Vision
The Wyoming P-16 Education Council engages in all activities with the vision that:
Every graduate of Wyoming’s P-12 school systems will be prepared for successful entry into postsecondary study or the workplace.
The state’s P-16 education sectors will work to continuously meet the lifelong educational needs of Wyoming citizens.
Mission
The mission of The Wyoming P-16 Education Council is to:
Guide the development of a seamless statewide system of public education in which all levels of education coordinate, communicate, and educate as one system./li>
Serve as a change agent to propose and promote policy that leads to improvement across the P-16 educational system.
Core Values
A Shared Vision: Wyoming's vision for P-16 education must be developed and supported through a collaborative effort of the state's education, business, and policy leaders; it must be understood and endorsed by the public.
A Shared Plan: The plan for reaching the state's vision for P-16 education through coordinated change in policies and programs at every level of the system must have clear proximate benchmarks that can be used both for establishing Council effectiveness and for sustaining members' commitment to Council work. Roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders must be stated clearly.
Policy Coherence: The entire package of P-16 education policies at the state, district, and school levels must focus on standards-based improvement of student achievement.
Program Coherence: Programs for students, teachers, or teacher educators intended to improve Wyoming's P-16 system education - whether offered by the state's department of education, school districts, institutions of higher education, businesses, or foundations - must be aligned with the state vision and with each other to avoid conflict of purpose or redundancy.
P-16 Resource Alignment: Collaboration in the use of federal, state, district, and private funds must take place to ensure that the P-16 education programs they support are complementary and are consistent with the shared vision for improvement of education.
Program Coordination: A system-wide plan must be developed for the coordinated implementation of five related components of P-12 education: student standards; curricula; student assessments; teacher quality; and system accountability. Moreover, the exit expectations of P-12 education must be aligned with the entry-level expectations of higher education and the workplace.
Evaluation and Refinement: The Council must collect data designed to assess how well its plan for improving education is working at all levels of the P-16 system. The plan itself must include a procedure for continuous refinement based upon what is learned from evaluation of its effectiveness.
Public Communication and Engagement: The Council must develop procedures for reporting periodically to each of several audiences — including state educators, business leaders, policymakers, parents, and the general public — its progress in implementing its plan to improve Wyoming’s P-16 system of education.