New England Association of Schools and Colleges
Commission on Public Secondary Schools (CPSS)

Developing Your Mission

A Guide to Assist Schools in Developing and Implementing Mission and Expectations for Student Learning

The following guide should be especially useful to schools:

  • who are about to review and revise their mission and expectations for student learning prior to beginning the self-study process
  • who are just beginning to implement their faculty-developed school-wide rubrics
  • who are finding their expectations for student learning to be difficult to assess
  • who are finding it difficult to use faculty-developed school-wide rubrics or who are struggling to assess achievement by every student of the academic expectations in their missions using the school-wide rubrics
  • schools who are finding they need to collapse the number of academic expectations in order to have a more reasonable number of core learnings
  • schools who have a number of subject specific school-wide academic expectations in their mission

> Guide to Developing and Implementing the Mission