At the top of our blog, you may have noticed that we have removed the "Belong, Learn, Contribute" tagline and added our vision and mission statements. You may also have wondered where these came from. Allow me to explain.
At the start of the school year, I led the staff through the process of developing some building goals for the 2012-13 school year. One of those goals was to create a vision and mission statement to guide our work with students. We wanted to define our purpose so it was clear to everybody working within our school. To do this, teachers were split into small groups and asked to come up with a word that defines what we do here. We also looked at feedback students had given at our beginning of the year assemblies. We took those words, displayed them on a smart board, then attempted to construct statements using what we felt were the most important words that captured the essence of what we want to do within the middle school. The staff then voted, and we narrowed our choices down to three finalists. We tweaked each choice one last time, then put them up for a vote using the surveymonkey.com website. What you see on our header is the final result of our work. When we are working at our best, our school will function as a unified team to challenge and inspire your child to succeed in the world. There are many things that will lead us there, but that is the ultimate goal. Our mission in trying to achieve that vision will be to collaborate with each other, and to support our students to be successful while we are challenging them to do their best. We believe these goals match what we want to do, collectively, as a school, and that they contribute to the Central Cambria School District mission.
As always, I welcome your feedback at csantini@cencam.org or 472-6505.
