What is Mission?

Mission is a web app for education that seeks to bring students and staff together, to give both a present and clearly-communicated voice with regard to rules at school. Why?

Transparent communication between staff and students:

• Increases students’ self-advocacy skills;
• Enables administration to make more conscious policy decisions; and
• Builds on the principles of design thinking, to iterate and improve the educational experience.

Mission-Driven

Pun intended. As students, we feel it’s an obligation to optimize the experience for ourselves, our peers, and educators + admins.

We’ve learned a lot from our initial research, but there are three takeaways we’re operating with:

1. Firstly, over half of students said there was no centralized place for school rules and policies that they knew of.
2. Secondly, like many other aspects of education, the model for self-advocacy remains unclear for many students post-pandemic. At one school, when faced with a suboptimal policy, a group of students resorted to protesting.
3. Finally, both students and teachers strongly agree something like Mission would be an incredibly beneficial tool for tackling the above two issues.

<aside> 🗣 What does this mean? Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if you have a policy written on a page if students and/or teachers:

• Don’t know how to access it;
• Can’t see its changes over time; and
• Aren’t treated as proper stakeholders in those decisions. </aside>

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If you are...

• A student in high school;
• A student council/senate member in high school;
• A student at university;
• A student council/senate member at university;