the informational items Dr niens all right trustees thank you for making time tonight we have Dr Ken scrier who is here with JJ Consulting who's going to U give you an update about where we are with our strategic planning efforts our priorities and our core values and then he wants uh we're going to lead the board into a conversation about mission and vision statements and so by
002the end of the evening we'd like for the board to have a final mission and vision statement that will have final approval uh to the entire board um at the May 5th meeting when we approve the trat plan so Dr scrier thank you very much uh Dr nens thank thank you board for for having us back I'm I'm very eager to to get started on this important work um we're going to spend the next couple hours together and hopefully by the end of this meeting uh have a agreed upon uh vision statement and mission statement to go with all of the other work that's that's been taking place um across to your community uh with regard to the Strategic plan and the great work the committee has been doing so um just as a quick
003reminder um I've done this before um I'm uh my name is Kent Scribner and I served as a teacher and counselor and principal and several central office positions and then 20 years as a superintendent um over three different districts uh so tonight we're going to be working on your uh vision and mission statement so here's the plan uh we will um go through an introduction because I want to know a little bit about you briefly it'll be painless I promise um the uh then we'll dig into into the to the real work which is reviewing the core values that your committee H has identified and come up with as well as some priorities tonight again we will be focused on the vision uh and mission of Lamar Consolidated and then talk about some next steps
004uh Dr nibas talked about um formally approving uh this process uh at your May 5th meeting my job is to listen is to facilitate and to um help you uh come to what you believe is the best for um Lamar Consolidated so tonight's outcome as I said is because I agreed upon uh vision and Mission um kind of the context the why this is important for for our organization vision and Mission um are crucial for any organization uh because they provide Direction purpose and a sense of identity we make um hundreds and thousands of decisions um across uh day or week or month um in school leadership as you do and this is kind of a u a North star that we can focus on some work has already been done High performing organizations as
005I said earlier do a few things well tonight we will work on the top part of this pyramid uh the Strategic priorities U basically what we need to focus on to achieve our mission uh that work uh was was completed last week with the committee um and um and Sonia uh helped helped put that together as was the foundation at the bottom of the pyramid the foundation based on values your core values uh what we will do tonight again vision and Mission uh moving forward the superintendent and team will focus on goals and objectives uh an action plan with key performance indicators kpis uh how are we measuring our success what does success look like how do we Define that here and um Lamar Consolidated We Will We Will revisit uh both your strategic priorities
006and your values here in just a moment in fact let's do that now uh why values matter uh again you you have wonderful um participation on your committee uh with regard to your core values of trust of ethics of reliability relationship uh morals and ethics and goals uh these matter because they provide a framework for our behavior and decision-making fostering positive and supportive um culture and align the things that we do and Trust organizations those of you who've been on the board for quite a while and those of you who've been leadership positions in your own um P personal professional um capacities organizations move at the speed of trust and so we have to build that um both at this table and model that for the rest of the organizations and I've always said in
007in in my kind of leadership Journey the trust really has four dimensions the first people the first thing people need to do is is um you need to to to trust one's motives is is this person here for the right reasons why are why are we doing this work why are you on this board then we have to trust competence does does this person know know what he or she is doing are they capable of getting things done uh trusting dependability will that person be there on time show up um when needed and Fin finally we need to trust collegiality do do we play nice with others uh that is so important particularly in the business of schooling where we are in the people business so let's take a look at uh what has already
008been accomplished uh in this area of um of values uh as I said uh last week the the the finishing touches were put on your strategic priorities and I'm just going to go through these slowly I promise you will you will be um asked to to talk here in just a moment uh but want to kind of set the stage of what work has already been done there are five um strategic priorities that the Lamar Consolidated um ISD has come come um um come arrived at the first priority is um enhanced student learning experiences uh that our students achieve academic excellence and not only academically but have life skills uh through Innovative instruction and student centered experiences enhanced student learning experience es priority two uh safe learning uh environment safe learning and work environment that
009we ensure safety uh and belonging uh for students and staff by addressing physical emotional and mental well-being priority number three that um we have quality uh staff and support Lamar uh CISD attracts and retains the best staff through competitive compensation comprehensive professional development and supportive work environments the last two priorities established by your committee here here in our in our community are home and Community Partnerships Lamar ISD cultivates lasting Partnerships with families and Community to support well-rounded student development and success and finally the the fifth priority is organizational Effectiveness uh that we drive continuous Improvement through servant leadership effective communication and accountability at at all levels so those are our strategic priorities that have been established by your committee values also were agreed upon last week they were finalized last week U you're going to
010see um a great parallel between the priorities and and the and the values first value that your community believes um that you that is important that you should exude and we as an organization should focus on the first is accountability that we are responsible adults doing the work uh of of educating children that we're big thinking that we shine that we're not that we're not um afraid to to to to be a big thinker and and don't be small that we're compassionate that we uh care about others back to that trust trusting collegiality that Excellence is a value that all students should be able to achieve at their at the um optim optimal uh god-given Talent god-given uh ability uh Integrity that um that we we are have morals and ethics and we follow a
011compass and joy that we like being here that we like each other that we enjoy uh the work that we do because it is essential to this entire School Community okay so now the work for tonight Vision what is Vision Vision represents where the organization aspires to be in the future uh long-term goals and dreams we Inspire uh our it will inspire our employees it'll attract our families attract our customers and provide a mo road map it'll align our team as well uh both internal community and and external community and let's remember why it matters uh again Direction purpose we already talked about in inspiration and and motivation and really act as the guiding star help us navigate through those difficult moments in the work of school leadership about 10% you know there's a black
012and white world uh where the things are very very clear there's 10% on each on each end of the Continuum 80% of the decisions we make are in the gray area and it's because we have these vision statements and vision beliefs that provide us that uh that road map some quick examples before we dive into Lamar's Vision work uh vision statement uh examples Patagonia the clothing company to build the best product to cause no unnecessary harm and use business to inspire and Implement solutions to the environmental crisis Teach for America their vision statement is all children we influence will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education and none will be left behind Microsoft we strive to create local opportunity growth and impact in every country around the world both local and and Global and
013then Harvard uh we are committed to creating and sustaining the conditions that enable all students to experience an unparalleled educ educational Journey that is intellectually socially and personally transformative so these are examples these are the kinds of kind of model that um that we would like to um to to kind of guide our work around uh so there are some national Global examples if you will now let's look locally what did your community tell you what did your uh committee say the themes that emerged uh in our community feedback U process uh both survey and in person uh the vision uh ISS uh kind of focus areas that your community cared about was an Innovative education commitment to Cutting Edge and adaptive practices Community Centric growth we don't want to be an island um in
014the community Lamar ISD um really our Comm our committee wanted us to embrace embrace the community balancing expansion with strong Community um connection we talked about growth but the need to to to maintain that connection uh the third uh area that your that your committee cared about was excellence in academics and extracurriculars Aiming High for student for standards uh in education and in Student Activities and finally Equitable opportunities ensuring equality of opportunity across the district in every corner uh of our district so there's equal access to education so this is where you get to work um we've come up with some questions for you in fact um if I may could I get could perhaps we could distribute these we have these questions on um on a sheet of paper we're going to do first
015vision and I want to hear from you I've talked uh far too much already so it's time time to um to kind of facilitate a conversation um th this is how we create a vision statement by using uh descriptive words uh that paint a clear picture of what your District's positive future state will look like and will be like so these are questions I'd like you to think about for a few minutes uh and then I will ask you to to help me um kind of get some ideas up on the chart and begin to craft what may what will will become our vision statement the first as you see on that sheet of paper that we've uh just just distributed um what do you hope Lamar CISD will have accomplished in one to three
016years what phrases and key words describe the type of district and outcome you want and what can your dist District realistically achieve with this we want this to be be a realistic um Vision what problem does your District intend to solve and how will things be different if your vision if this vision is realized so why don't you kind of uh chew on that for just a couple minutes and then when I it's it feels like you're ready to to um to talk um we'll we'll begin to to craft our own vision statement sure one more this this yeah this that'll be helpful so this is what your community this is what your um committee U these are the themes that emerged from their work for e e for we'll we'll just do Vision now
017and then and then do the same exercise here in a little while with with Mission maybe another couple few minutes about three minutes or so e e e thank you okay why don't we um why don't we go ahead and get started um and I'm not sure we have to kind of go through every question and have you tell me what your answer was to every question as opposed to kind of what are the major themes that have emerged in on on your sheet of paper in in the areas of accomplishments in the areas of descriptive words um you know what what what can we realistically achieve um um what problems are we here to solve um how would this place look different if um if we achieved all of those um all of those
018challenges so who would like to kind of share their their overall thoughts key words ideas okay um so I put some keywords I thought you know we've talked a lot about Excellence so I was thinking maybe we could term certain things like gold the gold standard I I mean just just things that came to my mind reminds me of Excellence um uh also and we talk about Innovation a lot and so I thought with Innovation um we could call instead of saying Innovative all the time maybe we could say distinct that our district is distinct in certain ways uh and uh we want people to think that are to know that lcisd is the place to be so we want them to know that we're proud of what's here and what we offer our students
019and in so far as what um I think we hope was to for me to me a vision is is one to three years like or even longer than that like 10 years like what what the community sees are kids knowing and doing in 10 years being able to do and how we support that vision and um and goals being more specific to that for number one I thought of some things that are going to be com up and coming with the CTE Center um just in being able to send uh increase the percentage of graduates who leave LCD skilled and ready to work um Al or and also in line with that increasing the percentage of students who graduate with Associates degrees because I know right now it it's possible but many students don't
020know about it um and pardon point you kind of along with the CTE the gra percentage of graduates in graduating with Associates degrees increasing got um which kind of is in line with that the first point that I was saying but um with certificates or Associates degrees I just think a lot of students just don't know about it I mean we have options here and they're not being um taken advantage of so so I I heard you say um uh this concept of Excellence the value of Excellence gold standard that we're distinct also heard you say and I I just Ed the term you know College and Career ready ready for Success After High School what what am I missing that's it my phrase would be lccd is the place to be and place to
