Examples

Each person affiliated with our school is a valued, needed member of the Curtis Viking community. Every Viking is responsible for promoting positive learning opportunities in a caring, equitable manner.  This environment will enable all to develop fully their academic¹,emotional², social³, and physical⁴ potential and, thus be empowered to assume responsible citizenship⁵ in our local⁶, national, and global⁷ communities. To this end, we value achievement, respect² and concern for others², affiliation and pride, diversity, equity and opportunity, communication, safety⁸ and order, collaboration, responsibility and accountability, and trust² as cornerstones of our learning community.

Using our coding rubric, eight different themes were observed for the Curtis High School mission statement:

¹cognitive development, ²emotional development, ³social development, ⁴physical development, ⁵civic development, ⁶local community, ⁷global community, ⁸safe environment

Here is a second example mission statement from the Pierson Vocational High School in Nogales, Arizona. Note how this mission statement has greater focus on cognitive/academic development as well as a citizenship component:

Pierson Vocational High School’s Philosophy is to inspire all students to develop marketable 21st century skills. These skills include reading, writing, mathematics, computer knowledge, collaboration and the integrity of being a responsible and productive citizen.