2. Project Team

3. Project Model & Structural Framework Planning Teams Steering Committee & MSBA/MASA BOD

4. Overarching goal: To create a world-class educational experience for all of Missouri’s students www.visionformopublicschools.org

5. Teaching, Learning and Assessment • Provide a rigorous core curriculum • Integrate technology at all grade levels and across all subjects • Differentiate teaching methods and instructional time for every public school student in Missouri according to his or her needs and abilities. • Attract the most talented individuals to the teaching field www.visionformopublicschools.org

6. Early Learning and Student Success • Provide every family in Missouri with access to a voluntary, free, quality preschool program • Form partnerships with families to strengthen support systems for children • Establish a coordinated early learning system that aligns the efforts of all preschool learning opportunities www.visionformopublicschools.org

7. Climate, Culture and Organizational Efficacy • Make every school building in Missouri an inviting and safe place for every student, parent, staff and the larger community • Create an overall culture of high expectations through effective leadership • Encourage innovative programs and enable districts to share knowledge and best practices www.visionformopublicschools.org

8. Human and Organizational Capital • Attract and retain high-quality teachers in every Missouri school district by providing excellent salaries and benefits • Implement performance-based evaluations for teachers, principals and superintendent • Provide staff with excellent professional development opportunities www.visionformopublicschools.org

9. Physical Resources • Provide state support for school construction and renovation that will enable every Missouri student to be educated in a quality learning environment • Establish standards to accommodate technology in school facilities • Develop a strategic alliance with communities on the use of school facilities www.visionformopublicschools.org

10. Governance, Leadership and Accountability • Ensure that local, state and federal education policy be focused on providing the best education for students, not on partisan ideology • Develop an accountability system to drive and inform instructional practice, administrative leadership and governance decisions • Create an environment that actively supports innovation www.visionformopublicschools.org

11. Financial Resources • Provide an adequate and equitable school finance system that will place Missouri in the top ten in rankings of state support for school funding. • Develop research-based definitions of measures of adequate and equitable school funding • Evaluate the effectiveness of economic development tools that have an impact on school funding www.visionformopublicschools.org