**Grades K-5**This resource can help you track your English Learners language proficiency throughout the school year. Use your students' WIDA ACCESS score reports to identify their proficiency level in each domain. With this resource, you can quickly identify what students should be able to do in ea...

Prepare for community based instruction or CBI's using a goal setting worksheet that gives students choice over what they want to work on while on the field trip.

This ABA Behavior Analyst Case Management System consists of session planning and data analysis tracking templates. It was created by a behavior analyst for behavior analysts who manage their own caseloads. This template is intended for digital planning or physical making system through printing out the templates and organizing them as you wish in a binder. The Caregiver and Collaboration Planning template consists of Main goals, Areas of Focus, tasks, implementation plans and skills training. As well as a section during the month to note observations and feedback to be used in preparation for next month in order to set up your cases for success. Currently available templates beneficial to use in your Case Management system include: - Monthly Case Planning and Task Tracker - Direct Instructions and Planning - Supervision Planning and Preparation - Caregiver and Collaboration Planning - Target Behavior Data Analysis Tracker and Notes - Short Term Objective and Goal Data Analysis Tracker and Notes - Caregiver and Collaboration Data Analysis Tracker and Notes

A simple, standards-based solution for successful data tracking! Classroom Data Tracking for grade 2 provides a time-saving way to track student progress toward mastery of essential math and language arts skills. This customizable, interactive resource offers an easy way to set academic goals and accurately assess student growth. Classroom Data Tracking for grade 2 is a 160-page customizable resource that will transform how you track data and set goals in your classroom. The book features tracking sheets that cover skills such as word problems, place value, prefixes, suffixes, narrative writing, reading logs, and more. Take charge of data tracking with a product that simplifies the process. The Classroom Data Tracking series for kindergarten to grade 5 provides the tools to successfully assess and track academic growth. These books feature reproducible pages that focus on standards-based ELA and math concepts to help you: monitor student progress easily identify remediation needs support students as they take ownership over their learning Each title includes crosswalks for every anchor and an example for every reproducible. With the help of this series, you’ll save time while your students master important skills. Features: Reproducible Rights

This 7-week middle school self-management and responsibility counseling group is designed to help students use organization tools to set and reach SMART goals. In addition students will practice self-control, develop coping skills, and learn the importance of personal hygiene. This curriculum includes everything you need to run a successful school counseling small group including self-assessments to make data tracking easy. The included weekly outlines are aligned with CASEL Standards and ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors. Students will learn what it means to responsibly self-manage several aspects of their lives as they plan for their future. Middle School Self-Management and Responsibility Group Outline: Week 1: Develop time management skills Week 2: Set academic and social SMART goals Week 3: Practice perseverance Week 4: Practice self-control Week 5: Understand the importance of personal hygiene Week 6: Practice coping skills Week 7: Identify social and emotional barriers Lessons/Activities Included: Scattegories BINGO Scavenger Hunt Challenges Jenga discussion Discussion cards Discussion dice Hands on experiment Card Game Charades Beach Ball Toss Board Game Here is what's included each week: Outlines: Easy to implement outlines with ASCA and CASEL-aligned objectives Group Rules: Suggested and DIY Group Rules poster so students can take ownership of the creation of the group rules and norms. Feelings Check: Feelings Check Poster to serve as a visual aid for students to self-reflect on their emotional state at the start of each session. Self-Assessments: Pre and post-group self-assessments to track student growth and make data collection easy! Engaging games and activities: I include everything you need to run each session. Simply print each week before the students arrive and you are ready to go. Self Reflection Journal: Weekly journal reflections with writing prompts. Benefiting Students: Each week students will develop skills to set goals build responsibility through self-management. At a minimum, being in the counseling group allows students to identify and share their feelings, develop important social skills through participation, and practice empathy while hearing others’ experiences. Saving Time: With easy-to-implement outlines and activities, this group curriculum is very low-prep. Simply print out each session before students arrive and keep them in a file folder. The included self-assessments are a great way to get students to self-reflect on their progress and you can then share this information with teachers, and parents, or in your program report. Who is this Group Designed For? This self-management and responsibility small group is designed for middle school students in grades 6-8 but it can be modified to work with students across different grade levels. Visit Bright Futures School Counseling Blog and subscribe to my email list to gain access to my Smalll Group Cheat Sheet. You will also receive a weekly email with my latest school counseling tips, research, and freebies! Follow me on social media to be the first to learn about sales and new resources! School Counseling Simplified Podcast Bright Futures Counseling INSTAGRAM Bright Futures Counseling FACEBOOK

Keep up with your student's fluency data by tracking their accuracy, pace, expression and comprehension. Included are editable data tracking graphs for each skill. Students can also self reflect on their reading with self check sheets and a weekly data page they can keep in their folders. This page ...

