Personalized Goals

Last week, during the kick-off of the Clash of Classes event, students were given a personalized goal to work toward during the next few months of the school year and during the end-of-year testing. This goal is based on setting a new personal best and is, therefore, tailored to how each student performed the last time they took a similar test. The upper-grade students are trying to beat their own score on the SAGE test from a year ago. The lower-grade students are trying to beat their middle-of-the-year DIBELS score.

What makes these goals so worthwhile is that they are all in the reach of the students’ ability. Students are not trying to reach any arbitrary line set by the creators of the tests. Instead, students are trying for personal improvement. This means students who are either well below the proficiency line or well above it, all have something realistic to shoot for. We ask that students and parents post this goal somewhere prominent (i.e. the fridge) for the next two months and talk about it often as all students prepare to “show off their stuff” at the end of the year.