021be that's right alliteration that's right okay who's next oh you want to go I don't have too much but I mean the overall view is that we want our district to be the one that everyone looks to to say we want to be like them we want to be on The Cutting Edge we want to establish goals and set purposes for learning so that and we never want to settle our goals need to continue to grow as our students grow so our the people that work in our district have to continue looking for those um challenging uh curriculum so that our to meet the needs of the hu the population that we keep getting in our district because our district continues to enlarge itself so you know we we need to watch and make sure
022that as our children are moving forward we move forward and then we challenge them even more so we need to be the district that challenges our kids continuously and what you um just shared um lines up nicely with what your community feedback was with in the area of excellence and academics Community Cent growth you said you you you both um member box and and m deser talked about distinction kind of a destination School District where people want to want to be part of right others are we supposed to just do one yeah just yeah kind kind of free I'm trying to feel free to jump in and have a conversation among yourselves as well okay um as someone who has a senior graduating and has gone through several years in the district um I keep
023going back to like looking at her High School experience especially and being well-rounded as a person like um maybe well-rounded but also in having integrity and character and being service-minded and I know that was in here a little bit um but also involved like I want all our kids to find something to be involved in engaged yeah [Music] opportunities discon they don't continue to learn but if they feel they have a connection they move forward right tell me more about your the concept of being well-rounded because it sounded like there was some kind of you know ethical stuff there too well so just thinking of the things she's been involved involved in like she's um you know we set the standard for high academic achievement and she does that and that's important but also she's
024in extracurriculars um choir so Performing Arts um she is in NHS and volunteers a lot with that so just having experienced different things before she graduates that you know help when you're becoming an adult and you are expected to go to college and Take On The World want her prepared for that that's not entirely the school district's job but but kind of academic is our core Mission but beyond that the development of um of young human beings yes you're a book person you know like you want to do we have all kinds of things that they can be you know all these kids that come in here and do all these different competitions I've never heard of right so um yeah well this is the time that kids need to be able to try on
025and find themselves a little bit better because once they move forward it's hard to do that so that's why we need to have such a smish board of opportunities right and I feel like if you don't get involved in something in high school by the time you're in high school the chances of you getting involved in college or whatever are pretty slim I mean her her philanthropy work I'm sure that's opened up her eyes yeah others I put um so I'm thinking about District as a whole um that the value of community engagement that it's uh that we set the culture that it is imperative to have the community involved for us to produ produce students that will be ready for the workforce um that we would be producing problem solvers and critical thinkers um
026and that our students when they leave us are intentional with their actions and choices that they're not just sitting and waiting that they're getting out and doing something and stepping out so um more Community Partnerships was the the heavy thought on mine of that it's just kind kind of the the way we do things is that we do things with Partners we don't do it by ourselves and we can't do it by ourselves okay trust trust families in Partnerships that the how will things be different if your Visions realized uh more productive individuals entering the workforce okay yeah visions and that's the problem get yeah Visions are short Visions future Visions are right now okay um very good others uh they've said a lot and I agree with it all and some of those themes
027I have down myself um I think I think from what I me understanding what the law says that our responsibility is I think our thrust should be the highest ccmr rates in Region 4 and that's all those some of those other things that everybody else has said is would would happen if that happens um the other thing um that I will mention is that what K just said is a a deeper level of trust earned given by the public and the campus staff of the board and the District administration without U and I don't know if that's really achievable or not in this world with social media but um I think that we could get we could enhance that as part of our vision that we're we're a trusted organization and you know um some
028of the reading that I've done with regard to to that topic is the the high highest performing organizations with you know the private sector anyway when they talk about we want folks to trust us but the first group that needs to trust us is not our clients the first group that needs to trust us is our own employees you know how do we build that trust internally so that then that that kind of yeah and I and I know it's earned it's not something that that I would expect the public or our campus staff to give us right blindly by any means right and I don't and I I also say that it's a here yeah yeah and I I think that they do have a good level right now I I I don't I'm
029not implying that there's none I'm just saying we're trying to talk about where we want to go it's like just the benefit of the doubt always being given to the board sure whoever's on this board and the District administration I think is is a good goal it's about health it's about overall you know kind of organizational Health that's excellent other other ideas um I this would be a byproduct and this is uh I really like this idea that Dr nens uh spoke a while ago and I was going to steal it but I don't think that that's proper to do is to that we we have such a good reputation that we kind of have like a cult uh following people hear about Lamar they're like oh yeah they kind of think like that oh
030yeah you're like those crazy Texas Ann maggies that you know and like oh yeah yeah yeah there's some camaraderie there amongst our graduates and even you know local businesses and stuff I think that would be District yeah but but there's but but but in that what I'm I you're right K I would agree with you uh but the reputation for excellence maybe that's that's so that's so tra I don't mean it to be your community n this is good good for me coming in from the outside because what you're saying is aligning really nicely what you just talked about is balancing expansion with strong Community connections that we have to maintain maintain that excellence in academics um innov Innovation those kinds of things yes sir I don't disagree um the only thing that I would
031say is that with some of the questions that with me with my other job um we don't necessarily set goals we set stretch stretch goals right so this is what's achievable but this is what our goal is so realistically you mean that it's it's that's how close you can get to the goal not necessarily achieving the goal because as as you improve you're the goal Line's going to move as well exactly so you keep working in that direction um I just the one question U what problem does your District intend to solve were we working off a list is it just something that came to mind individually that stuck out um and I think that U Miss kind of Shar the same thing I was going to share is especially the high school kids offering
032them more opportunity um there's a lot of things that they can get involved in that have a world of opportunity um not just with um maybe going to straight to a career After High School uh kind of mentioned it as well with the uh dual credit and them actually entering College as a sophomore possibly um if not more but also with um just the um well so my particular case my daughter's extremely involved in FFA M the world that FFA offers her is kind of open-ended um I would say that you know that just being one example um I don't think not that we do a bad job I'm not saying that I'm just what I'm what I am trying to say is there's more that we could offer them um in ways of participation
033in competitions that open up doors for SC additional scholarships and everything else because most of those kids they want to um either go straight into a Workforce or um to a high level of education but don't necessarily have the means M so their involvement in these activities and contests and everything else it offers up a door opens a door for them to receive to able to receive yeah um things like scholarships that would assist them Beyond uh High School yeah I I would say to your ear to your first point about kind of stretch goals let's not just kind of set u goals that are that don't make us strive to be better that in a large District like Lamar cic when we talk about all students you know that's not every student is stting
034the educational race at the educational starting line so so from from from our from our our our perspective there are going to be some students who are who are College and Career ready and you can see it you know they have the the support at home and all those kinds of things and and others it is going to take a lot of investment from us in order to to to make that a reality if we're talking about all alll all students so this is this is a a very very good start um and remember thank you very much um member box for asking to to put the themes back up that your community came up with Innovative education those those uh programs outside of cor curriculum um uh allow us to um to to be
035more Cutting Edge um Community Centric excellence in academics and extracurriculars and Equitable uh opportunities ensuring all students have equal access equality so so kind of some of the themes that that that I that I see that I kind of see here are so I kind of in my chicken scratch here um this whole standard of Excellence excuse me this whole concept of Excellence gold standard excellence in academics a district of Distinction a destination District you're point to continuous Improvement so that to me that's a value that we that we that we talk about and and it aligns um there um this kind of what are we trying to achieve a productive um uh prod productive individuals uh College and Career Workforce ready uh graduates uh something something around around uh the kind of practical reasons
036that we are here um the concept um that um uh president Lambert talked about with kind of a culture of Engagement and then we talked here about both internal engagement our internal Community as well as our external Community um we talked about I like what you said this is the time when kids try try things on I heard that we are there's risk involved with trying things on and I heard the the concept of compassion one of the values that that that your your committee came on came up with so something around safety you know of of students not only their physical safety but their social emotional saf U to be intentional with our Community Partners earn their trust uh well-rounded Jackie well-rounded in every sense of the word so so those are the kind
037of theme themes that that I'm that I'm seeing um something around around Excellence something around well actually you have it right here you know um equal opportunity um something around um Workforce ready College and Career ready ccmr we want to we want to have the best ccmr uh numbers in our in our region U and then this culture of of compassion this culture of Engagement that's those are the kind of the themes that I am seeing and they and they kind of line up here what what what about the rest of you what what what am I missing uh in regarding regarding the word excellence um academic and social Excellence M and so yeah and then for when I think about Community um I think about who our customers are um our community customers are
038our students our parents our teachers the community our taxpayers are customers so I think about customer service that they're highly satisfied with the services and treatment they receive receive okay and I kind of put in there that we as we grow we have different communities all throughout the lccd community so we have to be mindful of the differences and meet the needs of where right they fall because what's going to be even though everybody is under one big umbrella there are multiple communities corre rcd correct and I think that's I put that as one of our problems to solve to be engagement within the communities guess say that again like engagement within the communities instead of community so take a look uh so let's let's take a look at some of those um examples of
039what um of what uh some vision statements look like [Music] you know an interesting thing too to to go back to in addition to that is again listening to your community um I'm sorry there it is their values you know the this idea of accountability thinking accountability I can I think kind of lines up with with uh with to me lines up with Excellence compassion lines up with u you know culture of Engagement big thinking lines up with the fact that we are there's more than one Lamar CISD community in multiple communities multiple perspectives multiple expectations big thinking both C customer service and equal opportunity for for for all of us so who wants to take a crack at uh at what kind of what what what themes we're going to include in our statement
040say it again vision is yeah yeah Vision yeah remember yeah vision is the big picture Vision Vision kind of um represents where the organization aspires to be in the future uh it's a long-term goal or dream a strong Vision inspires employees attracts customers and provides a robe map for growth and success it also helps in align the team and stakeholders with the overall aspirations of the organization so you know where who do we want to be and um mission is how we get there uh Vis Vision vision is where what kind of a district do we want to be long-term Direction and purpose I think we talked a lot about especially with ccmr because I also had that in what do you hope we will have a accomplished in 1 to 3 years um receiving
041that a rating again and ccmr is a big part of that um but what comes to my mind is like Future Ready leaders like we want we want kids who are ready when they graduate students to have that yeah so cultivate I I like Future Ready you know we we've you've heard the the by now it's cliche that that kids who are entering College are are this year this fall are going to be working in jobs that did don't exist with AI That's like times 20 you know the jobs don't there going to be a whole new world in six months uh and again another one and another one and another one so so so I like the concept of future future ready as opposed to to kind of College and Career um because also
