Valley Crafts Vision, Mission Statement
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By David [email protected]
Monday night, that strategic plan was presented to the public and approved by the school board.
Superintendent Brett Boggs said the process was started in late August with a committee of 30 folks.
“We finalized the plan a week ago, and we’re presenting it to the board tonight,” Boggs said.
The facilitators for the strategic plan were Dr. Bruce Stahly and Dr. Dennis Cahill of Administrator Assistance.
The first two pages of the strategic plan are lists of the committee members and subcommittee members. The subcommittees included student achievement; curriculum, instruction and evaluation; communication, marketing and community relations; and facilities and finance.
Tippecanoe Valley Middle School Assistant Principal Scott Backus said the committee spent a majority of time working on the vision and mission statements.
The vision states: “(TVSC) does whatever it takes to equip all students to be outstanding – today, tomorrow and beyond.” The mission statement reads: “(TVSC) is committed to student success through the development of character, leadership and literacy.”
Backus said the vision statement is a future-looking statement, while the mission statement is something Valley will use to make decisions and help move the corporation forward.
What stood out to Boggs in the vision statement, he said, was the word “outstanding.” “We want all of our kids to be outstanding,” he said.
Under “Core Values and Belief Statements,” the strategic plan states that TVSC “embraces the core values of collaboration, leadership, character and achievement.”
Regarding the core values, Boggs said early on the committee talked a lot about where Valley’s strengths are and where improvement needed to be made. “We developed value statements for each (of the core values),” he said.
Sub-committee members then talked about different goals.
TVMS Principal Blaine Conley said the first goal for student achievement was that “all students will perform at a high level.” Some of the objectives include that all students will graduate high school, 50 percent of TVHS graduates will earn college credit and all students will meet the state standard for Algebra I and English 10 End of Course Assessment.
Literacy Coach Kristen Horrell said a goal for curriculum, instruction and evaluation was that “100 percent of teachers and staff will have access to professional development.” One way Valley plans to accomplish that, she said, is that a curriculum council is being created for the school district.
Another goal for curriculum, according to Mentone Elementary Principal Angie Miller, is that “all certified staff will be in the top two categories of performance on the evaluation rubrics.”
Two years ago, Miller said, the state changed the evaluation process for teachers. Now, teachers are evaluated three times a year.
Talking about communication, marketing and community relations, Tippecanoe Valley High School Principal Kirk Doehrmann said a goal of TVSC is to “more efficiently use all forms of media to communicate with our students, parents and community.” That will include updating the corporation’s websites and streamlining current technologies.
Another goal under communication, Doehrmann said, was “to develop a marketing plan that helps retain current students.” Part of the way Valley will do that will be to “develop a culture of pride,” he said.
The third goal under communication, he concluded, is to “develop a marketing plan to attract students to our school district and attract students that live in our district who do not attend our schools.” Objectives within that goal will be to recruit students from outside the district, recruit students from Valley’s district that do not attend a Valley school, and implement the marketing plan.
Maintenance Director Todd Glenn talked about two of the three facilities and finance goals. The first goal is that TVSC will “maintain salaries and wages that attract quality candidates and are competitive with area school corporations.” The second goal is “to provide educational facilities that are safe and conducive to modern learning.”
Teacher representative Vonda Ryman discussed the last of the three goals of facilities and finance. She said school funding is getting cut at the state level and sometimes the national level, so Valley needs “to secure alternative sources of funding.”
She said strategies to meet that goal will include establishing a grants committee that includes TVSC staff, foundation representatives and other qualified persons.
Boggs told the board that Valley has nine total goals in four areas for its strategic plan.
“Just with these nine, it will be a great deal of work for us to accomplish,” he said.
The school corporation’s steering committee will oversee that the plan gets carried out, he said, and it will get started on right away.
“It’s a living, breathing thing that will continually change,” Boggs concluded.
Cahill applauded the work done by the committee. He said the strategic plan will be worthwhile for Valley because of the time and work put into it.
Board Vice President Mark Wise, who served on the committee, said he thought everyone worked well together. There was a lot of discussion put into it, he said.
After the board approved the strategic plan, Board President Bryan Murphy said, “A lot of hours went into that, I know. A lot of time went into it. It’s a good plan. I’m anxious to see it get going.”[[In-content Ad]]
Monday night, that strategic plan was presented to the public and approved by the school board.