IEP goals and objectives with data collection for behavior management, life skills, self-regulation, and self-monitoring. Has everything you need for your special education, ABA, or preschool students.

Learn how to use data notebooks in the classroom, set up student-teach conferences, and goal set with your elementary students.

Written by Tammy J. Frazer (MA, BCBA), this two-volume set provides a step-by-step teaching plan for each of the task codes identified within Dr. James Partington’s Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills, Revised (ABLLS-R®). This ABLLS-R® Skill Acquisition Program Manual Set provides practitioners, teachers, and interventionists with a framework for the assessment, teaching, and tracking of skills of individuals with autism or other developmental disorders.   "Children with autism or other developmental delays deserve to have the best possible instruction to help them reach their fullest potential. In order to meet that goal, it is necessary for learners to develop many critical skills. The ABLLS-R® Skill Acquisition Program Manual is a wonderful tool that provides specific steps and suggestions that will greatly assist parents, teachers and instructors implement effective, evidence-based teaching strategies to help learners develop those important skills."   - James W. Partington, Ph.D., BCBA-D     Author of the ABLLS-R®   Tammy J. Frazer is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with over 18 years of experience working with individuals with autism and developmental disorders. She earned a masters of arts in psychology with a specialization in Applied Behavior Analysis from the University of Nevada, Reno and has been a BCBA since 2007. Tammy is the Founder and Director of On Solid Ground Inc. in Barrie, Ontario.  Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 2.5 x 10.9 inches ISBN: 9780990708384 BULK DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE! If you purchase 10-19 of this title, simply apply the code DRTL10 at checkout and receive 10% off your order! If you purchase 20-29 of this title, simply apply the code DRTL20 at checkout and receive 20% off your order! If you purchase 30 of this title, simply apply the code DRTL30 at checkout and receive 30% off your order​!

MAP Goal Setting Worksheets You'll receive: - MAP Goal Setting Sheets in TWO Formats Format #1 - 2 Subjects Per Page - Math/Reading and Science/Language Format #2 - 1 Subject Per Page - Math, Reading, Science and Language Suggestions for Use: • Student goal setting and data tracking. A quick and simple way to involve students in the data analysis process and teach goal setting. Terms of Use: Purchase of this product is for single classroom use by the purchaser only. It is a violation for anyone to redistribute this item on the Internet or to other individuals.

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Want to set goals with your students but don't know where to start? These goal-setting templates, worksheets, and data-tracking graphs make it easy for 1st - 5th grade students. Includes goal planning sheets with and without sentence stems so you can easily differentiate for your students. The EDITABLE tracking graphs let them watch their progress as they work towards literacy goals like reading, writing, and Accelerated Reader; or hone their math skills. Making goal setting fun and rewarding is essential too! With certificates of achievement included to mark progress, goal setting has never been easier. Improve student learning outcomes with these goal-setting tools today! ✨CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW FOR A CLOSER LOOK! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT’S INCLUDED in this goal-setting template resource: ◼️ Student Bubble Maps: To prepare for goal setting, students can brainstorm descriptors of the type of student they want to be. Keep in their goal-setting notebook to remind them of their vision. ◼️ Goal Planning Templates with Sentence Stems: Reading, Writing, Math, AR, and Math Facts worksheets are perfect for beginning goal setters. These worksheets give students the essential steps to setting SMART goals. ◼️ Goal Planning Templates without Sentence Stems: Reading, Writing, Math, AR, and Math Facts worksheets for students who don’t need extra assistance writing SMART goals. ◼️ Data Tracking Bar Graphs: Reading, Writing, Math, AR Reading Points, and Math Facts bar graphs for tracking progress in both 4-week and 9-week increments. ◼️ Editable Data Tracking Bar Graphs: Now includes editable bar graphs for student differentiation. ◼️ Goal Achievement Certificates: Fun and cute goal certificates for Reading, Writing, Math, AR Reading Points, and Math Facts goal achievement. Help your students celebrate their success and promote a growth mindset! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY YOU NEED TO SET GOALS WITH YOUR STUDENTS: ✔ Encourages and rewards students for their hard work ✔ Makes goal setting and progress monitoring fun and easy ✔ Creates a positive classroom environment ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ◻️HOW TO USE THIS RESOURCE WITH YOUR GOAL-SETTING LESSONS: Use this resource alongside lessons promoting a learner growth mindset. As you teach your students how to grow their brains, show them how to set goals in specific subject areas. Students can use the goal planning worksheets that include sentence stems when they begin setting goals. This helps them understand each part of the SMART goal steps. Later, they will be able to write their own goals without help. Keeping SMART goals and progress monitoring bar graphs in student notebooks will help them stay organized and current with their data. I love celebrating when students reach goals, no matter how big or small, with certificates. They love to take them home and show their parents their successes! ◻️SCAFFOLDING AND DIFFERENTIATION: This goal-setting resource makes it easy to scaffold and differentiate with any group of students. With open-ended goal possibilities, students can work within their area and level of need. The worksheets have sentence starters for students who need extra help writing goals. The 4-week and 9-week graphs make progress monitoring flexible for each learner’s needs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ♥ CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW MY STORE FOR New Products, Updates, and Great Deals! ♥ "Don't forget to leave feedback -you will receive TPT credits that you can use toward future purchases! Thank you for visiting Teaching in the Heart of Florida!

