Activity 3.3 | Composing a Commitment Statement

There is no formula for composing a commitment statement. 

The intention of a Commitment Statement is to make visible the frameworks, philosophies, personal standpoints, and dispositions included and excluded in your practices. Composing and making visible a Commitment Statement situates what an educator, leader, and centre’s community and culture is actively attempting to create the conditions towards.

*Exclusion: Knowing what you stand for and behind is important. However, knowing what you resist, refuse, and exclude in your dispositions and practices is equally important. For example, if you are committed to creating inclusive environments that honour diverse people, ways of knowing, being, and doing, then you are resisting, refusing, and excluding discriminatory and marginalizing philosophies, ideologies, dispositions, and practices.

A Commitment Statement allows leaders, educators, and the centre (children, families, and greater communities) to root themselves within particular obligations and responsibilities, to return to these concerns, reflect on their activation (the doing, creating conditions for), attention to be rethought, reconsidered, and responded to, as well as inspire lively momentum and collectivity. 

Commitments beg us to constantly (re)consider, How am I embodying what I say my practices are rooted in?