• What is your school’s mission statement? (Can you recite it from memory?)

• Is it the same as your congregation’s mission statement? Similar? Unrelated?

• What is your personal mission statement?

• Is your personal mission statement similar to your school’s statement? Unreleated?

• What implications come to mind from your answers to the four questions above?

• How can a mission statement be an asset of excellence in a Lutheran school?

• When and how does a mission statement need revision?

• How does your experience of teaching in a Lutheran school potentially influence the future?

• What do you know that can make your Lutheran school the absolute best school in the community?

• What can your story contribute to what the school has been and what it should be?

Professionally Speaking is the result of partnership among:

Lutheran Education Association

LCMS District & Congregational Services--School Ministry

LCMS District & Congregational Services--Children's Ministry