California Professional Standards for Education Leaders · Vision, equity, and continuous improvement
Embrace diverse perspectives and craft consensus about the vision and goals.
Treat vision as a living agreement: revisit its meaning, trace it into resource decisions, and listen for gaps between intention and experience.
Developing the practice
This standard highlights the importance of embracing diverse perspectives and collaboratively crafting a shared vision and goals within an educational community. Here's how this standard can be further expanded upon:
By embracing diverse perspectives and collaboratively crafting consensus about the vision and goals, educational communities can create a more inclusive, equitable, and effective learning environment that reflects the values and aspirations of all stakeholders.
An intellectual virtue for 1B1
Open-mindedness
Gives competing perspectives a fair hearing, especially when they challenge familiar routines or authority.
A focused learning shelf
The School Leaders Our Children Deserve
George Theoharis
Read selectively for concepts, protocols, and cautions that sharpen the work of 1B1.
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Compare approaches with a professional community and locate current guidance related to 1B1.
Questions for reflection and mentoring
- What would a strong example of this practice make easier for students and staff?
- Which voice could complicate—and improve—the current interpretation?
- How are context, history, and power affecting what the evidence seems to say?
- What learning should be documented so the next cycle begins from a stronger position?