Visioning Onward
A Guide for All Schools
Christine Y. Mason
- Founder and Executive Director, Center for Educational Improvement
Paul W. Liabenow
- Executive Director, MEMSPA
Melissa D. Patschke
- Principal, Upper Providence Elementary School
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The step-by-step guide to defining your vision—and making it reality
As a leader, it’s your job to look beyond the present and envision a brighter future for your school. Choosing the right path, however, can be a challenge.
This inspirational resource is your guide. By following its one-of-a-kind iterative visioning process, you’ll sharpen your vision into a road map for transformative change—tailored to the needs of your learning community. Features include:
- Key strategies and tools for building a shared vision
- Practical implementation ideas
- Case studies from exemplary schools
- Common trends at the heart of impactful, positive change
- Thought-provoking vignettes
Turn vision into reality, possibilities into plans, and create an environment that strengthens engagement, provides safe and nurturing learning opportunities, and produces students with the skills, knowledge, and disposition to be successful in life.
Contents
List of Online Resources
List of Online Resources
Foreword by Daniel A. Domenech
Foreword by Daniel A. Domenech
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
PART I: HISTORICAL AND 21st CENTURY CONSIDERATIONS FOR VISIONING ONWARD
- 1. The Art of Seeing
- How Leaders of Learning Transition From Believing It to Seeing It
- Visioning Onward: Preparing for Challenges
- What Is the Role of Schools Today?
- The Opportunity That Is Opening for Schools
- Why Visioning?
- The Powerful Impact of Visioning
- Visioning—Permission to Thrive and Change
- Some Additional Considerations—In the Long Term
- Conclusions—Visions and Our Day-to-Day Reality
- 2. Believe It to See It: Creating a Vision
- Ancient Visions—Burning Cities and Prophecies
- Visioning in Modern Times—Dewey to Today
- Is Visioning Still Relevant in 2020?
- Why Do We Encourage Schools to Embrace Visioning?
- Visioning—One Secret of Uncommon Leadership
- It Takes a Team
- Community Building: How Much Involvement Do You Anticipate?
- Factors to Consider for Visioning at Your School or District
- How Do Visions Relate to a School’s Purpose?
- Visioning and ESSA
- Visioning in Schools—Opportunities Today to Recreate Education
- Where Is Your School (Or District) Headed?
- Conclusions—Visioning in a Time of Uncertainty and Implications for Schools
- 3. 21st Century Concerns—Food for Thought
- Dreams, Visioning Onward, and Changes in Schools
- Do Visions Make a Difference?
- Five Great Companies
- Comparing Visions
- Visions as Disruptions
- Visions, Missions, and Successful Ventures
- How Innovations Have Disrupted Our Lives
- Visioning—Various Lenses
- Holistic Understanding
- Group Effort
- Knowledge and Values
- Visions That Incorporate Many Perspectives
- Visioning Is Not Missioning
- Visioning Onward for School Improvement
- Dreams, Visioning Onward, and Changes in Schools
- Conclusions—Collectively Visioning Outside the Box
PART II: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND STEPS TO VISIONING IN SCHOOLS
- 4. Visioning: Steps 1–4
- Doing the Work
- So How Will You Proceed With Visioning at Your School?
- Some Prerequisites—Biding Time, Building Trust
- An Example of Where Visions Might Take You—Green Schools
- Visioning—Light-Years Beyond Ordinary (Path 1)
- Another Need—Visioning to Handle a Crisis (Path 2)
- Considerations for the Visioning Process
- A Recommended Eight-Step Visioning Process
- Step 1—Form a Vision Steering Team, and Develop a Visioning Process Blueprint
- Before the Visioning Process Begins
- Step 2—Identify Participants for the Visioning Process
- Step 3—Develop the First Draft of Your Vision, and Imagine Your School the Way You Would Like It to Be
- Step 4—Research Exemplars and Options
- Conclusions—Borrowing From the Greats
- Resources and Ideas to Support the How of Visioning
- Iterative Visioning
- 5. Visioning Case Study
- The Opening of a New School—Upper Providence Elementary School (UPES)
- Visioning Questions for UPES
- Key Questions for Parents
- Thirteen Years Later—Refreshing Our Vision
- Staf-faculty Focus Group Questions
- UPE 5
- Pro-Social Pledge
- An Existing School With New Leadership at Spring City Elementary School
- Spring City Staff Entry Plan Questions
- Vision Questions for Spring City Staff
- Conclusions—Collaboration Is Key
- 6. Visioning Steps 5–8
- Steps 5–8
- Step 5—Refine Your Vision Using an Iterative Visioning Process
- Step 6—Develop Mission and Goal Statements, and Determine How to Measure Progress
- Mission Statements and the Strategic Planning Process
- Goals
- Measuring Progress
- Step 7—Secure Consensus. Ensure That You Are Communicating With Those Who Didn’t Participate or Who Have a Different Vision
- Step 8—Develop an Action Plan to Implement Your Vision
- How to Develop an Action Plan
- Conclusions—Developing an Action Plan as a Team
- 7. Barriers and Sustainability
- Vision, Mission, and Goals—Implementation
- Lead the Visioning Journey
- Obstacles on the Path
- What Processes Will Be Affected?
