Standard One: Strategic Leadership
School executives will create conditions that result in strategically re-imaging the school's vision, mission, and goals in the 21st century. Understanding the schools ideally prepare students for an unseen but not altogether unpredictable future, the leader creates a climate of inquiry that challenges the school community to continually re-purpose itself by building on its core values and beliefs about its preferred future and then developing a pathway to reach it.
Element IA. School Vision, Mission and Strategic Goals
The school's identity, in part, is derived from the vision, mission, values, beliefs and goals of the school, the processes used to establish these attributes, and the ways they are embodied in the life of the school community.
Darden's Vision & Mission
VISION: Darden will be a school where community and family are valued. It will be a place where students desire to attend and have positive, productive attitudes toward learning, excel in their studies and leave prepared to succeed in the academic rigor of high school.
MISSION: Our mission is to take responsibility and hold ourselves accountable for our students' total education so that they may become the successful, lifelong learners and caring, productive citizens we envision them to be.
MISSION: Our mission is to take responsibility and hold ourselves accountable for our students' total education so that they may become the successful, lifelong learners and caring, productive citizens we envision them to be.
1B. Leading Change
The school executive articulates a vision, and implementation strategies, for improvements and changes which result in improved achievement for all students.
1C. School Improvement Plan
The school improvement plan provides the structure for the vision, values, goals and changes necessary for improved achievement for all students.
School Leadership Team Member
Darden uses the Indistar platform to house our School Improvement Plan. As a member of Darden's School Improvement (Leadership) Team, I met twice a month with the team for progress monitoring of school improvement goals and action items. [see the artifact below for Darden's comprehensive progress report of our School Improvement Plan for the 2018-19 academic year]
1D. Distributive Leadership
The school executive creates and utilizes processes to distribute leadership and decision-making throughout the school.