Discrete Trial Training is a method of simplified and structured instruction that helps children learn various skills and concepts by breaking each concept down into smaller steps. It is frequently used in special education classrooms. This product is designed to be used in a 1:1 setting with your students. This product is specifically designed to target various basic skill areas. Data collection sheets + a notes section is included for each topic. A blank data collection sheet is also included. This set is perfect to help target and track IEP goals and basic skill goals. You will get 16 different sets of activities with your purchase: 1. Animals 2. Body Parts 3. Clothing 4. Community Helpers 5. Emotions 6. Favorite Things 7. Food 8. Household Items 9. Land forms 10. How much? 11. Prepositions 12. Safety Signs 13. Things that go 14. Verbs 15. Weather 16. Which one doesn't belong? Don't forget to check out BUNDLE 1 *This is a digital file only. You will have to print and prep.

To master any skill, one must focus on deliberate and consistent practice, seek feedback and guidance from experts, break down complex tasks into smaller achievable goals, and develop a growth mindset to persist through challenges.

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The Salad Shoppe curriculum was developed by dedicated special educators who aspire to change the face of vocational training. Working with a group of 8 young adults with varying abilities, these teachers were charged with teaching academics and supporting their transition into adulthood. After careful assessment of each learner's skill sets and needs, these educators created a social enterprise that combined “salad prep/business” skills to their learner's IEP goals, creating the Salad Shoppe Curriculum. This curriculum has changed the landscape of job training by highlighting the strengths and interests of each learner and applying them to functional tasks. The Salad Shoppe curriculum is a tool to take traditional teaching methods out of the classroom and integrate them into a comprehensive and functional setting. This curriculum contains set up instructions (including a list of all items needs), a schedule of tasks, 30 different skill targets, prompts, data tracking forms and sight word and vocabulary banks. The forms can be printed, or filled out directly in the downloadable PDF, which is available immediately on your computer or device. Students will learn how to: track and count money inventory ingredients create a shopping list purchase goods put items away food prep convert an order form to food assembly deliver orders clean up. Developed by  Kathryn Reres & Rebecca Chi, with illustrations by Brian Mannion, in partnership with NSSA and Different Roads to Learning

This solution focused counseling curriculum is designed to be used with students in a tier III individual setting. Through engaging activities, crafts, and games, students will learn the strategies they need to tackle problems and identify solutions using a solution focused counseling lens. Each session includes an outline that is set to ASCA Mindsets and Behavior Standards. "As the name suggests, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is future-focused, goal-directed, and focuses on solutions, rather than on the problems that brought clients to seek therapy." - Institute for Solution Focused Therapy As the school counselor, you will have all of the tools you need to assess and measure your students' progress. What's Included: 5 Individual Counseling Activities Student Journal Feelings Check Posters Guide on Best Practices and Recommendations for Individual Counseling Sessions Counselor's Implementation Guide with Supplemental Learning Data Tracking Tools Activities Include: Goal Setting Interactive Worksheets Miracle Question Drawing Craft Board Game Dice Game Data Tools Include: Self-Assessments (digital Google Forms version included!) Student Rating Scales Behavior Progress Monitoring Forms (digital Google Forms version included!) Visit Bright Futures School Counseling Blog and subscribe to my email list to gain access to my Individual Counseling Cheat Sheet. You will also receive a weekly email with my latest school counseling tips, research, and freebies! Follow me on social media to be the first to learn about sales and new resources! School Counseling Simplified Podcast Bright Futures Counseling INSTAGRAM Bright Futures Counseling FACEBOOK

Let's make IXL more impactful in your classroom by better utilizing all that it has to give to you and your students! This resource is all about having students be accountable for their learning and giving them the opportunity for individual practice. Included are 3 versions of IXL data tracking she...

