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Westlake Academy
January 13, 2014
Giving Clarity to Our Vision
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Vision = Our Destination as an Organization
“Westlake Academy inspires students to achieve their highest individual potential
in a nurturing environment that fosters the traits found in the IB learner profile.”
Our current WA Vision Statement has 4 basic components. They are:
1. Inspiring students
2. Our students achieving their highest individual potential
3. Offering a nurturing environment for our students
4. Fostering in our students the IB learner profile traits
Clarifying Statements
~ “WA engages students to be life-long learners through motivation to set goals and
a destination for the future by providing individual attention and space to grow.”
~ “WA’s teachers, parents, and students will create a culture that encourages open
communication where there are no limits, challenging, guiding, and encouraging
discovery, which ignites a person’s desire to continuously learn and passionately
engage in life.”
~ “Parents and teachers collaboratively engage students in authentic learning to
produce intrinsically motivated student who reflect and act.”
~ “Students of all academic levels and abilities are inspired to learn. How do we
know they are inspired? They come to class, they participate, they do their
homework, they go above and beyond what is expected.”
Defining Principle for Vision Component # 1:
“Westlake Academy inspires students…”
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Clarifying Statements
~ “WA creates a positive, supportive, safe environment where stakeholders promote
and develop self-awareness and integrity.”
~ “WA will allow students self-exploration, risk taking, and the ability to be different
while maintaining a set of guidelines/policies/a roadmap that is tied to #1 and #2. To
educate, raise, bring up, and establish global citizenship.”
~ “A nurturing environment will manifest itself as a culture of acceptance and
tolerance for differences in ideas, opinions, and aptitudes. This will encourage
discovery, risk-taking, and problem-solving within a framework of well-defined
expectations and consequences.”
~ “WA students feel safe and supported and are in an environment where they
belong and where their self-worth is continually (affirmed?).”
Defining Principle for Vision Component #3:
“Westlake Academy inspires
students…in a nurturing environment…”
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Clarifying Statements
~ “Just do it. Foster it.”
~ “Self-defining.”
~ “The WA community makes explicit the actions and values that make one an
internationally-minded person who can change his or her environment for the
better.”
~ “-“
Defining Principle for Vision Component #4:
“Westlake Academy…fosters the
traits found in the IB learner profile.”
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Clarifying Statements
~ “The stakeholders of WA provide the support students need to be confident and
gain maturity to realize their potential dreams and interests through the IB Learner
Profile.”
~ “WA, at a minimum, will prepare students for college success while focusing on
student growth and developing a hunger for more.”
~ “Identify and address different learning styles while promoting an environment
that maximizes academic and real-life learning to produce a responsible, engaged
citizen.”
~ “Students are inspired to set high standards for themselves and are supported by
faculty, staff, and parents, to achieve them.”
Defining Principle for Vision Component # 2:
“Westlake Academy inspires students to
achieve their highest individual potential…”
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•Are we doing the things outlined in the Vision Statement?
•How do we know if/when we’ve reached our “destination?” (i.e., vision)
•How do we define our students’ post-secondary success?
•What is our value proposition?
•IB Learner Profile in MYP/DP?
•Educated parents - a need?
-Do the clarifying statements get at the intentions of the Board in the stated
vision statement?
-Are we in agreement on highest individual potential? Is it preparing our
students to take on the “fork in the road” that they choose?
- college, vocational school, work environment, military, etc.
Questions for Review
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