Arrived into work this morning, again - fighting through a depressing lack of snow – to be handed a document during the staff meeting entitled: “A Mission Statement for Success.” Yawn.

And oh yes it was as bad as I expected. Our new ‘tag line’ is “Inspired Learners, Inspiring Teachers” – and of course that’s ILIT for short. We must work the ILIT concept into everything we do, a meeting at the end of January will ask for evidence and ideas on how we’ve brought ILIT into our teaching on a lesson-by-lesson basis. And that’s it. Class dismissed, with  no more guidance than a reassuring: “I know you’ll all come up with some inspired ideas,” from the head. Give me strength.

Still, I’ve been working hard on the project already, and so far have focused all my efforts on trying to find a way I can make the mission statement a bit longer, so it becomes ILLITERATE for short. How about:

“Inspired Lazy Learners, Inspiring Teachers, Endlessly Reaching Abominable Target Expectations” ?

Opinions on a postcard…

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