ABSTRACT
— Gaps are the differences between where the school district wants to be and where it is right now. A vision is what the district would look like, sounds like, and feels like when it is carrying out its purpose and mission. To be effective in getting all staff members in all schools implementing the same concepts, a vision must be spelled-out in specific terms that everyone can commit to and understand in the same way. School districts and schools often want to attempt too many goals, and very few get implemented. The reason for digging deeper is that a large gap may not seem as large when one discovers that the students in the area with the largest gap scored only one or two points away from mastery, while the students not mastering the subtest with the smallest gap could be on the very bottom of the distribution— a long way from mastery.
