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SMART GOALS The First Step Toward Improvement
Dr. Anne Zeman, DirectorCurriculum and Professional Learning
September 22, 2011
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What’s a SMART Goal?A SMART goal is a goal that is:
SpecificMeasurableAttainableRelevant (Realistic)Time-bound
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Why Use SMART Goals?
The use of SMART goals greatly increases the
likelihood of improvement in the targeted area.
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SMART Goals:What’s the First Step?
Start with data:
Which data are imperative to consider?
Which data are illuminating, helpful?
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SMART Goals:What’s Your Focus?
Which numbers (data) would you like to see improved?
This is your focus area.
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SMART GoalsWhat’s Your Focus?
How much improvement in numbers (data) do you want to achieve:
Consider the current gap in performance.Can you close the gap entirely this year (or term/month/week), or is it more realistic to chunk the improvement?What’s the highest outcome that is rigorous yet realistic?
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SMART Goals
SpecificMeasurableAttainable (Achievable)Relevant Time-bound
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SMART GoalsSpecific
Which students, specifically?
What, specifically, will students do?
Under what specific conditions will students demonstrate success?
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SMART GoalsMeasurable
What will be the unit of measure?
What is the criterion for success?
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SMART GoalsAttainable
Rigorous, a stretch
But achievable
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SMART GoalsRelevant
Will achieving this SMART goal help us to achieve other, larger goals?
Does the SMART goal describe an improvement that is significant?
The goal is about students.
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SMART GoalsTime-Bound
Does the goal specify when or “by when?”
If an on-going improvement process, does the goal describe the frequency of measure?
Is the goal sufficiently aggressive in terms of timing?
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SMART Goals: Score this One!
Goal:By the end of term 2, 80% of students will achieve at least a “4” on our persuasive writing rubric after being blind-scored by a department team member.
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SMART Goals: Score this One!
Goal:
Now turn in your 2010-11 PTABG to a goal that your school created last year. Score your own! Was it “Smart?”
Please share your SMART goals at table groups.
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SMART Goals: Double-Check
After analyzing data and selecting your area of focus, consider:
Are the SMART goals you select high-leverage benchmarks that will help you
to achieve larger, overall goals?
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SMART Goals: Double-Check
After analyzing data and selecting your area of focus, consider:
Are the adult actions truly related to improvement in student performance?
E.g.: If we want to improve student writing, will adults commit to assigning, reading, and scoring student writing on a common
rubric?
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SMART Goals: Double-Check
After analyzing data and selecting your area of focus, consider: Is there research to support the notion that your actions are likely to lead to
goal-attainment?
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SMART Goals: Double-CheckResearch is widely known in some areas but consider delving into other areas:
Marzano’s (2001) Big NineRigor, Relevance, RelationshipsExpository WritingGrading PoliciesContent-Specific Pedagogy
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SMART Goals: Double-Check
The establishment of effective SMART goals requires objective analysis by a
team, not individual opinion or emotionalism.
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SMART Goals: Double-Check
Whole Group
Consensus
Individual Influence
Friendly
Autocracy
Emotionalism Objective/ Student Need
On a team, who decides the SMART Goal and Action?
Dysfunctional
Highly Functionin
g Team
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SMART Goals
SMART Goals.....Tools for Improvement