I can’t believe the school season is almost here already, and has probably already started for some of you! To celebrate new classes, students, and goals I thought I’d share my “Articulation Goal Tracker” form with all of you.

Take goal setting and data analysis to the next level with our user-friendly fitness portfolio. This simple yet powerful tool allows students to track their progress formally through pre, mid, and post-testing, as well as informally through a practice test log. By utilizing criterion-referenced fitness data analysis, students can easily gauge their progress toward achieving the healthy fitness zone. Organize the portfolio effortlessly in a student binder, teacher binder, or digitally, ensuring easy access and seamless management of fitness data. This versatile approach accommodates various learning styles and preferences, making it a perfect fit for every student. Not only will this portfolio encourage students to take ownership of their fitness journey, but it also fosters a growth mindset and motivation to improve. By setting clear goals and monitoring their progress, students will build a strong foundation for lifelong health and fitness. As an educator, you'll benefit from the insightful data collected through this portfolio, allowing you to tailor your instruction and support individual student needs effectively. Prepare your middle school PE students for success by introducing them to this invaluable fitness portfolio. Transform your physical education classes into dynamic and goal-driven experiences, creating a positive impact that lasts far beyond the school year. Unlock the potential of your students and revolutionize your PE curriculum with this powerful fitness portfolio - the key to making goal setting and data analysis a breeze! Have questions? Reach out to me at [email protected]. I'm here to support you every step of the way! And don't forget to... Rate this product and share your feedback Follow my TpT Store for more lessons, projects, ideas, and updates Connect with me on Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest to stay updated on new resources and inspiration You may also like: Check out my FREE Middle School PE Curriculum Map to see how this resource fits into a yearly plan! For a fantastic start to your school year, explore my Back to School Bundle! Are you a new PE teacher? Download my Starter Kit, which includes all the essentials you need to kick-start your teaching journey!

The Salad Shoppe curriculum was developed by dedicated special educators who aspire to change the face of vocational training. Working with a group of 8 young adults with varying abilities, these teachers were charged with teaching academics and supporting their transition into adulthood. After careful assessment of each learner's skill sets and needs, these educators created a social enterprise that combined “salad prep/business” skills to their learner's IEP goals, creating the Salad Shoppe Curriculum. This curriculum has changed the landscape of job training by highlighting the strengths and interests of each learner and applying them to functional tasks. The Salad Shoppe curriculum is a tool to take traditional teaching methods out of the classroom and integrate them into a comprehensive and functional setting. This curriculum contains set up instructions (including a list of all items needs), a schedule of tasks, 30 different skill targets, prompts, data tracking forms and sight word and vocabulary banks. The forms can be printed, or filled out directly in the downloadable PDF, which is available immediately on your computer or device. Students will learn how to: track and count money inventory ingredients create a shopping list purchase goods put items away food prep convert an order form to food assembly deliver orders clean up. Developed by  Kathryn Reres & Rebecca Chi, with illustrations by Brian Mannion, in partnership with NSSA and Different Roads to Learning

These are quarterly posters for Reading, Writing, Spelling, Math, Sight Words, and Saxon Phonics Goals. They are used along with data binders for student goal setting and progress tracking.

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PDSA = Plan, Do, Study, Act Continuous Improvement Cycle Data Wall Individual Student Data Tracking This product can be used with any unit and with any subject. Continuous Improvement is a systematic process that allows teachers and students to gather and analyze data, create lessons, and establish strategies to improve student learning ourselves. This unit contains everything you need to post a PDSA cycle in your classroom. Students and teachers will easily be able to track, analyze, and set goals during individual units. During the Planning Stage: Teachers and students will set goals, establish a learning plan, and establish I Can Statements. During the Do Stage: Teachers and students will determine learning strategies that will help them learn. During the Study Stage: Students and teachers will record and analyze results within the learning process. During the Act Stage: Students and teachers will reflect on the learning process and determine future learning strategies. This product can be used with any unit and for any subject. This unit contains: * Directions * Worksheets to create a classroom mission statement. * Blank worksheets * Landscape and portrait orientation documents. * Individual Student Data Tracking Worksheet * Cover pages for every aspect of the PDSA cycle. * Worksheets for every aspect of the PDSA cycle. * Editable graphs Thank you for supporting your fellow teachers! Created by Casey Lepke

Looking for a way to have your students set goals and keep track of their NWEA scores...look no further! This is a great printable you can use in a Leadership/Data Notebook. Students can write down a goal for each test (Fall, Winter, and Spring) and then graph their results once the test is complete...

