Classroom Missions

Village teachers are elevating student voice through student-drafted mission statements in each classroom.

This year, as part of our Continous Improvement efforts at the school level, teachers are asking students what is important to them in their classroom community.  How will they, as students, show up for each other?  Students' voices are then captured as a classroom mission statement. Each mission statement is different because it reflects the classroom community that created it. 

Classroom Mission Statements support Continous improvement by reminding us

Who are we? What do we value?

 and by defining 

How will we work together? 

What do we want to accomplish? What are our goals?

We will feature different mission statements throughout this school year. 
Here is an example from one of our 4th and 5th grade multi-age classrooms.