Our Framework

Use the attached S.M.A.R.T. Schools Self-assessment with your colleagues to reflect on where your school stands.

i3 (Investing in Innovation) and S.M.A.R.T. School Improvement

We await the final rules and application for the i3 (Investing in Innovation Fund) grant program. According to the newsletter of the Office of Innovation and Improvement at the Department of Education, an "exciting new addition" to the fund will be announced on January 28th and the application may be available before then.

A Process for Implementing S.M.A.R.T. Goals

When Mike Schmoker's Results was published, we were impressed by his 33 Minute Meeting Agenda. We were looking for a way to extend S.M.A.R.T. Goals into a deeper learning process that would bring together instructional best practices with job-embedded staff development and collaborative inquiry. This is the results-driven school improvement process we've been teaching, coaching and refining ever since.

S.M.A.R.T. Goals

The "SMART" acronym was originally coined 30 years ago by Peter Drucker in his classic work, Management by Results. It has since been used everywhere from strategic planning to weight loss programs to self help resources. SMART is defined a little bit differently by each industry, but having used SMART for many years in the corporate sector, Anne and Jan defined it for educators as: S=Specific and Strategic, M=Measurable, A=Attainable, R=Results-based, T=Timebound.

Meet Jo Stanley Seidel - Featured Coach and Consultant

Certified S.M.A.R.T. Coach

As a consultant and leadership/team coach, Jo's areas of focus are group facilitation and training in literacy 2.0 and 21st century skills, development of balanced assessment systems, and instructional differentiation. She tailors her work with low-performing districts to their needs in K-12 content areas -- reading/ELL/struggling readers, formative assessment, research-based interventions for tiered models, math problem solving, and leadership for working with data teams. She also has successful experience as a grant/proposal writer. 

Syndicate content