Superintendent Brett Boggs said the process was started in late August with a committee of 30 folks.
“We finalized the plan a week ago, and we’re presenting it to the board tonight,” Boggs said.
The facilitators for the strategic plan were Dr. Bruce Stahly and Dr. Dennis Cahill of Administrator Assistance.
The first two pages of the strategic plan are lists of the committee members and subcommittee members. The subcommittees included student achievement; curriculum, instruction and evaluation; communication, marketing and community relations; and facilities and finance.
Tippecanoe Valley Middle School Assistant Principal Scott Backus said the committee spent a majority of time working on the vision and mission statements.
The vision states: “(TVSC) does whatever it takes to equip all students to be outstanding – today, tomorrow and beyond.” The mission statement reads: “(TVSC) is committed to student success through the development of character, leadership and literacy.”
Backus said the vision statement is a future-looking statement, while the mission statement is something Valley will use to make decisions and help move the corporation forward.
What stood out to Boggs in the vision statement, he said, was the word “outstanding.” “We want all of our kids to be outstanding,” he said.
Under “Core Values and Belief Statements,” the strategic plan states that TVSC “embraces the core values of collaboration, leadership, character and achievement.”
Regarding the core values, Boggs said early on the committee talked a lot about where Valley’s strengths are and where improvement needed to be made. “We developed value statements for each (of the core values),” he said.
Sub-committee members then talked about different goals.
TVMS Principal Blaine Conley said the first goal for student achievement was that “all students will perform at a high level.” Some of the objectives include that all students will graduate high school, 50 percent of TVHS graduates will earn college credit and all students will meet the state standard for Algebra I and English 10 End of Course Assessment.
Literacy Coach Kristen Horrell said a goal for curriculum, instruction and evaluation was that “100 percent of teachers and staff will have access to professional development.” One way Valley plans to accomplish that, she said, is that a curriculum council is being created for the school district.
Another goal for curriculum, according to Mentone Elementary Principal Angie Miller, is that “all certified staff will be in the top two categories of performance on the evaluation rubrics.”
Two years ago, Miller said, the state changed the evaluation process for teachers. Now, teachers are evaluated three times a year.
Talking about communication, marketing and community relations, Tippecanoe Valley High School Principal Kirk Doehrmann said a goal of TVSC is to “more efficiently use all forms of media to communicate with our students, parents and community.” That will include updating the corporation’s websites and streamlining current technologies.
Another goal under communication, Doehrmann said, was “to develop a marketing plan that helps retain current students.” Part of the way Valley will do that will be to “develop a culture of pride,” he said.
The third goal under communication, he concluded, is to “develop a marketing plan to attract students to our school district and attract students that live in our district who do not attend our schools.” Objectives within that goal will be to recruit students from outside the district, recruit students from Valley’s district that do not attend a Valley school, and implement the marketing plan.
Maintenance Director Todd Glenn talked about two of the three facilities and finance goals. The first goal is that TVSC will “maintain salaries and wages that attract quality candidates and are competitive with area school corporations.” The second goal is “to provide educational facilities that are safe and conducive to modern learning.”
Teacher representative Vonda Ryman discussed the last of the three goals of facilities and finance. She said school funding is getting cut at the state level and sometimes the national level, so Valley needs “to secure alternative sources of funding.”
She said strategies to meet that goal will include establishing a grants committee that includes TVSC staff, foundation representatives and other qualified persons.
Boggs told the board that Valley has nine total goals in four areas for its strategic plan.
“Just with these nine, it will be a great deal of work for us to accomplish,” he said.
The school corporation’s steering committee will oversee that the plan gets carried out, he said, and it will get started on right away.
“It’s a living, breathing thing that will continually change,” Boggs concluded.
Cahill applauded the work done by the committee. He said the strategic plan will be worthwhile for Valley because of the time and work put into it.
Board Vice President Mark Wise, who served on the committee, said he thought everyone worked well together. There was a lot of discussion put into it, he said.
After the board approved the strategic plan, Board President Bryan Murphy said, “A lot of hours went into that, I know. A lot of time went into it. It’s a good plan. I’m anxious to see it get going.”[[In-content Ad]]
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