042from the entrepreneurial perspective too it is um are we preparing PE kids to be employees or are we preparing kids to be at times they perhaps as an employee or perhaps an they have to learn that they should be able to take risks and even if they fail that they should be able to learn from that that when we set them up too harshly that if they make a mistake gets all over MH that right stops their education process kind of fail forward right so we need to that's so so so that is that's kind of it's okay to take a risk um the the challenge is going to be kind of figuring out how to get this into a couple sentences or resilience what I mean that's the word I thought of when K
043was talking yeah Brazilian why don't we just do that why don't we throw out throw out some some words throw out some vocabulary words that you think um represent what we've been talking about you need more walls around do this put it at the bottom yeah I have a I'll take a crack at it what's that I I'll take a crack at it okay sure um we strive to be a distri dist of academic Excellence with a customer service mindset working towards robust Community involvement as our students achieve the highest ccmr rates in Region 4 say say say that again I'm not going to I'm just going to get get the get the words there so so say it again we strive to be a district of academic Excellence with a customer service mindset working
044towards robust Community engagement robust Community involvement as our students achieve the highest CCM R scores academic Excellence customer yeah I was looking at your other sh chart there that yeah and you had another another concept academic Excellence customer service and there was robust Community involvement Community involvement not just Community involvement robust Community involvement yes got throwing some communities that make up our our world here what other Concepts do we care about um I think for me something we care about or I care about personally is who makes up our community and that Lamar CAC is a community of students parents staff and I don't know of a general word to say the overarching community the taxpayers what a pretty word would be for that that we're here with like a common goal so I think
045of who makes up our community and saying that like okay our our employees are part of our community our students are part of the community our parents are part of the community our business owners and our neighbors sure sure so kind of internal community internal Community external community in the broadest sense stakeholders stakeholders are are can be I'm I'm a stakeholder because when I drive through here I want to know that the kids are going to stop at the red lights right you know what I mean I mean right every a a a functioning and the and the adults we'll stop the red lights too a functioning kind of kind of society we have a common goal of producing students with academic and social excellence okay like common goal that like this is all these
046members make up this one common goal tell me more about that um that I like the future uh what did you say Future Ready Common so I mean to be Future Ready I mean our students are going to have diplomas our students are going to go on to whether they go on to some higher ed or they're going to leave us with a to get the CM articles they're going to leave with these certifications with with our new CTE center opening up that's a there will be some investment yeah and te may call it something else in two years so to say ccmr you know what you're getting at is exactly the right thing yeah and I think when we we go in there and we'll do it rewrite it you kind of write things
047in community like Communications to the lowest compon denominator so maybe not another better way of putting ccmr or something where it's not the average I think you know Future Ready begins to get at it um you know college career Workforce something something something around there so so so so far we have academic Excellence this concept of customer service I need to understand that a little bit better um Community involvement both internal external community and that our that our product our graduates are our future ready we also talked about um being a destination District place to be we also talked about culture of Engagement I think we have that maybe that maybe that's what we're getting at here um well-rounded students um we talk a little bit about that I I think like with the not
048not even that's a future ready but I would like for our students to have a confidence right now to be able to do things the other night we had a young lady come speak to the board and so she had that confidence and the ability to come speak to us in the moment while she's a freshman in high school so um or maybe us creating environments where students can lead out where they are right now whether they're in kindergarten or 12th grade yes question kind of a little just something when we were at a tasby conference we John and I went to a someone was speaking about um about doing your strategic plan and and the process and everything and they talked about doing a profile of success so while you have your mission statement
049your vision is more of a um like a profile of success what does our district think is successful so we're throwing out like a million different things when we could actually put our vision into a profile of success like what a high school graduate looks like whatever we want to call it and then we have academically what we expect socially what we expect um you know all those different categories like it basically it's a brand and a promise a vision so to speak but it's in like the portrait of a graduate form instead of like one statement and then we have a separate mission statement too right and and and I and I think I I agree with that that that that's one certainly certainly one way of doing it and and I think though
050when you talk about the profile the academic profile I see that following you know we want our Stu something about what our students so this to me talks about the students um customer service and this kind of idea of Engagement to me talks about the adults both internal and external as well as students tell me what tell me again the categories the profile success well it can be any categories that you want it to be right right the one the example they gave um it says they have something about academics and they have something about it's not necessarily you know five specific topics they really just talk about okay what do we want our students to be able to do when they leave school and these are the things they said one was academically thinking
051uh one was Solutions oriented effective Communicator culturally aware and and Community involved and a resilient learner so they have the portrait and then they elaborate on each one of those topics and then they have the mission of lccd which would be to me seems like really a little bit more elaborate in the sense of what we want to do what is our mission what is our so guess it's a to me I think mission and vision I think it's kind of like the same yeah well I mean I think I think mission is how we're going to get there V vision is where we want to be so so um so I'm hearing on the vision conversation is is we want we want um to have academic Excellence we want our students to be ready
052for the future um and and we want our employees there are some something around trust earn trust um something around um uh healthy culture uh something around uh identifying our stakeholders our taxpayers our parents our community members um in this kind of customer Paradigm because we are serving them something around our our real customer our real customer would be stup the customer is everybody I mean in my view in a public school system I mean it's it's it's it's everybody you know it's the kids it's the parents it's the it's the I agree I agree I see what you're saying but at the same time the board is here to ser the students which is what I mean we serve the taxpayers we serve the neighbors we serve the people that live next door but
053our whole existence is student outcomes is all I'm saying right which is student based well I don't mean ignore everybody else and I'm saying our main customer is our students that's why we exist right right right and I mean the students who graduate come back and live in our communities and work in our communities we hope I mean some of them will a lot of them will yeah you know we're we're the biggest employer in town and there's an expectation that we are operating efficiently right that that that we are so there's a concept of Excellence there's a concept of of of equal opportunity there's a concept of efficiency you know those are those are the big values in public education choice where where where we um our CH our our amilies and students choose
054us um in some systems the the schools want to choose the kids here want the kids to choose schools I always think a vision statement is more of our wish list what we wish it's it's not always easily attainable and then we have to come up with how we can try to meet our wish list and a side note though for everyone watching all dozens of them um right now our district does not have a vision statement so that's why we're talking about this so we don't have one so the mission we have a mission statement but we will yeah we're creating the vision as we go sure and and um that's what we're trying to accomplish right now and those are that that those are wish lists there too we strive to create local
055opportunity growth impact in every country across the world says Microsoft Teach for America all children we influence will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education and none will be left behind those kinds of thought so we had we had one one one attempt at the to get us started we strive to was kind of kind of how you framed it right it was so good I can't repeat it it was one and done that's it others others well maybe to tack on so John said customer service and robust Community involvement but maybe that's just a community centered mindset so we could short one thing yeah um and then I don't about the the values that the committee came up with of the accountability and big thinking comp passion Excellence integrity and Joy are we
056wanting to put those into the vision statement at all we don't have to we don't have to put put those words in there but I you know those are the well I mean it could be just a simple sentence such as we strive to instill the core values of accountability big thinking compassion Excellence integrity and joy equipping them for lifelong success weate well so your vision your vision is your big like elaborate in how you do it in the missions and I I came up with the first sentence but I don't like the whole thing but our vision is to empower students to be Future Ready with confidence critical think confidence critical thinking and a community centered mindset okay hang on I I don't know that I love that but something that's that's a that's
057a start that's a very good start so so Empower students to be Future Ready okay with confidence critical [Music] thinking I think the critical thinking is the one I don't like that's what I said and it Community centered mindset Empower students to be Future Ready with confidence confidence critical thinking what if we if you take out critical thinking say problem solvers confidence well you'd have to change the tense somehow or or or to or to be confident problem solvers problem solvers and then then we'll come back to the future with a community centered mindset yeah we we were trying to combine customer service and Community involvement this is hard yeah this is hard so so I um we haven't dealt with the excellent stuff yet I don't think in there um let's go back to
058the uh let's go back to the slide that your community told you they cared about right there so I although this is this is a good one so Empower students to be confident problem solvers something around academic excellence and something um ready for the future future ready and then something around this community centered I'm not sure mindset is is where we're going I have so if we include that Lamar c i is a community of student parents staff and stakeholders with a common goal of producing students to be so I think that common goal like you take that Community with a common goal of producing the right there um students parents staff and stakeholders okay we're warming up here that are highly satisfied with the services in treatment okay whoa I know that's totally not
059so so so before I start writing kind of say what you said again Lamar cc is a community of students parents parents staff and stakeholders with a common goal of producing Future Ready that's what I was going to say maybe we just say is a Comm Lamar cic is a community Lamar cic is a community and you what is our vision who are we I mean we I it's your it's your statement but but I mean I'm I don't see where it says you know Microsoft strives to well maybe we could yeah have a we got have a vision too yeah right right what we want to do equip our student so the vision is usually and all the the communication workshops I've LED and stuff like that you state your big picture overarching goal
060of what you want to do and so to State your overarching goal of where you want to go you have to say who you are good I like it and so typically that's how that some of that will roll out okay so you got to your vision is that that's your big that's your Northstar but your Northstar is typically only four words also right right so we would have to we would have to take vision mission and then figure out our Northstar after that so lccd is a community of and this is just what I have okay yeah goad community of students parents staff and stakeholders with a common goal of that common goal of what empowering students to be Future Ready confident problems power equip stud in an academic in an environment of academic
061Excellence okay keep keep going so so do you have that written down Lamar cic is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders maybe just write Community for now can add it since he's writing yeah stud I'll do um just the just the first letter student what sta students parents staff and stakeholders with a common goal of producing or you can do producing or empowering you have Empower and Visions I think Vision we want to make those actions how about is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders with a yeah I'm sorry uh lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders with a common goal of producing confident problem solving Future Ready leaders I don't know with within the are you g to say something about dadic Excellence within the environment of
