Connect Student Outcomes to Examples, Rituals, and Routines

Identify areas of strength already within your community that you can use your outcomes to highlight. For example, if one of your outcomes was Empathy, find examples of how students are being empathetic and share those examples with your school community. What ideas did you come up with?

Use outcomes regularly in morning announcements and/or assemblies, as aspirational statements to reinforce the promises your school makes to its community, etc. What are the ways you are using them regularly in these small ways?

Connect the outcomes to everyone in the school community (students, staff, families, business leaders, etc.) not just to the students. When the vision for readiness applies to everyone in the community, there is a higher probability they will be used every period, every day. How are you using the outcomes to highlight student, staff, and family stories aligned to the outcomes?

Create new rituals as needed to introduce outcomes. For example, at the elementary and secondary schools in Santiam Canyon in Oregon, they created t-shirts for all staff members. Each staff member received a t-shirt for each of their student outcomes statements – Stand Together, Find Your Path, and Never Give Up. Every Friday, staff wear the statement that best fits what they want to emphasize with students on that day. Did you create any new rituals and routines?

How did aligning your student outcomes to rituals and routines work on your campus? What communication vehicles were most effective?