What was the reaction of other students when you shared your vision statement? How did it make you feel about your vision?
If you didn’t yet share your vision, what were your challenges?
What was the reaction of other students when you shared your vision statement? How did it make you feel about your vision?
If you didn’t yet share your vision, what were your challenges?
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They seemed to think it made sense, but they didn’t have much to say about it. I felt that the lack of protest meant that they thought our vision statement was acceptable. I do worry that they weren’t interested by what we had to say, but that might have had something to do with the fact that they were eating their $2.25 lunhes.
The reaction of other students to our vision statement was varied from student to student. Some of the poeple I shared it with didn’t really have a response and others said they didn’t necessarily agree with it. I expected people to have the “no response” reaction because I didn’t think anyone would care that much, even though they should. However, when people said they didn’t agree with it I was surprised, but it didn’t make me feel different about the statement. I still stand behind it.
During a lunch period I went around to tables and shared my vision. The students didn’t have much response, and they all signed it. I think that many students didn’t know that they had school repersentatives to the board, so I explained what our role is. I also shared our thinking behind our vision statement. Overall it seemed that our vision statement was accepted. I was happy that others accepted the vision.
At first the sophies didn’t really understand our vision, but once they I explained it they liked it, and thought it was “catchy” and “do able”. It didn’t change how i feel about the vision, i still like it and i think they did too.
When i first shared my vision with other students, they didn’t really understand what i was talking about. Almost each time i would have to explain that i was in student office and that we had an overall goal or ‘vision’ for the year and everything we did was leading to that. Student would ask “so what are you even doing” and i would tell them about the t-shirt sale and a sale we will probably be doing at the craft fair, among other things. Telling them about the t-shirt made them talk about other things we could do. Telling the student about my vision, and talking about things we will be able to do senior year made me very excited about this year.
When I shared the student council vision statement to some students, I did not get a lot of reaction other than general approval. Some people thought that our actual statement (which isn’t complete yet) could be more explained. A few students questioned what exactly the purpose of this was and what tpye of a class Leadership 101 is.
The students did not seem to really care when I shared my vision statement on what I want to try and accomplish as a student rep to the board. I think it was hard for them to care because they do not understand exactly what a student rep to the board does. It is hard to share that information with them when I dont even know exactly what my role is.
we (freshmen) have decided that our vision is:
’2010 coming together and making a difference.’ when I shared our vision with some other freshmen, they all asked me what it meant and I said that it was saying that as freshmen, everybody is a little confused. we’re in a new school with new people and it should be our goal to come together and make the school a better place to be in.
I have not started to share our vision statement as we have not yet decided definately yet. This is a challenge as presumably you need a vision statement before you share it. We are thinking of something REALLY REALLY COOL though.
As a member of Site-Based Decision Making Council I was not able to create my vision due to the fact that I needed the rest of the groups input. Our next meeting is on November 15th and I have already had it added to the agenda. I believe that determining our vision will take a good amount of time because we, as a group, have always struggled with the question: “What are we striving to accomplish as an advisory council to thde principal?” I believe that once we have determined what our vision is and I begin to share it, the students will be unresponsive. I feel that this will happen becauses the majority of students do not know what Site-Based is.
My group and I first started to talk about our vision as Student Council last week. It was a lot more difficult than we thought it would be. Cassie, Alize and I all strongly believed in one thing, and that was Student Council is to make the Ithaca High School environment better. We never came to a consensus of what our vision statement exactly was, but we all strongly feel that Ithaca High School students should be more involved in the community. We want our school to be united within, but also to reach out.
While sharing my vision statement with my peers, the reactions I recieved were varied. Some people laughed and thought it was good, and others kind of looked at me like I was crazy. After I explained my vision most people began to understand where I was coming from and found my vision relatable. After sharing I feel as if the meaning of our vision is good except I feel as if it is too jokey and that we should make it a little bit more proffesional.
When i hollered at students to hear my vision statement they were at first a little curious but mostly not that interested. I got some funny looks. Soon enough though, a couple came around and enjoyed hearing my thoughts for the school. When i shared my statement it made me think of how much it related to different people in the school. I feel pretty confident about our ’09 vision statement bcause it is relatable to most and is catchy enough to be remembered. .mg
the freshman class’ vision was “2010 comming together and making a difference.” when i shared with some of my classmates, they were confuzed what they were sapose to do. i told them that our class wants to make sure that everyone can come together and help our class. by this i mean having fun and raise money for our class. about half of my signers want to know more about the fundraisers that our class will be doing this year.
Most people who I shared my class’s vision with didn’t really have much of a reaction to the statement. Most people had questions about our leadership class, which many haven’t heard of, and didn’t get why we were writing a vision statement. When I explained, they asked about the junior and what we were doing, but they were more interested in the junior class and in leadership class than in the vision statement. I guess it confirmed my feeling that our vision statement wasn’t very inspiring or exciting.
Although I only remembered to share my vision statement with two people, when I shared my vision statement, it was a little bit akward. Since our vision statement is, “Be you in the Schoo’” I felt really funny saying it and also got laughed at because I would not normaly talk like that. Besides the fact that I sounded really funny saying it, the general idea that everybody should be comfortable in school was approved. The challange for me was mostly that I just completely forgot until last night that I had to get my whole sheet signed by today, and last night it was too late to fix the fact that I had forgot.
During a lunch period I went around to tables and shared my vision. The students didn’t have much response, and they all signed it. I think that many students didn’t know that they had school repersentatives to the board, so I explained what our role is. I also shared our thinking behind our vision statement. Overall it seemed that our vision statement was accepted. I was happy that others accepted the vision..
I think that the while the vision statement, which Jill and I wrote, is all-inclusive it is much too lengthy. Maybe we should revise it to “Way better than 06″ or something of that nature.
After sharing the vision statement that Emilee, Gina, and I had written with my fellow freshman students – 2010 coming together and making a difference – I felt that this “motto” had been appropriate. Although that some of thier reactions were of blank looks on their faces, I still received many replies saying that this vision would really make a difference to the high school community. However, others advised for a revision of this statement. Maybe we should look into a more catchy one.
WOW! You guys have articulated just what all leaders feel when they are passionate about something and no one else is really paying attention. It seems like there are a couple of things we need to work on over the course of the year. First, all students should know what elected leaders they have representing them. How do we communicate with everyone about site-based council and the reps to the school board? I sympathize with Juliet who’s not entirely sure about her role, so has a hard time describing it to someone else. I have a “defnition,” but I’m not sure it reflects reality. Here’s what the policy says…”The Board thinks that [student] participation enables students to influence conditions that affect their lives, affords students increased opportunities for understanding the process of education and learning to work through the democratic process, and provides Board members, teachers, and administrators with additional information and insight…Student representatives serve in a consultative and advisory capacity without any voting rights, and not as official members of the Board of Education…” What do the reps think… Is this a good definition?
So, our first attempt at communication with your constituents confirmed the need for more communication. You guys did an awesome job putting yourselves out there. Even if you didn’t feel 100% effective this time, it’s a process. We’ll keep getting better and that’s how it goes.
I think that the board members should be given a copy of that definition.