062academic Excellence common goal of producing students or producing Future Ready I like the Future Ready leaders I like that I mean okay within a system of academic excellence because that's stating that we know right now we believe that we have a system of academic Excellence that we are that's that's a non-negotiable that so that's not saying we aim to have that we're saying we we have that that we believe that do you want to do Future Ready leaders or Future Ready citizens or some I worry about using the word lead cuz not every so part of no no but we that should be a goal and so we one of the one of the things that came out there was big thinking and so we want our students to think big we want our staff
063to think big we want our students people so I mean I would love for the next Mayors Congressman Senators business CEOs to come from lcisd so we we known for producing that and and leaders are confident problem solvers that's true um we where where's you said system and that doesn't feel that doesn't that doesn't inspire me um and and and we haven't talked about this this concept of of community that we care that that emerges over and over and over here or could you say um of Staff stakeholders contributing to a common goal of producing so so after stakeholders you put the action word of contributing so that all those are active members of that instead of producing can we use some other kind of let me getus I like that do you say it
064again lcisd is a community of State students parents staff and stakeholders who contribute kind of we working together who contribute to a common goal of producing Future Ready leaders within something dealing with academic ACC I'm like I ran out and that Vision I mean so that's kind that's a long for a vision statement so I mean we can tighten it up you you you can just say Future Ready leaders and then the academic Excellence will come into the mission because that's how we're doing that's how we're producing the Future Ready leaders is through academic Excellence but not just I feel like academic Excellence somewhere should be at the top of that not at the bottom somehow it's because we have to provide that education to get them there we yeah I mean I know academic
065Excellence is in there but really you could just drop academic and use Excellence because that will bring in the social academic and social and and basketball and the the Fine Arts and all that stuff right everything both in inside the school and outside the school doctor how do we get the concept of X lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders who contribute I like that that mean that kind of implies that we even if which we're not Dr n do you have anything you would like to who contribute to a common goal of producing Future Ready leaders who contribute well since you asked um I put on a compass for the next three years you know I would like for lcisd to be uh recognized at the national level for outstanding academic
066and extracurricular performances from our students um what words key phrases I said Elite exceptional distinct choices and opportunities uh for students uh can this be uh what can be the district real realistically achieved I said uh we should be known for embracing our new core values especially the big thinking piece I mean we have to really think bigger than what we're thinking and then um what problem does your District intend to solve I would like to see us tackle the the we we want to prepare students to go out to the world with grit right and a strong work ethic in society I think if they have grit they can deal with they have coping skills they can take no for an answer they have a strong work ethic then that would that would equip
067them to be tremendous citizens um and then uh how would things be different if your Visions realized well we produce high quality graduates who are highly sought after what were your words around Excellence I said Elite exceptional distinct choices and opportunities that that's what you asking me I didn't use the word excellence because it's it's kind of cliche is everybody kind of uses it I want to use something I like exceptional different I like distinguished but anyway just producing producing students that would go out in the world and have a strong work ethic and have some grit and have some uh and those are values yeah so so I I just dropped in if if I mean my suggestion but value driven L lcisd is a value driven community of students parents staff stakeholders who
068contribute to common goal of producing Future Ready leaders but we still need need need these con and we can get rid of this too no no pride of authorship at all um we I I I do think we need to sprinkle something in here around ex around exceptionalism Excellence you know would would Elite will be misinterpreted so we don't want to say that why I mean because elitist elitism what's wrong with our kids being Elite okay I mean I've hear that I hear that a lot and that's my that's my comeback it's like so why why wouldn't our kids be elite why wouldn't we want them to be elite why wouldn't we want them to step out and people say oh you're a Lamar sity graduate you're separate from everybody else you're dis thing you're
069Elite from everybody else I don't I don't understand the problem behind that I like it Moxy yeah I don't understand the problem behind that that that very very good that CHS me what do others think how can we um put something like that in here I keep typing ISD so that hey we've had good students come from that yeah District before Ros give me some of those words again Elite exceptional Elite exceptional distinct uh I said choices and opportunities so they have it um but piggybacking off what trustee W secretary W said is that whole that whole A&M culture is that when you think about University of the Texas A&M University right the first thing that comes to your mind is just the culture and the love and the respect and the reverence they have
070for that University it's yeah right yeah yeah what they say agies high agies is what I've heard I mean you know it's it's uh that's the kind of culture we want in Lamar D is when people hear Lamar sayd they're like oh yeah don't don't walk on the grass I mean you know it's that it's that I mean it's called the agie network so after future Wy leaders comma committed to a value of excellence in all that we do I I still don't think that what we're going with right here and you you said it originally uh defining who we are in the vision statement I don't see that on this on the examples you gave us on the screen well those are just four examples yeah yeah yeah I it seems like it's it's
071too clunky little too as opposed to this is what we're doing and and this is what we're doing with cble comp in the mission here in just a moment as opposed to say oh we're including the community we're the the stakeholders and that's that's along the way where we can Define that in the mission how to get there that the mission the mission is how you do things this the vision is the mission is what we want to do and AR we aren't we defining the terms here now ourselves as a group I mean but there's no there's no necessarily I there there's no necessarily way to say what the vision should be or what the mission should be but if we're trying to get a succinct Clear Vision for the district it seems like
072it's a bit but for our first one that we and we don't have yeah let's come out of the gate kicking butt so and take names of every other District because we are every other District in region four first and then the state of Texas yes then the world I feel like we we we've addressed this I feel like it addresses Excellence I feel like it addresses Community um I'm a little uncertain here but but you could convince me otherwise so far we have lcisd is a I got rid of values and put them down here lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders who contribute to a common goal of producing Future Ready leaders committed to the value of Excellence a value of Excellence committed to a value of something committed to
073what committed to a value of excellence in all that we do just shot saying what we are but it's not about what we are it's what we want to be what our vision of what we will be I don't know it's a vision of what we will become in in in the coming years not what we are behind you over there that passion for people and plan for Success might not have been a mission statement but it it drove what we wanted us to move forward in doing right and this is also representative of what we heard and like that's what this is for because it's what the community's Bo's vision is I I find this representative of what you your community said but you you all are the elected officials obviously lcisd is a
074community of students parents staff and stakeholders I like that the concept is We Are All One Community even though we come from very very different lenses perspectives and this this this this complex group students parents staff stakeholders contribute to a common goal of producing Future Ready leaders committed to a value of Excellence committed to I'm I'm what are you feeling about this about do we have to have the word ready in there can we just put Future Leaders maybe that's the word that's tripping me up I think so I mean I think it's on producing Future Leaders it just I see a couple couple head knots Jackie I think you came up with future ready I'm not married to it okay you okay with Future Leaders yeah everyone anyone anyone that a deal breaker for
075anybody let's just see how it reads lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders who contribute to a common goal of producing Future Leaders committed to a value of Excellence um I think we I mean we go what if we take out the word future because right now we're producing leaders right now so just on Tuesday night we had a young lady that came and spoke up and so she was being a leader in that moment watch this what if we do this who what if we this describes who we are right that's as you were saying what if we put this lcis is a community committed to a value of Excellence is stakeholders yeah no no you're right you're right may maybe it goes here lcisd is a community of students parents
076staff and stakeholders committed to a value of Excellence no this whole whole thing of defining ourselves in the division statement is throwing me way off I just I'm putting that out there again I I can't I don't know because it's supposed to be a broad picture where we want to go not what we are now yeah right but part part of our vision part of thing we've said uh it's on there multiple times is defining who the community is and defining we can still do that in a future statement basically what you're doing is amplifying expanding this word the word we and so we want to say who the we is basically what we're doing is defining that word and so Lamar CCD it's not just the paid people doing it and so when you
077look at a for-profit company like Microsoft you got the CEO and you got all the paid people doing that I don't consider myself part of Microsoft so I'm not part of the Wii but being someone that lives on Georgina down the street and my neighbors are on I would agree with you but I think he just had a very valid point Dr scrier what's that the the wi yeah it it seems like we're trying to in the in the direction we're going in the moment it seems like we're trying to Define what we is as opposed to using the simple letters w our people don't we want we want I hear what you're saying I'm I'm telling I hear what you're saying and you've said it a couple times I'm just letting you know I
078disagree that we need to Define that here I think it's worth defining yeah I don't think it's worth defining in the vision statement but I think if that is a priority of ours to have the community involvement we've got to tell in the vision that they're community that they are part of the Wei well what are the other thoughts can I jack anybody else got some thoughts on can I try Lord have mercy LCC is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders focused on developing Future Leaders committed to the Val committed to the core Val or values or core values of accountability big thinking compassion Excellence integrity and joy equipping them for lifelong success something like that so like embeding the values into the state and then the mission statement is the house we
079get there so I don't is also defining what is it what is it we want to we want to equip our students with blah blah blah blah blah yeah so so um let's jump on the mission here in a minute but but but [Music] the so so what Jackie what you're saying is embed the values into this mission statement can you say it again into the vision yeah um LC is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders focused on developing Future Leaders committed to the values of accountability big thinking compassion Excellence integrity and joy equipping them for lifelong success or now that I'm reading that we could put back in the community piece like the well we went back and forth on community centered but I you know the your culture here of community
080uh this got me kind of excited this concept of you know contributing this common contribution you know that that that when we said lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders who contribute to the common goals or maybe it's common values of of those things you think we should list out values I don't know seems very so then no values lots of words no yeah I mean the vision is going to be shorter right and then the mission is going to be more explanatory would assume what was it contributing to the common goal ofure fure ready just leaders that are committed to lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders contributing to the common goal say it again contributing to the common goal youall want to keep that or no I
081didn't hear what John said earlier because I was typing just I said you could say all that or you could say we but we have to let the people I I see I see that but but but but I also see the value of of spelling it out spelling it out and especially if we're going to contribute I mean to to me to me there's something I totally get get what you what you're were saying but there's something I was I was just repeating what you said yeah yeah yeah because if our three to five year goal is to have all those people in it they have to be told that they're part of it if you do this right in 3 years you can you can go back we can go back to Wii
