This document outlines SMART goals for incorporating technology to increase reading instruction. The goals are to: 1) Obtain an iPad or Chromebook for each student by writing a grant request. 2) Have teachers use the devices to hold 3 online discussions per unit that require silent responses on a classroom discussion board. 3) Have students research topics, inform and solve issues through blogs with links and videos, publishing online each semester. The goals aim to increase student engagement, critical thinking in reading, and critical thinking in writing through technology integration. Integrity in goal-setting and coaching is also discussed as benefiting students, teachers, and the future.

1. SMART Goals
Brittany Palmeri

2. SMART Goals
for Reading Instruction
As Reading Coaches, it is necessary for
teachers and schools to understand that
times have changed (Vogt & Shearer,
2011). Technology has become such a
crucial aspect to the posterity of the
United States, that if we do not teach to
the new standards and with updated
resources, our students will fall behind
the spectrum, loosing out on
opportunities they have a right to achieve.

3. Saint Leo Required Goals
I will incorporate technology to increase:
1. student engagement
2. critical thinking in reading
3. Critical thinking in writing

4. Goal #1
I will incorporate technology to increase student engagement, by writing a
request letter for the school to receive a grant, that will supply each student
with an assigned iPad (or ChromeBook) for the school year, by May 2017.

5. Goal #2
I will incorporate technology to increase critical
thinking in Reading, by having my teachers use the
iPad/ChromeBook to hold 3 or more online
discussions during their whole group and small
group readings, that will require the students to only
have (silent/non-verbal) discussion of their reading
on the classroom developed discussion board,
successfully by the end of each grading period.

6. Goal #3
I will incorporate technology to increase critical
thinking in Writing, by having my teachers
implement the use of the iPads/ChromeBooks,
by having their students develop their own topic
(within the unit topic) of concern, research it,
inform, question it, and solve the topic through a
blog the students publish online, with links and
videos to support their topic, successfully, by the
end of each semester/school year.

7. Core Value of Integrity
Integrity is defined as a persons purpose or reason for doing something. Goals
and Integrity go hand in hand when it comes to being an educator or
supporting those who educate. Teachers do everything, from creating lessons to
classroom goals, all with the hope of their students achieving the highest level
of excellence for their futures. As a Reading Coach, we do the same thing, with
hopes of our teachers being able to achieve the highest level of effective
instruction, to benefit not only the district and school scores, but to benefit the
future of the students as well.