Before we talk — your school's vision

1What is your principal's vision for the school?

A sentence or two is plenty. If your school has a strategic plan, a mission and identity goal, or an accreditation narrative already written, we'd love to hear about it.

I'm not sure yet — I need to ask

It's really helpful to know that. Print this page. Take these questions to your principal and come to our conversation with their thoughts rather than a guess, so we can spend our time together in the most helpful way possible.

2What is the most important thing your school is working toward this year?

3Based on that, who would you most want to form first?

• All our faculty and staff
• Our administrators and department chairs
• Our students
• Our campus ministry and religion teachers

4Is this tied to something already happening?

• An accreditation cycle or Catholic identity review
• The formation hours we need to provide our teachers each year
• A new principal, president, or superintendent
• Planning for next school year
• Nothing in particular — this is something we want to do

5Who else has to say yes to this?

• I can decide to move forward on this myself
• My principal or president will need to approve it
• The diocesan superintendent is involved
• It has to come out of a budget someone else controls

6Has your school tried anything like this before?

Faculty retreats, strengths assessments, mission and identity self-studies. What happened, and where did it fall short? There is no wrong answer here — knowing what has already been tried helps us make helpful and relevant suggestions.

7A year from now, what would you like to be different?

Describe it concretely. What would you see in a classroom, or hear in a department meeting, that you do not see or hear now?