082if we do because people will see themselves um lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders contributing Jackie to the common goal to a or the to a we need some of our AP English teachers to I know come help us out yeah you're not voting on this till till May so we get some time Miss row at Randle High School I name Miss R do y'all like producing leaders or developing leaders developing I like developing yeah okay so contributing to the common goal of developing leaders developing saidy we agreed on something go ahead okay goal of developing goal goal of developing leaders that are committed right well committed to the values but that's what we had down there could you say that are committed to the values or just committed values or
083LC I don't know these the values that I mean I also think that you know because it it comes in a big long PDF and everything so if the if we want to have like a part of it that just says our like our culture our values and then have accountability big thinking compassion like it doesn't all have to go in the vision yeah yeah I don't I don't think exactly because if you said share values you can click and see what those shared values right right and those six shared values are we may vote on different ones in May right so though we don't we we don't have to be married to those even though yes we want to Value what the community might change time they may yeah have we used the word
084pleas use the word Community already and we keep going back to Excellence but Excellence isn't part is part I apologize part of that what do you want our leaders lcisd or we lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders contributing to a common goal H it's m too too much Comm red common goal of developing though um but again this is kind of like what we what we do not what our vision is but no we envision this or we can we can we can change it to say we envision LCC to be a comic Community but like you you put what you want to see in your vision statement like what you want to happen right now are we that parts of it I mean that's pretty basic to me so yeah
085I think we are does the owner of bims across the street see him as part of this does he identify or does that resonate with him this is telling him he's part of the solution no whatever developing our Future Leaders just seriously our vision yeah I mean I I think we're getting here we say contributing to a common goal of developing lead I think yeah period and then coming over here with a core purpose and target audience I'm just saying wouldn't we say if our vision would it be too develop to do not developing like we're saying who we are and what we're doing now is what it sounds like to me I think you could take out the phrase contributing to the common goal that's implied okay yeah through that I mean we like
086you know K and I like contributing but but we don't need it I mean what do you think about that um if we if we were to say um could you just say with a common goal what if what if we whatever we're going to say here we we use it as an adjective before leaders lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders with a common goal of developing blank leaders within could you say within a system of Excellence we don't like system culture but I mean we are a system we are a SCH culture of Excell culture of Excellence within a within a culture of Excellence what does that mean culture or like culture is like your no I mean like tell me what is you what is that to you that
087is a I mean we so in society you have your Norms you have your values continuous Improvement continuous Improvement so our culture of Excellence is that that is what we expect so when you set your culture to be a standard to be a standard so it's a standard of exellence so your culture so then you have all your subcultures and you have why would we say culture why wouldn't we say a standard of Excellence or well culture kind ofi says that a part of a system and and and a culture is not something you can say this is my culture your culture is how your community feels or how your customers feel about it so it's what's implied it's the byproduct of what you set in place remember earlier we said gold standard distinction um
088lcisd is community of students parents staff and stakeholders with a with a common goal of developing leaders Dr nens what kind of leaders do you want right leers Community as I say earlier I want I want um leaders that have I mean grit is the only word that keeps coming to me what what word grit you know to me to me grit means is that you no matter what the obstacle is you you're going to over come it because you have the wherewithal you have the grit you have the stamina you have the desire you have the intelligence you have everything you need to overcome that obstacle and so uh and that's what our world is lacking right now our world our world is lacking people that have grit that have that stamina um we
089said resilient here some yeah resilience I know kids are resilient anyway so you know that we need to you know that's why I would like to see produced or developed the Excellence may be a little cliche but what what what if I embed what you just said this way lcisd is a community of staff students parents staff and stakeholders with a common goal of developing resilient leaders committed to Excellence others but what do we actually mean committed to Excellence meaning that they those students or the students we will achieve for the highest that we want to get them ready to achieve the highest of their ability and capabilities about one of them Dr n's point about Elites um we are committed to creating and sustaining conditions all students to experience unparalleled educational journey is intellectually
090socially personally transformative um lcis is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders with a common goal of developing right now we have resilient leaders committed to Excellence but I'm not feeling the love or the excitement academics for instance that's the it's the main yeah that's the main reason we're here and then we did say that out of the out of the out of the um out of the shoot here so what if we move that up here then um LC's community of students parents staff and stakeholders committed to academic Excellence with a common goal of developing something resilient leaders citizens yeah Jackie your point about whole the whole child well-rounded sorry say that again me there's still learning I feel like I don't know I I I I think it's um very vague in
091that sense like by leaders I I think okay I I think I know I know I hear what you say about the ccmr acronym um I think we should focus on that somehow okay because uh if that were to change the the in the next couple years let's just let me defend that for a moment if that changes by the tea or state legislature this board could come back and rewrite that one little phrase of the vision statement and then keep going with it um but I think that's the focus when we say leaders and all that kind of stuff we're we're talking about graduating kids who are CCM Mar College and Career or military ready that is the goal of the school district um what if I because I really like the word distinct
092what I really like the word distinct could we say LCD is a distinct community of students parents staff and stakeholders does that make sense to you all group team I like the s or you could say value driven community no I like to see I think it's still more just adding more words distin distinct one word at least I mean I like the word too if we can work are we okay with um committed to academic Excellence after the list of who we are lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders committed to academic Excellence with a common goal of developing we said well-rounded resilient graduates leaders I I like what John was [Music] saying about ccmr I just don't know would you say like leaders who are ready for college career or
093military ready leaders call yeah no also what do yall think about saying diverse Community because we are diverse Community you like all different kinds of yeah diverse I don't know yeah I don't know if we need an adjective there we've already got a lot of words oh I yeah I couldn't hear you I mean the the only thing is like it's a given we are diverse so like it maybe not our vision is to be diverse but our vision is to be distinct and our vision is to be or do we just say LCC is a distinct Community committed to or a distinct district lcisd is a distinct Community I me when I look at the source it says for distinct definite noticeable recognizable specific unmistakable so those are other words for distinct and I
094don't know yeah I so if I were if I were to take away distinct and I put the word recognizable how would that would that be a value add no for that or a specific Community um because we could say that that and then we can add we aim to cultivate a learning environment where every student will succeed through strong community support and Elite educational opportunities so you you could sub use that substitute the concept of academic Excellence with with that description right I mean we could have so like the first sentence could be that who we are as that it's it's setting the tone and the expectation and part of our vision is that all those players are involved and the second sence will be that we are um or we could to be
095nationally recognized for elite academic and educational opportunities so um okay so we have we have who we are we have committed right now we have committed to academic Excellence we really need more walls here we have who we are we have committed to academic Excellence with the goal of developing well-rounded but but are we off of that now I I don't know I think we're over thinking this too much keep so how do we simplify it then um remember the concepts that we that we wanted to get to were academic Excellence it's concept of community we have that there academic Excellence we said we we used to like future ready but but that's okay um and we talk about empowerment lcisd is but so what about if you put it put it back on what
096the community said those four buckets sure sure sure I wonder if we can take those and we can have words to fill in the Gap uh to connect all those so we talk about Innovative education exence academics curriculars Equitable opportunities Community Centric I wonder if we can take those and just have words that will fill in those gaps to connect all those forward I mean that's pretty good lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders with the common goal of maybe that developing is not the right word cul cultivating providing cultivating Innovative education excellence in academic Mi and extracurriculars Community Centric growth and opportunities for all I like I like the word cultivate because that takes work yeah water and that's that grit you have to have that grit the soil right we
097were talking about that earlier the plants in your house we to make sure when we're riding this we're riding this for everyone not just us to read or our yeah that people do understand they always get upset with us when we use too much and they get upset with us when I went to all those evening meetings and I put this up and I didn't I don't see it again I don't see it again right you see what I'm saying why did I do all that work right so bring in their work into what we want I like that we're trying to make it too hard lcisd is a stu is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders could committed what where was cultivating coming in uh committed to the com committed to the
098common goal of cultivating and no to cultivating committed to cultivating we or I mean I we cultivate a learning environment or we aim to cultivate a learning environment where every student Dr scrier y could we take a do youall need a break we did take a little break do you need to take a break do you need to take a break you good do you want to take a break you good okay okay never mind let's go on just take lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders I like finishing strong with these over here how do we get from from who we are to that we cultivate a Cutting Edge learning environment because that's Cutting Edge over there cutting age learning environment we ER EXC creating excellence and academic and extracurriculars through
099Community Centric growth and opportunities and Equitable opportunities so we use those words in it so we create or we cultivate Cutting Edge education Cutting Edge opportunities yeah you know what we're not committed to doing it we're do we're going to do it yeah so lcisd is this is a group of these people we that cultivates Innovative education is that is that where we're going with this or Cutting Edge you like Cutting Edge or we're commitment commit we're making a commitment to Cutting Edge an Adaptive educational so I I we use inovative a lot because we have our Innovative day and all that so we can say Innovative educ I think they'd understand it yeah and and they came up with these they came up with yeah so we'll say that cultivates Innovative educ Innovative educational
100experiences Innovative education excellence and academics n curriculars Community centered growth and Equitable opportunities I think that works so lost so huh I'm lost he's about what he's doing we Cate part of what we said Innovative learning Innovative learning environment educational environment where or yeah Innovative educational environment with excellence in academics and extracurriculars that yeah that creates excellence and academic and extracurriculars through Community Centric growth and Equitable opportunities yeah oh we will I mean you to us and we can work on it because it just gets what after you said okay Innovative learning environment where every student develops the grid to overcome challenges and become a leader of tomorrow or pardon Innovative what Innovative education Innovative learning Innovative learning environment isn't that what you said and then we can talk about Community inov Learning environment Innovative
101learning environment that creates excellence and acen yeah that creates excellence and academics and extracurriculars through well then where' you say Suzanne Miss box where were you saying the grit I was just saying after you talk about the committed to whatever word we ended up using cultivating um develop the grit to overcome challenges and become a leader of tomorrow and then we can talk about the sense of community I like Leaders of Tomorrow kind of in the sense of okay lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders that cultivates it's a community that cultivates Innovative learning environments excellent I don't I I excellence in academics and extracurriculars Community Centric growth the word create maybe both Innovative education environments creating excellence and academics and extracurriculars do we want to finish it with this and not
