Stories Bring Values to Life
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We all have identity elements that are often stuck on a wall. In this video, a superintendent explains how his team uses stories to bring the organization's identity elements to life.
Reflection Activity
- What core elements or values define your organization?
- What stories do you share to illustrate those values in action?
- How can you collect more of these stories?
Video Transcript
so when we identified our identity
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elements we did that through different
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stakeholders community members business
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partners students staff and also leaders
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and in our district what we felt like we
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needed to do in addition to bringing a
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cohort of folks together to really
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identify the elements was to really
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define them and define them in a
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different way we’ve all been a part of
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an organization that has identity
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elements or core values or beliefs that
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are stuck on a wall but often employees
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and students they don’t remember and
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can’t really identify what are those
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values and nor can they really come up
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with an example of that value and so
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what we tried to do was to tie stories
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that are already happening in our
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district to those identity elements to
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really illustrate this is how we want to
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treat our work and this is how we want
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to create the best place to learn for
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students
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actually the one that stands out the
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most is our Evans students Evans is a
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title one school full title one
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significant free and reduced lunch
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population and what they did was they
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they actually did a fundraiser for
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victims of Hurricane Harvey and these
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are students that really they come from
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nothing as well but they took it upon
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themselves to display that heart and
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that pride also in helping others and
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did a fundraiser for hurricane Harvey
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victims it was really cool
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