Vision

The Center envisions a group of national stakeholders committed to and engaged in identifying,  promoting, and expanding the strengths and successes of public education in America – securing its fundamental role in creating a society of people who learn, work, and live well, together.

Mission

The Center is the hub of a national network that brings together educational stakeholders committed to a positive, strengths-based approach to the ongoing growth and development of our public education system for the betterment of their communities and the world.  

The Center aims to create a culture of possibility in public education. We implement this mission by actively supporting educational stakeholders in: 

• Sharing stories of success
• Inquiring into their positive core 
• Engaging in generative conversations for change
• Co-constructing a vision of their collective future
• Designing actionable pathways forward
• Holding themselves accountable for achieving the results they seek through self-designed internal accountability systems and metrics.
   

The Center Core Team works with public educators across the country to contribute to this culture of possibility through local, state, and national capacity building efforts for positive, strengths-based change and innovation.    
 

Goal

The goal of the Center is to help build a public educational system that is highly valued for its capacity to meet the diverse academic and social needs of learners in our country, positively strengthen its school communities, and enable all involved to contribute to self and world betterment.