102Equitable opportunities to finish it with ensuring all students have equal access to Quality education yes yeah you know um okay I'm I'm I'm not I'm not in love with that create um Innovative learning environments that create excellence in academics and extracurricular but it's your statement No we can I'm not mared to that either what what did you say I'm not yeah we can we can we can get rid of that that was and I don't mean we have we have earlier who the community is so I don't know if we need to include that Community Centric growth because we have that we are a community already although what I mean I mean maybe maybe but the concept is balancing expansion with strong Community connections so what do you want to do with that guys and
103gals lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders that cultivates Innovative learning environments excellence in academics and extracurriculars that cultivates Community Centric growth and ensures all students have equal access to Ed quality education if if you're if you're going to say that I'm going to do this do it again guys if you're going to use Community Centric growth which I like drop the beginning and say we yes because you have community in there and you can Define who the wi is and your mission and other places because it's very wordy it's got a poster well we could have vision and then right below it the mission you know like you usually see in an organization or often see is it once upon a time they made us all put our mission statements because
104we used to have Mission stat I don't know where it went I think it was replaced by this we had to post them in our rooms oh yeah and the we our values and mission statements are posted in our classrooms what about if we said we cultivate an a lead learning environment we're Innovative doesn't matter what did he say he gets put down when he uses what word do you usually get told not to use Elite Dr H yeah so so where are we on on on on on defining who we are kind of building that that that buy in versus shortening the sa well read it shortened and read it long and let us hear it we are it doesn't work does it we are a district oh we are I mean what we
105would say here would be we cultivate Innovative learning environments excellence in academics and extracurriculars community Center growth and ensure all students equal access to to Quality education we almost have to say we as a district what does community centered growth mean it means balancing expansion with strong Community connections but does when somebody's reading that they're going to be like H we're going to balance the expansion with strong Community connections and I don't like that just because it doesn't really have anything to do with what the student is going to be after they graduate okay but this is not just the student it's the whole District but there is the concept of community which maybe and maybe that's where this is right well can it be two sentences do we have to have one sentence as
106a vision that's I think that's what we yeah I think it' be better for one statement lcisd is a community of students parents staff and stakeholders is is it a growing Community do we want to say that could we just say LCC is a value-driven community committed to academic Excellence through Community Centric well we could take that part out and reward that but just I mean just say that is a community because that's what we are so we can take out we can take out the defining who it is LCC is a Valu driven community that is committed to academic Excellence through wouldn't we want to say like where every student blah blah blah let me can I finish that it says through Community Centric growth we where re work that part we Foster Innovative
107learning environments ensure all students have equal access to high quality education say it again this is why it's a workshop y'all lcic is a value driven Community committed to academic Excellence through and if we want to rework that Community Centric growth or through Community Partnerships can't yeah but we value the community's Partnerships and so I think we are a community well yeah but but yeah but I mean the value driven community that to to me that encompasses Partnerships I don't think you need to say um committed academic Excellence if we're coming back here and saying we cultivate Innovative learning environments excellence in academics and extracurricular I was just trying to make it shorter yeah yeah so here lcisd is a value driven community yeah is a value driven District just that's why I said committed
108to we are a value driven District okay I love it let's go but I've been trying to get us back to we but I think part of our vision and what we hear through the other workshops is to bring in that I mean the community doesn't we're so large that we're not seen as everybody knows your opinion and my opinion can y'all can the rest of y'all give a sh's opinion on this I would say Jackie Joe got anything to add but we're try we I just think we're getting too much in the weeds we're just trying to say to me the vision is what we see is like a snapshot right and I think we're writing the whole book and and our but and our community told us what they what they what the
109whole movie lcisd is a value driven community that cultivates Innovative learning environments excellence in academics and extracurricular and maybe we go that maybe that goes first that cultivates excellence in academics and extracurriculars Innovative learning environments and ensures all students equal access to Quality education okay works perfect let's write that up and send that out and let us work from it I don't like like that at all yeah it kind of loses something at the end doesn't doesn't have a punch at the end it starts real good at the beginning starts strong and then Fades I think we're tired it's two hours five minutes let's do 5 minutes and then I'll I'll I'll drop this down one more time and we we'll talk talk it through so it um [Applause] 7:35 do I need to say
110anything all right it is 727 7:28 we are going to take a break and we'll be back in five minutes e e e it is 7:37 p.m. and we are back in the workshop okay so I tried to incorporate the themes that the Lamar CISD Community feedback uh that emerged through that process and I think I was hung up on on the order but we I kind of tried to move them around and I think we got it most of your points but there may be some other things we want to add um here's here's my crack at it lcisd is a value-driven community that ensures all students access to academic and extracurricular Excellence through Innovative teaching and cuttingedge learning environments come pick it apart what's it missing a punch punch yeah doesn't have a
111okay sounds very uh generic okay as Mr heac so said you know I can say when when we had the strategic planning committee meeting last week big thinking and Joy were a part of the conversation the core values because they were different words and typically you don't hear big thinking in core values you don't hear the word joy in core values and the committee really really liked it and appreciated it because it was something different I like that too so so big thinking and joy emerged from the committee as something that they wanted to to see in this in this well not necessarily this but I'm just thinking about the the conversation about the core values why they chose those was because there was something different and they weren't they didn't sound like everybody else's
112right and maybe this is this is kind of generic value driven because who what does that mean what whose values are we a big thinking Community W to be wan to be I like what you said about about over overcoming challenges so how would you incorporate that into what the work that we've done so far well I would say that we're I mean we had at first earlier before we went on break we had something that talked about LCC being an Innovative learning environment we could see where every student develops the grit to overcome challenges and become Leaders of Tomorrow we wanted to but we took that out the leaders part out so okay maybe that go maybe ensures all students access is a second piece and the first piece is up here that um
113prepares resilient students prepares so to me this isn't this is not a vision State this is more of like a statement I'm not trying to be difficult I'm just it's it's it's pretty like what's the vision well the vision is that we become that that we are that that we create that space it just it's like a statement of who we are like what we are well who we hope we are we may or may not be all of those just now I know it just is we are a this this but when you're doing a vision statement it's you're you're not saying we want to be you're saying no you are where what is it that we want to do right you're saying you're Pro it for the future right we will build we
114will prepare we will influence we will commit to creating we will create um so through Community maybe maybe instead of his a we what what will we do or that will ensure off Microsoft LC strives to be a value driven community strive to be a district of academic Excellence strive to finish our so we need an action distric of Distinction I kind of like that I don't know I feel like we should say that we strive yeah strive to be right so so go back to what you said about grit and um at the beginning we can I've just said that uh where every student develops a grit to overcome challenges and become Leaders of Tomorrow so say that again didn't hear you where every student develops the grit to overcome challenges and become leaders
115of tomorrow but we also had at the beginning that we were a learn Innovative learning environment okay where every student cultivates Innovative learning environment where every student develops grit to overcome challenges and become Leaders of Tomorrow because I think we could get at that first and then come back to ensuring all students so so if we if we said um lcisd strives to do something prepare and ensure so can we put in there lcsd strives to be a district of Distinction where every student to did what we want our students to do I like that we don't have enough action strives strives to be a district of Distinction that that student I mean we all agree that we want them to be leaders that's one thing that we've talked about we also want to we
116wouldn't we want a strong sense of community I mean without unless we lift list out all the stakeholders that will ensure or ures we strive to ensure lcisd strives to be a district of Distinction that ensures all students access to academic and extracurricular Excellence through Innovative teaching and Cutting Edge learning earning environments can we say opportunities instead of Excellence because it just doesn't me it doesn't what do you what do you all want extracurricular opportunities is that where you want to take off Excellence well what is extracurricular Excellence what is that like what does that mean to yall extracurricular Excellence it say they'll be good at what they do yeah but it just isn't when you read when the average person like me reads that I'm like what does that even mean like extracurricular Excellence
117you have a good football team I mean like what are you talking about um I mean it is kind of what your community said though they said excellence in academics and extracurriculars aiming for high standard I understand what they meant I mean I understand what they meant by it by like I'm I'm assuming many opportunities to participate not just in sports not just in theater not just in like opportunities but but saying saying it in a one-word line to me doesn't seem to have much meaning so so there's a conversation right now about Excellence so far I'm I'm feeling lcisd strives to be a district of Distinction that ensures all students access to academic and extracurricular okay yall suggestions y'all are going to kill me but I'm just looking at other school districts around here
118and what their Visions are one is our vision be the Legacy and the other one is uh this district will graduate students who exhibit the attributes of the district's profile of a graduate like I think we're we overthinking and it that does not mean we have to be like them at all I just think it can be very succinct it can more detailed in our mission of that or if we should portra of a would be combined with our mission ures all students if we had a portrait we' be the mission would be to these things with access to Innovative teaching and cuttingedge learning environment do we even need because if they're getting Innovative teaching and Cutting Edge to learning environment that would mean they're getting ACC they oh well I don't know I just
119think you're right we have too many words our vision is to grow a value driven Community where Innovation thrives Excellence is a standard and every student has equal access to high quality education say that again our vision is to grow a value driven Community where Innovation thrives Excellence is the standard and every student has equal access to high quality education did you write that that multiple thoughts put together parts of it are AI ore we are a value driven community so what did you say Joe I know I was just thinking two hours yeah and and there's an argument that the process is is as important as the document yes ter you all working together right so say that again our vision is to grow a value driven wait wait wait slow so we took
120away we're not we're not saying we we're saying our you you like are that's a compromise guys it's also not the community and the students and the this and the that and the but what about just we are a value driven Community let's do it so we are a value driven Community where well let me just say it first so he doesn't write it if youall don't like it we are a value driven Community where Innovation thrives Excellence is the standard and every student has access to high quality education I like it you got everything we don't have the community Centric growth say we don't you don't need those words but but but something that can you say it again jack sorry okay we are a value driven Community where Innovation thrives Excellence is the
121standard and every student has access to high quality education value driven Community value driven Community Innovative excellence every student has access you got yeah like slow can you say one more time Jackie slow slowly for me we are a value driven Community I I got we you win you win John I I contributed something yes thanks Microsoft thank you Mr he where Innovation thrives Excellence is the standard and every student has access to high quality education now is that is that uh AI Jackie or is that you that's what Zach said and I shortened it so that was part that's good has access to high quality education we are a value-driven community where Innovation thrives Excellence is the standard and every student has access to high quality education so if we adopt that then our