- Challenges in Implementing Heart Centered Learning
- Promoting Heart Centered Learning
- Implementing Visions Requires Change
- You’re Not Operating in a Vacuum
- Sustainability
- Focus, Priorities, and Goal Setting
- When Leadership Changes
- Conclusions—Leveraging Communities Near and Far to Overcome Barriers to Sustainability
PART III: VISIONING AT THE MACRO LEVEL
- 8. Future Visioning—Here and Across the Globe
- Trends in Education Affecting How Schools Operate
- Change and Its Drivers
- Technology and Our Way of Being and Doing
- Unwanted Side Effects of Too Much Technology
- Change Driver 1—Automating Choices
- Change Driver 2—Civic Superpowers
- Change Driver 3—Accelerating Brains
- Mindfulness and Executive Functioning
- Change Driver 4—Toxic Narratives
- Stress
- The Future of Employment
- Change Driver 5—Remaking Geographies
- Change Driver 6—Social Emotional and Heart Centered Learning
- Heart Centered Learning
- Implementing Heart Centered Learning
- International Concerns and Children’s Well-Being
- An Entrepreneurial Vision for Education on a Global Scale
- 9. Conclusion
- Leadership for Tomorrow
References
References
Index
Index
Resources
Companion Website
https://resources.corwin.com/visioningonwardDescription
The step-by-step guide to defining your vision—and making it reality
As a leader, it’s your job to look beyond the present and envision a brighter future for your school. Choosing the right path, however, can be a challenge.
This inspirational resource is your guide. By following its one-of-a-kind iterative visioning process, you’ll sharpen your vision into a road map for transformative change—tailored to the needs of your learning community. Features include:
- Key strategies and tools for building a shared vision
- Practical implementation ideas
- Case studies from exemplary schools
- Common trends at the heart of impactful, positive change
- Thought-provoking vignettes
Turn vision into reality, possibilities into plans, and create an environment that strengthens engagement, provides safe and nurturing learning opportunities, and produces students with the skills, knowledge, and disposition to be successful in life.
Contents
List of Online Resources
List of Online Resources
Foreword by Daniel A. Domenech
Foreword by Daniel A. Domenech
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
PART I: HISTORICAL AND 21st CENTURY CONSIDERATIONS FOR VISIONING ONWARD
- 1. The Art of Seeing
- How Leaders of Learning Transition From Believing It to Seeing It
- Visioning Onward: Preparing for Challenges
- What Is the Role of Schools Today?
- The Opportunity That Is Opening for Schools
- Why Visioning?
- The Powerful Impact of Visioning
- Visioning—Permission to Thrive and Change
- Some Additional Considerations—In the Long Term
- Conclusions—Visions and Our Day-to-Day Reality
- 2. Believe It to See It: Creating a Vision
- Ancient Visions—Burning Cities and Prophecies
- Visioning in Modern Times—Dewey to Today
- Is Visioning Still Relevant in 2020?
- Why Do We Encourage Schools to Embrace Visioning?
- Visioning—One Secret of Uncommon Leadership
- It Takes a Team
- Community Building: How Much Involvement Do You Anticipate?
- Factors to Consider for Visioning at Your School or District
- How Do Visions Relate to a School’s Purpose?
- Visioning and ESSA
- Visioning in Schools—Opportunities Today to Recreate Education
- Where Is Your School (Or District) Headed?
- Conclusions—Visioning in a Time of Uncertainty and Implications for Schools
- 3. 21st Century Concerns—Food for Thought
- Dreams, Visioning Onward, and Changes in Schools
- Do Visions Make a Difference?
