Califon Public School Finalizing Shared Vision

Parents, teachers, support staff, and Board of Education members have been working on writing “core belief statements.” These belief statements will serve to help the school community to draft a “Shared Vision Statement.”

The belief statements will be approved by the Board at its meeting scheduled for January 21. The goal is to have the entire written shared vision statement approved by the Board on March 18.

A shared school vision is a written statement that is developed with input from all of the school community’s stakeholder groups. Specifically, the written statement describes, in detail; what the school’s educational program and overall environment should look like in the present and in the future.

Everyone in the Califon community, whether you have children in school or not, may help in this effort. If you choose to do so, please write a few belief statements that describe your views about education and bring them to the school office or email to Sue Dyer – sdyer@califonschool.org .

The following seven prompts are meant to provide you with a start at writing belief statements. You may choose to use some or all of these prompts and / or decide to write belief statements that reference other areas of schooling. You may write as many belief statements that you wish.

I believe that…

1. School should teach_
2. A good school is one that
3. A successful student is able to
4. An effective classroom is one in which
5. A good school staff member (i.e., teacher, principal, supervisor) is one who
6. An effective school faculty is one that
7. A quality instructional program includes

Thank you in advance for your continued cooperation and support of our school district!

Last modified: April 3, 2022