Much can be said about why learning goals are important as they are useful as a prism through which we can view the totality of school improvement. This means that goals need to be rightly understood as they are urged to unify the most essential elements of a schools success.

1. Planning for
Quality Performance Assessment

2. Planning for Progress
“ Would you
tell me,
please, which
way I ought to
go from
here?”
Providing Direction
By Lewis Carroll

3. A Relationship Between
Work and Accomplishments
School Improvement
Goals
Goals Unify

4. The 5 R's
provide
consistency for
standards

5. Investing in Time
Expectations
for every
Teacher
Invest
Time
Student
Centered
Learning
1

6. three key areas
that drive our
professional
learning
communities
Academic
benchmarks are
end of unit subject
level assessments
Investing in Assessments2

7. • read it independently & formulate an answer
• generate a response to what one has read,
viewed or heard
• explain one's thinking in complete sentences
• use notes to write an open response
• describe an experience & report conclusions
• compare & contrast
• argue an idea and support one’s thinking
WRITING
SCIENCE
SOCIAL STUDIES
MATH
ENGLISH ELECTIVES
Writing
Reading
Speaking
Reasoning
Science
Social
Studies
Electives
Math
3 Investing in Instruction

8. • App selection that can
be progressive by
grades
• A common place to
store content
• A common set of
expectations for
student usage
4
Twenty-first Century
Future Workplace
Investing in Technology