- Five Great Companies
- Comparing Visions
- Visions as Disruptions
- Visions, Missions, and Successful Ventures
- How Innovations Have Disrupted Our Lives
- Visioning—Various Lenses
- Holistic Understanding
- Group Effort
- Knowledge and Values
- Visions That Incorporate Many Perspectives
- Visioning Is Not Missioning
- Visioning Onward for School Improvement
- Dreams, Visioning Onward, and Changes in Schools
- Conclusions—Collectively Visioning Outside the Box
PART II: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND STEPS TO VISIONING IN SCHOOLS
- 4. Visioning: Steps 1–4
- Doing the Work
- So How Will You Proceed With Visioning at Your School?
- Some Prerequisites—Biding Time, Building Trust
- An Example of Where Visions Might Take You—Green Schools
- Visioning—Light-Years Beyond Ordinary (Path 1)
- Another Need—Visioning to Handle a Crisis (Path 2)
- Considerations for the Visioning Process
- A Recommended Eight-Step Visioning Process
- Step 1—Form a Vision Steering Team, and Develop a Visioning Process Blueprint
- Before the Visioning Process Begins
- Step 2—Identify Participants for the Visioning Process
- Step 3—Develop the First Draft of Your Vision, and Imagine Your School the Way You Would Like It to Be
- Step 4—Research Exemplars and Options
- Conclusions—Borrowing From the Greats
- Resources and Ideas to Support the How of Visioning
- Iterative Visioning
- 5. Visioning Case Study
- The Opening of a New School—Upper Providence Elementary School (UPES)
- Visioning Questions for UPES
- Key Questions for Parents
- Thirteen Years Later—Refreshing Our Vision
- Staf-faculty Focus Group Questions
- UPE 5
- Pro-Social Pledge
- An Existing School With New Leadership at Spring City Elementary School
- Spring City Staff Entry Plan Questions
- Vision Questions for Spring City Staff
- Conclusions—Collaboration Is Key
- 6. Visioning Steps 5–8
- Steps 5–8
- Step 5—Refine Your Vision Using an Iterative Visioning Process
- Step 6—Develop Mission and Goal Statements, and Determine How to Measure Progress
- Mission Statements and the Strategic Planning Process
- Goals
- Measuring Progress
- Step 7—Secure Consensus. Ensure That You Are Communicating With Those Who Didn’t Participate or Who Have a Different Vision
- Step 8—Develop an Action Plan to Implement Your Vision
- How to Develop an Action Plan
- Conclusions—Developing an Action Plan as a Team
- 7. Barriers and Sustainability
- Vision, Mission, and Goals—Implementation
- Lead the Visioning Journey
- Obstacles on the Path
- What Processes Will Be Affected?
- Challenges in Implementing Heart Centered Learning
- Promoting Heart Centered Learning
- Implementing Visions Requires Change
- You’re Not Operating in a Vacuum
- Sustainability
- Focus, Priorities, and Goal Setting
- When Leadership Changes
- Conclusions—Leveraging Communities Near and Far to Overcome Barriers to Sustainability
PART III: VISIONING AT THE MACRO LEVEL
- 8. Future Visioning—Here and Across the Globe
- Trends in Education Affecting How Schools Operate
- Change and Its Drivers
- Technology and Our Way of Being and Doing
- Unwanted Side Effects of Too Much Technology
- Change Driver 1—Automating Choices
- Change Driver 2—Civic Superpowers
- Change Driver 3—Accelerating Brains
- Mindfulness and Executive Functioning
- Change Driver 4—Toxic Narratives
- Stress
- The Future of Employment
- Change Driver 5—Remaking Geographies
- Change Driver 6—Social Emotional and Heart Centered Learning
- Heart Centered Learning
- Implementing Heart Centered Learning
- International Concerns and Children’s Well-Being
- An Entrepreneurial Vision for Education on a Global Scale
- 9. Conclusion
- Leadership for Tomorrow
References
References
Index
Index
Resources
Companion Website
https://resources.corwin.com/visioningonwardReviews
Visioning Onward
A Guide for All Schools
January 2020 | 264 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 28/04/2023 | 9781071800157 | $39.95 |
| Lifetime | 28/04/2023 | 9781071801512 | $36.00 |
The step-by-step guide to defining your vision—and making it reality
As a leader, it’s your job to look beyond the present and envision a brighter future for your school. Choosing the right path, however, can be a challenge.