Help students set meaningful SMART goals by creating a data portfolio. Includes goal setting forms, reflection pages and much, much more.

I've had such a love-hate relationship with data notebooks over the years. I've always worked in "Baldrige" schools that have required every teacher to have a data wall and every student to have a data notebook. My first few years in the classroom, this would be something that I spent my first week of school

If you are living in a constant battle between tracking data and planning instruction...you know you’re not alone. Like most teachers, you are probably looking for ways to minimize the time you spend grading, and recording data so you can maximize your time planning and prepping. You’re in the right place.

I want to post a lot more about this during the school year, but I wanted students to have something to place in their Data Folder (click here for the Data Folder sheets) about how to set SMART Goals.

The Salad Shoppe curriculum was developed by dedicated special educators who aspire to change the face of vocational training. Working with a group of 8 young adults with varying abilities, these teachers were charged with teaching academics and supporting their transition into adulthood. After careful assessment of each learner's skill sets and needs, these educators created a social enterprise that combined “salad prep/business” skills to their learner's IEP goals, creating the Salad Shoppe Curriculum. This curriculum has changed the landscape of job training by highlighting the strengths and interests of each learner and applying them to functional tasks. The Salad Shoppe curriculum is a tool to take traditional teaching methods out of the classroom and integrate them into a comprehensive and functional setting. This curriculum contains set up instructions (including a list of all items needs), a schedule of tasks, 30 different skill targets, prompts, data tracking forms and sight word and vocabulary banks. The forms can be printed, or filled out directly in the downloadable PDF, which is available immediately on your computer or device. Students will learn how to: track and count money inventory ingredients create a shopping list purchase goods put items away food prep convert an order form to food assembly deliver orders clean up. Developed by  Kathryn Reres & Rebecca Chi, with illustrations by Brian Mannion, in partnership with NSSA and Different Roads to Learning

Try these 1st grade assessments and data tracking folders to track of how your students are doing in reading and math and be ready for report card time.

Help students set meaningful SMART goals by creating a data portfolio. Includes goal setting forms, reflection pages and much, much more.

Hi Friends! As teachers we have to collect lots of data on our students throughout the year. This data drives our instruction. I work...

As teachers, we used data all of the time. We use data to plan our lessons, to form our groups and to evaluate our students. This is the first year, I've given my students the responsibility of making choices in our math workshop based on their data. I found this picture on Pinterest and decided to do the same thing. Link to My Teacher Friend's Blog Post about Math Benchmark Data {Taking a very deep breath.} Here is our data from after the first benchmark math test, given some time in December. No judging. The chart isn't about judging. The chart is about staying focused on our goals and working together to achieve them. I'm sure some of you have immediate reactions to this information being so SO public. I was a bit worried about that also. I was worried that some of my students would feel horrible seeing their names under "I need help do to this." But that wasn't the case. When I showed them the chart, (whose name is stolen from The Book Whisperer), I explained what each part meant and how they should use it. Instead of being depressed or paralyzed, I found the students to be VERY motivated to more out of the "help" category and toward the "expert" category. Looking back at My Teacher Friend's post, I am using the same percentages as she is, but rather than writing 0-59% I wrote "I need help to do this." For 60-84%, the students are under "I can do this most of the time." And for 85% and above, the students are "experts." Along the left side, I used I can statements written from the Common Core Standards. For this benchmark, the students were expected to add and subtract decimals to the hundredths, multiply whole numbers using the traditional algorithm and divide whole numbers using the traditional algorithm. One quick glance at this chart can tell you exactly what I wanted to review first. And the students were able to use this data also when I made these: I love binders for center activities. In our school, we use the EnVisions Math Program. I decided to abandon their games and instead have the kids chose their own task cards based on their data. They can also use the task cards in our small group tutoring program or if they finish work early. Each one of the "I Can" statements has a set of task cards for the kids. The sets are fairly small, just 6 cards with the answer cards in the baggie, so the students can self check their work. They look at the data chart, find their name in one of the categories and they self select the task cards. They can also use the chart during our workshop to locate an expert to help them if I'm busy with a small group. Once they finish the task cards (for one standard) and check their work, they can request an assessment. Oh yes. They REQUEST assessments. I bought Miss Nannini's Standards Based Common Core Assessments for Fifth Grade to use after the students complete their task cards. They complete the assessments and I mark them right away. If they score into the next level on the chart, they get to move their sticky notes. They love it. Here you can see how many sticky notes have moved from the "I need help" category to the "I can do this" and even all the way to expert! I have several students who have really put a tremendous effort into moving all of their sticky notes into "expert." Those little pink stickies really stand out when they make it to expert! THIS is what the data chart is about. It's about celebrating student achievement, no matter where our students begin. I don't want to pretend I have this all figured out, because I don't. I've found one way to help my kids focus their efforts in math workshop. One in which we ALL share the data and the responsibility. Tell me, is your data public?

