Our urban communities are barren islands in a land of plenty, waste places offering a dismal future with little hope of escape.
A good mission statement helps a preschool articulate its purpose and define its focus.
Christian Academy of Louisville has nearly quadrupled in the past few years and in the next school year will have a PK–12 enrollment of over nineteen hundred.
Asking about a school’s mission is a way of penetrating to the core of its existence to see whether it can clearly identify what it is about.
A school's mission shapes its identity (reason for being, purpose, focus, goal), gives a sense of direction and purpose, unifies the school community, and provides a foundation on which to build its future.
How clear is your school’s mission statement?
whether your resources are large or small, good financial management is necessary to implement the objectives of the school.
The strategic plan is developed from the institutional mission statement, or the statement of purpose.
Jesus as chief executive officer and His twelve disciples are viewed in this book as a leadership team.
Effective organizations have a vision that gives their members a sense of purpose, direction, and an ideal future.
I define "vision" as a clear, articulate statement of "what our students will be like if our school serves them effectively."
In order to stay focused on the mission, it is valuable to identify those roadblocks and assess the extent of their impact on our schools.
The key indicators of a school’s commitment to deliver its mission are visibility of the mission statement, faculty and staff ownership of the mission, a results orientation, and an understanding of what produces results.
Best of Show from ACSI art competition 1999
Not being committed to its mission can leave a school wandering in the wilderness of mediocrity.
Christian schools want their students to impact the world for Christ’s Kingdom. Members of the Christian school board are uniquely positioned to guide and perpetuate that most worthy mission.
Throughout its eighty-eight-year history the Christian nature of Seoul Foreign School has varied significantly.
Who would want to send their children to a school that can’t express its purpose, its reason-for-being, its goals?