Choosing to organize into grade-level and/or content-alike teams means that each team will choose a goal in their area that aligns with the building goal(s).
Examples:
Middle/High School Building
Reading Goal: To improve reading as measured by fluency and comprehension.
Content Area
Goals
Literature
Students will evidence reading comprehension in a variety of genres.
Language Arts
Students will increase reading fluency by 25%.
Industrial Tech
Students will evidence 90% reading comprehension of technical manuals.
Social Studies
All students score a minimum of 90% proficiency on vocabulary.
Use standards and benchmarks to help determine goals for content areas. Each content area should be linked to an academic building goal.
Elementary Building
Reading Goal: To improve reading as measured by ITBS (proficient and above) and Accelerated Reader (% of students at grade level).
Grade Level
Goals
Kindergarten
90% of students will know all capital and small case letters.
1st grade
90% of students are proficient or better on common words.
2nd grade
90% proficient or better on inference questions.
3rd grade
90% proficient or better on list of 200 vocabulary words.
Each grade level team has a goal that aligns with the building goal. A target of 90% has been used consistently for these grade levels—this target appropriately challenges this building based on past performance.
It is important for each team to select both process (also referred to as formative or progress data) and outcome data (also referred to as summative or result data) to assess goals.