This inspirational resource is your guide. By following its one-of-a-kind iterative visioning process, you’ll sharpen your vision into a road map for transformative change—tailored to the needs of your learning community. Features include:
- Key strategies and tools for building a shared vision
- Practical implementation ideas
- Case studies from exemplary schools
- Common trends at the heart of impactful, positive change
- Thought-provoking vignettes
Turn vision into reality, possibilities into plans, and create an environment that strengthens engagement, provides safe and nurturing learning opportunities, and produces students with the skills, knowledge, and disposition to be successful in life.
Table Of Contents:
- List of Online Resources
- Foreword by Daniel A. Domenech
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- PART I: HISTORICAL AND 21st CENTURY CONSIDERATIONS FOR VISIONING ONWARD
- 1. The Art of Seeing
- How Leaders of Learning Transition From Believing It to Seeing It
- Visioning Onward: Preparing for Challenges
- What Is the Role of Schools Today?
- The Opportunity That Is Opening for Schools
- Why Visioning?
- The Powerful Impact of Visioning
- Visioning—Permission to Thrive and Change
- Some Additional Considerations—In the Long Term
- Conclusions—Visions and Our Day-to-Day Reality
- 2. Believe It to See It: Creating a Vision
- Ancient Visions—Burning Cities and Prophecies
- Visioning in Modern Times—Dewey to Today
- Is Visioning Still Relevant in 2020?
- Why Do We Encourage Schools to Embrace Visioning?
- Visioning—One Secret of Uncommon Leadership
- It Takes a Team
- Community Building: How Much Involvement Do You Anticipate?
- Factors to Consider for Visioning at Your School or District
- How Do Visions Relate to a School’s Purpose?
- Visioning and ESSA
- Visioning in Schools—Opportunities Today to Recreate Education
- Where Is Your School (Or District) Headed?
- Conclusions—Visioning in a Time of Uncertainty and Implications for Schools
- 3. 21st Century Concerns—Food for Thought
- Dreams, Visioning Onward, and Changes in Schools
- Do Visions Make a Difference?
- Five Great Companies
- Comparing Visions
- Visions as Disruptions
- Visions, Missions, and Successful Ventures
- How Innovations Have Disrupted Our Lives
- Visioning—Various Lenses
- Holistic Understanding
- Group Effort
- Knowledge and Values
- Visions That Incorporate Many Perspectives
- Visioning Is Not Missioning
- Visioning Onward for School Improvement
- Dreams, Visioning Onward, and Changes in Schools
- Conclusions—Collectively Visioning Outside the Box
- PART II: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND STEPS TO VISIONING IN SCHOOLS
- 4. Visioning: Steps 1–4
- Doing the Work
- So How Will You Proceed With Visioning at Your School?
- Some Prerequisites—Biding Time, Building Trust
- An Example of Where Visions Might Take You—Green Schools
- Visioning—Light-Years Beyond Ordinary (Path 1)
- Another Need—Visioning to Handle a Crisis (Path 2)
- Considerations for the Visioning Process
- A Recommended Eight-Step Visioning Process
- Step 1—Form a Vision Steering Team, and Develop a Visioning Process Blueprint
- Before the Visioning Process Begins
- Step 2—Identify Participants for the Visioning Process
- Step 3—Develop the First Draft of Your Vision, and Imagine Your School the Way You Would Like It to Be
- Step 4—Research Exemplars and Options
- Conclusions—Borrowing From the Greats
- Resources and Ideas to Support the How of Visioning
- Iterative Visioning
- 5. Visioning Case Study
- The Opening of a New School—Upper Providence Elementary School (UPES)
- Visioning Questions for UPES
- Key Questions for Parents
- Thirteen Years Later—Refreshing Our Vision
- Staf-faculty Focus Group Questions
- UPE 5
- Pro-Social Pledge
- An Existing School With New Leadership at Spring City Elementary School
- Spring City Staff Entry Plan Questions
- Vision Questions for Spring City Staff
- Conclusions—Collaboration Is Key
- 6. Visioning Steps 5–8
- Steps 5–8
- Step 5—Refine Your Vision Using an Iterative Visioning Process
- Step 6—Develop Mission and Goal Statements, and Determine How to Measure Progress
- Mission Statements and the Strategic Planning Process
- Goals
- Measuring Progress
- Step 7—Secure Consensus. Ensure That You Are Communicating With Those Who Didn’t Participate or Who Have a Different Vision
- Step 8—Develop an Action Plan to Implement Your Vision
- How to Develop an Action Plan
- Conclusions—Developing an Action Plan as a Team
- 7. Barriers and Sustainability
- Vision, Mission, and Goals—Implementation
- Lead the Visioning Journey
- Obstacles on the Path
- What Processes Will Be Affected?
