Vision, Mission, Goals & Implementation Ep. #1

The podcast discusses the alignment of a school's vision, mission, and goals and how it impacts the implementation in school districts. It explores how technology adoption aligns with these objectives and the importance of belief and passion in achieving them. The podcast emphasizes the need for clear vision and mission statements that lead to actionable goals and plans. It also highlights the significance of inspiring and supporting teachers in order to have effective implementation. The speaker suggests that technology adoption should be simple at first and gradually integrated into the school culture. It should support future endeavors, develop essential skills, and provide real-world experiences. The key lessons include the importance of shared vision, inspiration, real-world applications, innovation, critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication. Overall, alignment of vision, mission, and goals is crucial for successful implementation, and technology adoption sho Welcome to our podcast today, Aspiring to be Awesome by April Allen. Today we're looking at how our school's vision, mission, and goals align or not align and how that affects the implementation in our school districts. We will be exploring how technology adoption and that implementation align with those vision, mission, and goals. How will the alignment either be weak or strong with teachers? And lastly, we'll be looking at key lessons and takeaways for understanding the crosswalk of vision, mission, and goals in our technology adoption plan. As I was researching vision and really what the vision of schools should be, there are some essential questions that I think we have to ask and so this can apply to teams, it can apply to organizations, it can apply to our schools, but I read a few of these essential questions and I think they are important to start us out today. So what is our team's reason for existence or what is our organization's reason for existence? What is our picture for the future and what do you want to be true in the future that is not true today? What will be the core beliefs or values which you operate and how will we behave on a day-to-day basis to achieve our vision? When looking at leading others, people are going to believe in things that you are passionate about, that you have an excitement, a joy, you are beaming with light about it. You are fulfilling your purpose and you are in the correct role that you should be for your career. So I think a vision needs to be about the why and why we believe this. You need to express your beliefs behind your vision, explaining your thoughts, your emotions, and why you feel that it's important that your organization or your team has that vision. I think the vision aligns with the mission because it leads into the mission statement. It's going to help the mission statement be clear and provide a clear picture about how you will implement each day the vision and your beliefs. We lead into the question of how. Mission statements are about how we're going to do it and that leads then into the goals and to our action plans. Goals need to have action plans. When we are aligning the vision and mission statements, we have to remember that they have to be adaptable. They have to be revised. It is continual growth and support for the future. A vision and mission statement align with the goals because you're showing those action plans. Goals may not align if teachers, community, parents don't believe in your why, they don't believe in your mission or your vision. If teachers believe your why, they will implement. They will be passionate. They will find hours through research and to find resources that support it. If leaders effectively implement their vision, their mission and the goals that they have for their teachers, that is going to be a very effective implementation, a lot of buy-in. If leaders don't inspire or follow through or show vulnerability, they're going to fail with that implementation and it's going to be weak. As I think about my responses for the vision, for mission, for goals and really having those essential questions answered, why are we doing this, what is our future belief, what is our clear picture for our mission and what are the actions that we are going to take, when I think about that with technology adoption and implementation, how does that align with my vision, mission, statement and my goals? I kind of made bullet points here for this and so I think technology adoption will align if technology feels like it belongs. Technology needs to be simple at first until teachers believe in the why or they're introduced to the why we're doing this. Technology needs to be part of our culture. It needs to be a part of every day. Technology needs to support our future endeavors and technology should help students develop those 21st century skills, those habits of mind, problem solving and I absolutely believe in real world applications so technology should help them in real world authentic career experiences. Technology should definitely support that. Technology adoption should provide those authentic career experiences with individuals that can show our students and our staff how it applies in a real world. Some key lessons that I'm taking away from this today, my understanding with vision, mission and goals is that we have to believe in the same vision. We need to believe that the same thing is thought through with technology. We need to inspire and be inspired with technology. Lessons need to be real world. They need to be real data applications and they need to be authentic real world experiences, current events. Tech needs to be innovative. Technology adoption needs to include critical thinking. It needs to include creativity. It needs to involve collaboration and communication and ultimately I think it needs to make us grow together or become more like one as a staff. Just to recap, I do believe that the vision aligns with the mission statement. It creates a clear future picture. Our mission statement is providing us with how we're going to implement it each day. Our goals align with our vision and mission because it's showing action and to be effective with our implementation and our technology, it needs to be authentic, it needs to be real world and teachers need to believe in your why and they need to have that same thinking you will find passion and implementation will work well.