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Purposeful community :

Purposeful community : Is one with the collective efficacy and capability to develop and use assets to accomplish goals that matter to all community members through agreed-upon processes. What does this place care most about? Pervasive and consistent answer. What Do We Value?.

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Purposeful community :

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  1. Purposeful community: Is one with the collective efficacy and capability to develop and use assets to accomplish goals that matter to all community members through agreed-upon processes.

  2. What does this place care most about? Pervasive and consistent answer

  3. What Do We Value? • We put service to studentsabove all else. • We take responsibility for the success of all students. • We care passionatelyabout our work with children. • We build strong, positive relationships with students, staff, parents, and community. • We model and promote civilityandintegrity.

  4. Some examples of values of peak performers: • Values achievement, and finds his or her primary motivation through mission. • Values contribution, and thus seeks results in real time, and assists in the development of others. • Values creativity, and produces innovation through risk taking. • Values synergy, and looks for points of alignment among organizational, team and personal objectives. • Values opportunity, and meets the challenge of change. • Charles Garfield, Peak Performers

  5. Ideals and BeliefsWhat Is Our Purpose? • To improve the quality of human life. • To create schools in which every child learns at high levels. To secure America’s future—one student at a time!

  6. Personal Purpose Alignment To • Organizational Purpose

  7. Take a Tour: Everyone is out of the building—what are the symbols, the artifacts that convey what this place values?

  8. Values are behaviors that are truly lived.

  9. Values underlie Action

  10. Watch people and describe what is valued in your school. • What are the topics of conversation? • What is said about our professional practice? • How do we talk to our kids? • How do we describe our kids? • How do we work together or separately? • Do we share our practice? • Do we really value learning or just learning for kids?

  11. Values create commitment for the mission • Intensity is incomplete if you don’t know what you are intense about.

  12. Mission creates defined priorities and these help create focus for the organization. • Missions build vertical and lateral capacity.

  13. Mission • Management of Attention • Management of Meaning • Management of Self

  14. Values help organizations deal with complexity and change. • Values provide stability in times of significant organizational transition.

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