- Challenges in Implementing Heart Centered Learning
- Promoting Heart Centered Learning
- Implementing Visions Requires Change
- You’re Not Operating in a Vacuum
- Sustainability
- Focus, Priorities, and Goal Setting
- When Leadership Changes
- Conclusions—Leveraging Communities Near and Far to Overcome Barriers to Sustainability
- PART III: VISIONING AT THE MACRO LEVEL
- 8. Future Visioning—Here and Across the Globe
- Trends in Education Affecting How Schools Operate
- Change and Its Drivers
- Technology and Our Way of Being and Doing
- Unwanted Side Effects of Too Much Technology
- Change Driver 1—Automating Choices
- Change Driver 2—Civic Superpowers
- Change Driver 3—Accelerating Brains
- Mindfulness and Executive Functioning
- Change Driver 4—Toxic Narratives
- Stress
- The Future of Employment
- Change Driver 5—Remaking Geographies
- Change Driver 6—Social Emotional and Heart Centered Learning
- Heart Centered Learning
- Implementing Heart Centered Learning
- International Concerns and Children’s Well-Being
- An Entrepreneurial Vision for Education on a Global Scale
- 9. Conclusion
- Leadership for Tomorrow
- References
- Index
Recent Product Reviews:
Visioning Onward is the right book for any leader who aims to be a visionary champion for their school or organization and bring about transformational change. Co-authors Christine Mason, Paul Liabenow, and Melissa Patschke challenge readers through a series of critical questions, activities, examples, resources, and authentic voices to help us establish a sense of purpose in the way we lead and learn on a daily basis. Each chapter reminds us that it is more than just seeing the vision but doing the work in a way that helps us achieve that vision. This book provides a blueprint to do just that.
Jimmy Casas, Educator, Author, Speaker, Leadership Coach
Visioning Onward outlines the process and action steps for school leaders to create, share, and implement their vision for a school rather than adopting or adapting someone else’s vision. This practical guide is a must-read for all school leaders interested in creating and sustaining a school culture that continues to thrive and responds to changing times and one in which its stakeholders grow. The processes outlined in the book along with the case study examples make this a desk reference for every principal.
Paul M. Healey, Executive Director, PA Principals Association
After reading Visioning Onward, I feel inspired and compelled to share the thoughtful approach to building a collaborative shared vision with colleagues and graduate students. An essential for every principal’s desk, this is a practical, purposeful, and action-oriented guide for leaders. Embedded in the context of the book are valuable resources, exercises, and vignettes to aid leadership teams in developing a vision that is encouraging, innovative, and empathetic.
Robyn Conrad Hansen, NAU Assistant Professor of Practice, National Distinguished Principal, NAESP President 2015-2016
The most successful leaders don’t get to where they are by accident. They are strategic, purposeful, and visionary. Do you want these characteristics in your repertoire of leadership qualities? Then, grab a cup of coffee and a highlighter, and dig in to this invaluable resource. These three brilliant educators have built a step-by-step process to build, plan, and execute your vision. You won’t be disappointed.
Adam D. Drummond, Author and Thought Leader with the International Center for Leadership in Education
What a well-conceived book that recognizes how an organized approach to developing a school’s vision will work! The authors emphasize the need to allow each school team the freedom to design their own vision. The value of a school’s shared vision is stressed, and a systematic process is explained in detail. Visioning Onward demonstrates the critical need for each stakeholder’s voice and the importance this voice is to the acceptance of the developing vision. Included in the book are the potential barriers and a process to ensure sustainability. The authors have devoted an enormous amount of time collecting and creating a wealth of resources, examples, and exemplars. As a career veteran in public education and school leadership, I wish I could have read this before my first principalship! This book is truly an excellent resource.
Rich Barbacane, Office of Overseas Schools, RavenTek, State Department Liaison for NAESP, Co-Originator of the World Education Forum, USA, Past President of NAESP