122mission statement has to say how we will be that how we will get that done yes and some of those things that we there and that comes directly from what the community right absolutely it it showed it showed up right here you got it all you got community you got Innovation you got Excellence you got um equal opportunity okay so why don't we go with this to start creating the mission statement and we may MH edit but yeah so so so mission um is defines our purpose how do we get it's how we get this done provides Clarity on the day-to-day actions and focus ensures that our decisions align it's Clarity on day-to-day focus and here are some examples to bring Nike to bring inspiration Innovation to bring inspiration and Innovation to every athlete in
123the world Nike so it it focuses on its purpose it focus on target audience and it focuses on what they're trying to get done to to connect with active Lifestyles so Google to organize the world's information and make it univers universally accessible and useful Google's mission statement highlights its core service what is our core service who is our target audience what is the ultimate goal again Microsoft to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more focuses on empowerment both individuals and organizations creating tools to achieve that success here's what your community said Lamar cisc Community feedback on Mission holistic to your point earlier holistic student development focusing on comprehensive student well-being and academic success so both the uh Mo social emotional and academic sustainable practices prioritizing long-term planning and resource efficiency
124and and education makes a lot of sense in a fast growing hypergrowth District collaborative Partnerships enhancing education through strong community and business Partnerships and cultural and Community representation you're a very diverse and quickly and continually changing community so actively fostering environment that reflects and respects the very backgrounds and experiences of all students I heard Joe say this this neighborhood is very different than that neighborhood we are not one community so here's here here are the questions that you that you answer you have a sheet of paper you we we can go we can move faster on this one I think we get the hang of it the first is what is our core purpose what do we do why do we do it who is our target audience and actually we talked a little bit
125about that in the first um versions of vision we list everyone the Wii um what services do we provide to fulfill our purposes what are our core services and what outcomes do we want to achieve look at those again you have those what's our core purpose who is our target audience what services do we provide to fulfill our purpose and what outcomes we want to achieve another quick look at some examples this this is much this is to to to your point um Suzanne about about succinct concise direct to bring inspiration and Innovation to organize and to empower yes sir y yes sir thank you e e e okay um so I just said that I feel like is a when we do the core purpose I don't know to me all of it just
126kind of obviously goes together so I'm just going to say what I wrote down I just the the mission is to equip students with knowledge support and skills to be successful in life um obviously our primary focus are academics but that we want to instill and cultivate other qualities Beyond academics for our students and just some of the things that I wrote down I'm sure youall would have stuff to add critical thinking problem solving um communication leadership skills respect what was your what was your uh first comment the to equip students to do what with knowledge support and skills to be successful in life okay to equip students with knowledge support and skills does that does that does that get this done other yeah I mean details but yeah yeah started and then outside of
127academics as well other qualities this will be this will be more concise and directive than the VIS okay other suggestions I I would really love us to use the phrase from the Texas Constitution of which we are established by m a general diffusion of knowledge is the is that is the opening phrase of article 7even of the Texas Constitution that's the reason we exist a general diffusion of knowledge So when you say on here what is our core purpose it's a general diffusion of knowledge in my mind what should kids know and what should they be a be able to do others also basically we want a well-rounded education Embraces the whole student their intellectual emotional and physical growth we want to embrace I heard well-rounded student say say what else well well-rounded education education
128and that Embraces the whole students for intellectual emotional and physical growth okay others mission statement to to do what that will achieve this Vision in the coming years these say to bring to organize to empower some so far to equip is um is a u action word to diffuse although that may be a little confusing to some folks to educate the whole child IO what that passion for learning how can we get something in there to make them because we bring the we bring everything to them but unless they have that inner drive to want to learn that's the that's the grit that's the passion yeah what are we doing what is the mission of this organization to do what that will result in excellence and high quality education I think combining academics with like
129CTE stuff I mean although there is an academic piece to it I don't know I think certain things that don't to me don't seem academic like critical thinking is not academic it's a it's like it's it's a learned base oh do you know what I'm trying to say critical thinking like things that are outside of what you think of as academic typically I mean you Knowledge and Skills is kind of what you said over here to equip students with knowledge support and skills so that they may be successful but but on that pyramid of trying to get them to learn critical thinking is one of those steps yeah that you have to have and then it's to get to where they can evaluate you know and at the bottom of that is support right right
130then the skills and the knowledge right I think when we do the profile of a student a critical thinker can be part of [Music] that John do you have any ideas on how to put the general diffusion of knowledge in there right now no because good question but I I I thought we were going to do the same exercise we did for the vision which is go through these things right here so I'm I'm kind of so I don't really have anything else on what's our core purpose is okay others just yeah um just like last time I mean you guys you could sh share with me the general themes that have emerged from the page I'm feeling like there's some agreement about our target audience being our students right I think students but also
131just current and potential students and staff and families I mean know I think potential ones as well I actually listed a five and I put students last because they're never going to read this they don't care well who the people who care are the taxpayers first and foremost second people who care were Incorporated in that are parents of course but a lot of taxpayers are not parents um most are not yeah another uh group that that cares is is our staff another group that cares are the business owners in our community um those are the folks who are kind of looking like what's this District all about what how are they doing this and that's I I I don't I don't see the need to write a statement that encourages our students to buy into
132our mission statement well I think we're not we're not asking them to buy into it wrong phrase on my part you I I think I I was communicating what I was trying to say that is he like they're going to be there no matter what like Dr n's always says they have to be there no matter what or students so I mean it's a so anyway so if this is the purpose kind of the goal of our organization the mission statement should be clear concise and focused on getting us here our mission is to educate the students bottom line or we don't exist right so it's what do we want to educate our students with do you want skills with character with passion what do you want to equip the students with not just reading
133and writing arithmetic they need to be equipped with other skills that they can transfer into other areas as they grow and mature right and how do we say that in a concise and clear way I mean the that's what I'm our first our first statement that you know to equip our students with the the the knowledge skill the support knowledge skills knowledge support and skills um uh that'll prepare them for success I mean just kind of in general so the how is what we're going to provide them with h the how is what we're going to provide them with can you please go to the slide that has the four from our our team the what the the four the four from our there we go thank you to educate the whole child through Innovative
134instruction sustainable practices and strong Partnerships our mission is to educate the whole child through Innovative instruction sustainable practices uh we have to add that fourth one the cultural and Community representation um strong Partnerships yeah so when you see when you hear yeah so so I mean like so I I think again and Dr n maybe you can help the this one to me talks more about the facilities and and resources or or no uh yeah it it it has somewhat to do with that U what what I see sustainable practice also would be your um um your protocol your procedures your practices in the district that no matter who's in the seat these practices or procedures protocol still remain the same the sustainable practices but that but it includes the building the hard you know
135the hard structure the the capital projects also so when I see that I see so what what do we what what will we what will we do in our district as a practice that is going to last throughout Generations right whe whether or not we're here or not yes sir yes sir to educate the whole child sounds funny whole child student I don't like whole child either to educate students to educate every student okay educate our students we say to equip it's more than just academics it's things outside of academics they need to thrive or successful to educate all students we are an educational system um every student every student when I said Hol I meant all parts of them yeah yeah I know I'm just trying to figure out how we can get to
136educate every student period good night are we are schol student right through or with something are we going to give them something are we going to do educate them well to educate every student to the highest standard we talked about Excellence is a standard standard so we talked about well we talked about Innovation earlier is that in it's in there so Innovation the no we talked about and and and and I mean I think being concise and and clear we talk about that too I don't know I like equip because we're not just educating them to just be in school we're equipping them to be go beyond beyond academics and I mean maybe they go on to higher academics but maybe they don't maybe they go into the community maybe they go to a trade
137school I don't know I when we when we did the listening thing I at the one that I was at a lot of people talked about hey my kids's not going to college my what can they you know they're not going to school I mean my son didn't one of my boys isn't in college but to equip them with the ability to go to college to go to trade school or go straight into the workforce yeah whatever it is that takes to do that there's families and standing wages right here in this ZIP code for for students who have a skill so the mission statement should be what we see that graduating student having as they leave our district right this is the organization's reason for being it defines its purpose and key objectives that
138we seek to achieve a clear Mission helps guide our decisions strategy actions without a mission organization can easily lose focus and drift aimlessly so we're trying to find the what are we focused on would it be beneficial to hear what our current mission statement is yes to educate all students by ensuring access to a superior education through inspired leadership among parents teachers administrators and staff allowing students to achieve their full potential to participate in future social economic and educational opportunities in the community that's the longest sentence really long so to educate all students by ensuring access to a superior education through inspired leadership among parents teachers administrators and staff allowing students to achieve their full potential to participate in future social economic and educational opportunities in their Community I mean I think we'll all agree
139that we're here to educate educate kids educate and prepare them for whatever's next you know we could just adopt that that statement again that's pretty good I think it's so wor the one we have no it's it's too long you could probably pair that down to something that is clear and concise it was probably that so many different people were saying I want this I want that that's right mind mind if I take a stab it's called edit editing by committee all right stab ince yeah sure yeah I can I think I can okay because you the saying first opening words is to educate all students by ensuring access to Superior app to a superior education allowing students to have choices and opportunities upon graduation something like that that's a lot like our vision statement
140though I mean we have access to Quality education I was getting at I was getting at like the you know choices and opportunities right we want kids when they leave us to have choices and opportunities so I can go to Duke University or I can go to Warden Junior College or I can uh become I can go to JY like I have choices and opportunities so I'm prepared for those choices and opportunities because the mission is to produce how we're going to get there right you prepare our students for choices and opportunities Beyond high schooling after after graduation yeah CU that's what the mission is supposed to be your end result is yeah what we can say to educate Joe says he lik what was that Mr hubac so help me with that draft there
