"Mission-Driven, Performance-Measured"

An integrated information system to support high-quality decision making, define and measure school success, and sustain mission-driven improvement.
ISIS Affiliates provides an integrated resource for schools and districts to define comprehensive blueprints for success:
Information Infrastructure Strategic Planning Resource (web-based)
"Mission-Driven, Performance-Measured" Information System
"Common Language of Performance Resource" (web-based)
Professional Development Consulting and Training
Imagine two schools...
Imagine two schools, School A and School B. Both of these schools, as depicted, can make an effort to answer the question, "Are you meeting your mission?" But which of these two schools can answer these questions:
"To what extent are you meeting your mission?"
"To what extent is your entire school community involved in achieving your mission?"
"Where are your areas of strength and weakness?"
"What does your own data tell you about how best to proceed to maximize your school's potential?"
School A
  • Has a mission statement that the staff briefly reviews at the start of each year.
  • Staff decision making is guided by personal interests and priorities.
  • No system exists for determining how the mission is integrated into daily activities or for measuring the extent to which the school is actually achieving its mission.
School B
  • Has a mission statement that everyone in the school community discuss regularly and in great detail.
  • The school uses the mission statement to align all decision making with institutional purpose.
  • The mission is divided into a comprehensive set of specific tasks and organized categories for effective management, measurement, and analysis.
  • An evaluation system is overlaid onto each task for community members to self-assess their performance.
  • A web-based technology resource tracks all information generated by the school's continuous efforts to achieve its mission.
  • The web resource enables all members of the community to identify and evaluate their own contributions to the mission.
  • The web resource allows the school to determine where efforts are succeeding and where extra support is required.
  • The web resource becomes a permanently growing repository of information about the school.
  • The web resource supports school efforts to integrate the mission into all aspects of daily activity.
  • The web resource provides a constant measure of the extent to which the school is achieving its mission.
To which of these two schools would you want to send your child?