Becky Pearson becky.pearson@dpi.nc

Becky Pearson becky.pearson@dpi.nc.govJoyce Gardner Joyce.gardner@dpi.nc.gov

Region 8 (Western North Carolina) Professional Development Consultants

SMART Goals:Data, Results and 21st Century Expectations

Goal SettingMaking Your Vision Your Reality!

Through the eyes of a child...

Activity

★Consider the following scenarios.★Choose the scenario that entices

you to write a goal.★Move to the corner of the room that

is labeled with the scenario that you have chosen.

You’ve Just Won the Lottery!

Scenario 1

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, No...It’s YOU!!

Scenario 2

It’s Your Retirement Party, Already??

Scenario 3

Long Lost Friend Reunion

Scenario 4

Group Goal Writing Activity

★With your group, design a goal related to the scenario that you have chosen.

★Include the steps that you will need to take to meet your goal. What will your team have to do to meet that goal?

★Write your finished goal and steps on the chart paper provided.

HAVE FUN!

What can you do in 30 days?

SMART Goals: What are they?

Why are they important?

SMART

Specific and Strategic

Measurable

Achievable

Results-oriented

Time-bound

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” asked Alice.

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.

“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.

¡Lewis Carroll From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (2002, p. 53)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland

“SMART goals are gap-closing goals: We use them to attain a result that is different from what currently exists. The successive movement toward a SMART goal brings us closer and closer to our desired end state-our vision. Inherent in this definition is the need for change. As Einstein so clearly put it, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results."Anne Conzemius;Jan O'Neill. The Power of SMART Goals: Using Goals to Improve Student Learning (Kindle Locations 542-544). Kindle Edition.

Anne Conzemius;Jan O'Neill. The Power of SMART Goals: Using Goals to Improve Student Learning (Kindle Locations 542-544). Kindle Edition.

As Einstein so clearly put it, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results."

SMART Research

“Feelings of success in the workplace occur to the extent that people see that they are able to grow and meet job challenges by pursuing and attaining goals that are important and meaningful.”Locke, E. A., & Latham, G. P. (2006). New Directions in Goal Setting Theory. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15(5), 265-268.

Why SMART Goals?

Locke, E. A., & Latham, G. P. (2006). New Directions in Goal Setting Theory. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15(5), 265-268.

BENEFITS

SMART GoalsFocus on results-oriented goals rather than process-

oriented goals.

Specific and Strategic

Goals are clearly stated, long-term and aligned with data.

Measurable

Results can be determined with quantitative or qualitative measures.

Achievable

The result can be reached, even if it is a stretch goal.The goal is worthy of an educator’s commitment of time and effort.

Results-oriented

Goals are data driven. Benchmarks are established for monitoring progress through the year.High expectations are set for teacher and student growth.

Time Bound● Benchmark and

completion dates set a sense of urgency and establish momentum.

● Each person involved is accountable for working towards the goal.

SMART Goals

Focus on results-oriented goals rather than process-oriented goals.

This is one of the most challenging components of a SMART Goal to write.

Assessing SMART Goals: Results vs. Process

“Results goals focus on the desired result itself, not the ‘process’ or the means they assume necessary to achieve that result.”

Peter Senge, 1990. The Fifth Discipline.

Process vs. Results Means vs. Ends

•Reduce failure rate in math for all 6th grade students.

•Increase the number of students who are reading at benchmark by the end of 1st grade.

•Eliminate violent behavioral incidences.

•Implement an integrated math /science curriculum for PK-2.

•Develop a balanced literacy program for primary students.

•Adopt the letter people program for all PK classrooms.

Process or Results?1. Sixteen percent of the 2013-2014 graduating

cohort of Working Hard County Schools will achieve college and career ready status on the ACT four core areas before graduation.

2. All teachers will participate in PLCs.3. Ninth graders will increase proficiency from 78%

to 88% with English I in 2012-2013 as indicated on SRI Lexile data, formative assessment data, and summative assessment data by May 1, 2013.

4. Develop walkthrough instrument to measure use of problem based learning.

Can you make this goal SMART?

By the end of first semester, student office referrals will

decrease.

What needs to be changed to make this a SMART Goal?

Make it SMART

By the end of first semester, student office referrals will decrease.

To: Do What? so that Who/What? will increase/decrease by completion date as measured by what data?

Your Data, Your SMART Goals

Let’s Practice!

Make it SMART

To: Do What? so that Who/What?

will increase/decrease by completion date

as measured by what data?

Practice

• Write a goal to target a need indicated from your student achievement results related to your practice.

• Target an area of greatest need revealed during analysis of data.

• Use the SMART Goal Worksheet to refine your goal.

SMART Goals Worksheet

Assess your SMART Goal.

Download and use this assessment to see if your goal is SMART.

Congratulations on developing your SMART Goal!

Post your SMART Goal worksheet.Stroll around the room and provide feedback

and comments with stickies.

Now, what about apersonal 30–day goal?

Take a few minutes to apply the components of SMART and write a goal you want to achieve in 30 days.Self-address the envelope.Write a note to yourself with your goal on the card.We will mail these to you in 30 days.

SMART Goals are . . . .

Specific and StrategicMeasurableAchievableResults-orientedTime-bound

Thank you!

Becky Pearson becky.pearson@dpi.nc.govJoyce Gardner Joyce.gardner@dpi.nc.gov

Region 8 Professional Development Consultants

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