Help students set meaningful SMART goals by creating a data portfolio. Includes goal setting forms, reflection pages and much, much more.

This pack includes goal setting and data tracking sheets for student notebooks or possibly a classroom wall display for the free online program Xtramath. There are 3 forms included. One page for goal setting, monitoring, and reflecting. One page to track progress in one of the programs. For exa...

Looking for a dibels tracking system and some activities for the skills assessed? This packet is for creating data folders and also parent letters to report scores to parents each time you give the benchmark! Also included is a tracking wall for kids that meet the benchmarks for beginning, middle, a...

This freebie contains two sheets I use to help my students create goals and track progress. Enjoy!

At the beginning of every school year, I like to take mass baselines for all of my students so that I have a good clean idea on where they are toward meeting the goals set for them on their IEPs. Maybe they had a summer miracle or maybe they’ve regressed a little. Today I’m going […]

Every Friday, we are setting aside time to reflect on our goals for the week and continue them or create new ones. This practice fits in beautifully with our Leader In Me program and helps to cultivate student responsibility, especially in the areas of homework and classroom behavior. If you haven't checked out my previous post on creating SMART Goals and our classroom board, be sure to read that HERE. Today, we began by jotting down some thoughts and reflections on our Weekly Goals Reflection Sheet: We went through an example goal together and worked on explaining why a goal was or was not accomplished this week. This provided some *fantastic* discussion about learning from "failures"-- and my kids really got the chance to understand that not achieving your weekly goal was more about a learning experience than just a perceived black mark on their week. We also looked back at the SMART Goal sheet from last week and many could see why they did not achieve their goal based on one or more parts of that acronym (mainly, Attainable). I had them attach their sticky note goal to the blank square and then judge themselves on their effort put forth to achieve this goal. This was to reinforce that even if you didn't hit the goal, the energy and effort you put into it matters. My kids were surprisingly honest with this and even those who did achieve their goal gave themselves straight or frown faces because they felt their goal wasn't challenging enough.... perfect feedback to consider when making next week's goals! The last section is all about "Next Steps" they will take with the upcoming week's goal. Will it be a continuation? Will it build on last week's goal or be something new altogether? Why? I wasn't too stirct with this last section since I wanted them to brainstorm some ideas for their new sticky note. The last thing I had them do was to find a Goals Partner. I let them choose the person they wanted to work with because I wanted it to be a friend that they felt comfortable sharing with as well as someone they actually wanted to check in with throughout the next week. They shared their reflection sheet from last week together and chatted about next steps for a few minutes. I had them jot down their partner because I plan on using this system frequently and build upon what a good Goals Partner does (and does not do, ha!) to help their friend reach their goal. I am fortunate to have a friend (and Goals Partner, I suppose!) who always encourages me to write WOW Goals, or Within One Week Goals. This was the perfect acronym for my students and fit in with our goals timeline, so today we adjusted the first sentence to read, "Within one week, I will... I'll know I've made this goal because..." and we hung this wording right below our SMART Goals chart. Although this is only Week 2 of our SMART Goals work, I am already seeing some improvement with their wording and especially the Attainable goals they are writing. I have seen quite a few kids stay on the same path, but others hop around, and many are creating goals for themselves that I would have never thought to include. I love how they've grasped the structure this provides and I'm hoping with the incorporation of Goals Partners, next week's reflections will be even stronger and their goals even more successful. If you're interested in the Weekly Class Goal Reflection, it's available as a freebie in my TpT Store HERE. Now, to think of my own WOW Goal for next week... Find more Goal-Setting Posts here:

Incorporating metacognitive thinking is a powerful way to engage students, build motivation, and teach self-efficacy.