141Dr educate all students by insuring access to Superior education um so students can you said I see it twice right yeah uh ensuring ensuring access to a superior education so that students will have choices and opportunities upon graduation I don't have a problem with the back half of it but the first half we're just repeating I just I just repeating the first thing yeah we could say we could educate and prepare educate and equip yeah our Miss statement is to educate and equip students to have choices and opportunities upon graduation yes team I think because our primary focus is academics but we also want them to have qualities Beyond academics to succeed I wouldn't mind see it written down I mean sure it's it's it's one of those kind of things it's easier to yeah
142yeah grasp when you see it I agree visual we must be so we we had every student versus all students conversation a minute AG go so I'm gonna need some guidance from the team to educate and then the the knowledge support and skills was another thing to to educate Roosevelt yes sir to educate all students to educate third time yes sir to educate all students so they will have choices and opportunities upon graduation it's like a so so they will or B so they what so they will have choices and opportunities you can say post lcisd or upon graduation but when they leave lcisd they'll have choices and opportunities in the real world success in the real world upon graduating yes graduating gradu either one either one I mean because that that that assumes that
143you're going to graduate right and you have choice and opportunities when you graduate on graduation graduating doesn't matter to educate all students so they will have choices and opportunities upon can we elaborate in there somewhere H we say to educate and equip with blah blah blah or yeah to educate and prepare all students so your point earlier was to to provide or to equip students with knowledge support and skills or anything I mean just equip them with skills or I don't know with Knowledge and Skills you know in the in one of the priorities it talked about uh Li not life skills what was it uh one of the priorities talk about equipping students with skills for life or skills living something like that I don't have it in front of me but I wonder
144if he say something I've seen a lot of college career in Life or something like that you know um to prepare all students or to Ed educate all students prepare I like prepare Wonder all students not my vision statement all students seems very basic I'm I'm like Mr cuac over here I like it to the point what's that I like it it's to the point it's not too that's yeah and that was the to flowery or anything mission statement should be clear concise and focused right you say to prepare all students with Knowledge and Skills so they so they have choices and opportunities upon graduation not will have but needed to pursue choices to to prepare all students with Knowledge and Skills so they have so they may pursue choices and opportunities upon graduation pursue
145choices meaningful choices I think have OPP have choices have choices and opportunities upon graduation choices and opportunities so word for about the connection now right thinking about the connection between they and choices what what's going to be filling that instead of saying they will have choice and opportunities we're looking at to say what they so they have so they I me we want them to go somewhere after we want some we want them to go somewhere after grad graduation we want them to do something so they will have choices they have a choice to sit on their couch but we so they will so that they will pursue meaningful choices and and opportunities so they pursue because they they already have Choice they're going to have a choice you can Cho you can choose to
146be naughty or you can choose to be not naughty right right right you can but we want them to make choices to go and meaningful that's what I just said so they will have meaningful choices and opportunities upon graduation so because I mean we want them those choices to be are we okay with meaningful or yeah I I don't know if I like the word have so they pursue meaning full choices and opportunities because they're going after something they have to go for that to prepare all students with the knowledge and skill Knowledge and Skills so they so they pursue meaningful choices and opportunities upon graduation we we want that action they need to make a choice and do something or for them to pursue to prepare all students with with Knowledge and Skills in
147order to in order to pursue I think not so they doesn't order to pursue choices and opportunities upon graduation meaningful choices or choices meaningful choices we okay with meaningful choices gang uh who's not okay with it I'm not against it I'm just saying you know one person's Jiffy Lube I want to make a career of it is another person's wasted life that's their yeah yeah write it down that's right choices and opportunities we're giving it's upon them to make the the meaning so but write it down write it down I'm not opposed to it I'm just trying not to be big thinking choices meaningful choices means we have more um that we have we think that they're going to be able to do it yeah meaningful you know for for my kid meaningful at JY
148may be the greatest thing in the world and and you know I so it's it's it's depends on depends on perspective yall think prepare or Equip to prepare not preparing them prepare with knowledge equip provide equip with Knowledge and Skills you know prepare with Knowledge and Skills I think it's cleaner to say to prepare all students for them to pursue meaningful choices and opportunities upon graduation to prepare all students with Knowledge and Skills to for them for them to purs to pursue pursue I I I would to prepare students with Knowledge and Skills to pursue meaningful choices and opportunities in order to pursue is how it's prepare all students with Knowledge and Skills two% equip and prepare all students with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue iety opportunities of B graduation there you goip
149and prepare say that again to equip and prepare all students with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue a variety of opportunities upon graduation and on a poster we would that with the portrait of a graduat like if we did something like that we would have that on there with it to be more explanatory I would think like if we portrait of a graduate we would take something like that and put it on there but with more visuals of what that actually means more details and what what does that mean everyone hear what Joe say can you say it again please my wife must be watching it because she just texted me a to equip and prepare tell I'm going read hers as well okay to equip and prepare all students with the knowledge and
150skills needed to pursue a variety of opportunities upon graduation or to prepare students with a high quality education that ensures they are prepared for their future endeavors yes say that's good others let me try that one are we okay with equip and prepare anyone not okay with that stay on the path to equip and prepare all students with the Knowledge and Skills I'm not sure I like variety we can f with that it's your your to equip and prepare all students with the Knowledge and Skills Joe needed to pursue a variety of opportunities upon graduation I'm not in love with variety yeah did he what we see need to pursue meaningful meaningful or Limitless what meaningful or Limitless meaningful is fine what meaningful what choices and opportunities meaningful what whatever I'll shut up to equip
151and prepare all students with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue meaningful ask no go with he's waiting for us to I'm thinking after graduation can you put after graduation after graduation yes because our goal is to get him to that point and prepare them for the next and prepare them for the next okay okay so our current draft of a mission is to equip and prepare all students with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue meaningful choices and opportunities after graduation our current one current statement says something about full potential do we care about that is that something that is needed they're ready for Meaningful meaningful choices GNA be that that's the same thing yeah I mean I think meaningful meaningful gets it to me because a student who has um some challenges versus
152a student who who's who's born on third base meaningful meaningful is going to mean different things to to to each each scenario good I say it's good to equip and prepare all students with the knowledge skills Knowledge and Skills needed to pursue meaningful choices and opportunities after graduation it's much better than what we have now with only half the words I T her to take the old one put it Ai and see what it's spit so a vision of we are a value driven Community where Innovation drives Excellence is the standard and every student has access to high quality education how are we going to get there we to equip we're to equip and prepare all students with knowledge and skills needed to pursue meaningful choices and opportunities after graduation and so by doing that
153we will create an environment where employees want to work where people want to stay here is that implied is that something that's I mean that's part of the strap plan that was consistent with all the meetings is that employees and choosing to work here yeah so that would be a byproduct of that can I make it like a little bit more inspiring and Y y'all can tell me it sucks it's okay but to equip every student with the Knowledge and Skills to pursue meaningful opportunities after graduation and To Boldly shape Futures filled with purpose possibility and impact it's your Pizzaz at the end that's your catch that's your I mean that works it's your P that's got pop it's got it's that it's that pop that we were looking at more so than be the
154Legacy or say the last of and after graduation and To Boldly shape Futures filled with purpose possibility and impact I like the impact and and are and are you you're every student not an all students person right I it doesn't matter doesn't matter okay it doesn't matter me either maybe with the possibility part to equip and prepare all students with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue meaningful choices and opportunities after graduation and To Boldly shaped Futures filled with purpose Poss ability and impact I'm getting old so my your hearing is not as good as used to be and To Boldly shape Futures filled with purpose possibility sorry shape Futures future Futures shape Futures Futures filled with purpose possibility and impact purpose possibility and impact is it the same thing I don't I don't well
155more or L toip and prepare alls To Boldly shape features fill with purpose possibility and impact I don't know I just feel like I think the first part is really basic and then the second part's really not basic like like country m city I I I kind of I kind of like this um this is what we're doing here we're going to prepare them the graduation and after they graduate because of this they're going to be able to do that you a beginning a middle and an end I like it we want them to leave thousand times better than when they came to us yeah and and and live live a Purpose Driven Life after leaving here yes and that goes back to what that goes back to the whole child because if I'm just
156providing knowledge in their brain I'm not I'm not providing kind of the development to live a purpose-filled life if they're not taking care of themselves some somebody is taking care of them let's face it either Society or their parents Zach our president Lambert I think we got two good statements that we can let our AP teachers you you have a to give your English teachers so if if if we can live with this then the next steps are to approve this on May the 5th to approve both vision and Mission and then um approve the O the overall strategic plan and then the the the final step is to implement this High performing organizations the board then will will will Define and adopt their own goals the board's goals will then drive superintendent goals superintendent
157goals then drive uh School leader School site and school leader goals that drive all the way down to teacher goals and so what's happening in the classroom so what happens you can't have a functional classroom if you don't have a functional boardroom and we want our teachers to have uh their their lesson plans we want them to have goals that starts with you and comes all the way down through the superintendent through the principal to the teachers to the kids that's been my experience of 20 years and um and U watching other folks in in high performing organizations questions comments suggestions so if we give this to Sonia maybe she could take the spirit of it and make like a few other yes she can she can take this and make and make some other
158options for the board to consider she can take this and make one option she can do I mean you know you seen her work she can do whatever okay yeah yeah so the direction of the board to let me know if you want her to take these two and come up with multiple options of each one for you to consider and like vote on one or do you want her just to have one alternative option for the mission one alternative option for the vision is basically just uh how the board wants is what we can do statement has to have we in it got and for just clean it up and make it tighter if she needs to we know she there might be other words out there that we didn't use that would yeah
159Theus is a wonderful thing abut I think we go and have her create one alternate for each one okay and don't go too deep into too many choices yes sir I got you so is May 5th for the whole board May 5th is that's her May May 5th is the is when we is when the board approves the entire strategic plan that will include the Mission Vision core values priorities the whole plan then after that as if you go back to that pyramid for please Dr scrip that pyramid and then once the board approves that then my team and I we do the goals and objectives for the soup and and the action plan on how we get there how do you create you would we would as a board need to get together and
160create our goals that's what we're going to do this summer so after after the election we have new trustees on board uh that board will be in place for two years and so then as soon as they get on board sometime in June we'll talk about u u creating board goals from the Strategic plan that has been approved right and then from there that's when you and your team do from there I do yeah from there I create my goals board approves my goals and then we do District goals campus goals teacher goals all that that's good work to do in the summer for for the board yeah and and you'll feel like you could have momentum because you know your community involved in this and yeah all right any other questions or discussions no
161but thank you for being here yeah thank you do appreciate thank you all this has been great all right it is 8:41 the meeting is adjourned