Topic of Choice-Creating a new mission statement

Next week we return to our classrooms. At Alton Central School we have a new principal who has assigned us all with the task of rewriting our Mission Statement. It is clear to me that the mission statement needs to reflect the changes in our world and what we teach, the importance of technology, and the importance of teaching our students to identify the sources of what they read on the internet and to be safe. I was reading a blog on my RSS Reader and came across this:
Dare to Dream
On her blog she says,
"If anything has and is changing radically in our world it is this sense of place and as we struggle with how it forms and informs our world I need to struggle with school as place and it begins with our goals. Schools must enable students to research, create, communicate and collaborate .... it should be a place of performance, invention resourcefulness, and networking . It should be a space that encourages us to negotiate and explore new places and that is what technology enables." This phrase just sums it up for me. I hope to be able to share this with our team of teachers as we struggle to rewrite our Mission Statement.