ABSTRACT
Shared visions emerge from personal visions. This is how they derive their energy and how they foster commitment. If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign up' for someone else's. The result is compliance, never commitment. After analyzing the school data profile, clarifying where the learning organization is right now, and learning what is and is not working and why, it is important to study different approaches to improving results. Staff needs to study and discuss the implications of teaching the current and future student populations, and the changes needed in the school's curriculum, instruction, assessment, and learning environment approaches to implement best practices, and then create a vision for where they want to go. With new knowledge, a staff can implement new thinking and new strategies, as opposed to signing up for the same thing and getting the same results, or adding interventions and programs to fix the kids or to solve each problem.
