Learning Forward Presents More Than a SMART Goal E-Learning Program

In this five-week e-learning program, Anne Conzemius and Terry Morganti-Fisher, co-authors of More Than a SMART Goal: Staying Focused on Student Learning, demonstrate how to go beyond simple goal setting and use the SMART Goal Process to effect real change.

Build Internal Capacity for Change

The 2012-2013 calendar of S.M.A.R.T. Coach Academies includes opportunities in Wisconsin, Illinois and Texas!

authorspeak - The Voices of Solution Tree

Anne and Terry were 2 of the 99 Solution Tree authors who shared their ideas and insights at authorspeak 2011in Indianapolis during the first week of November.

Our newest book - from Solution Tree Press:

You don’t have to do everything to do the right things well. By engaging educators in collaborative professional learning improvement efforts, we can create the high-quality educational systems to which we all aspire. More Than a SMART Goal provides a rationale and methodology for keeping everyone in the system, including students, focused on the highest priorities (the right things) aimed at improving student learning outcomes.

The SMART Goals Learning Community on PD 360

We've added a video segment and resource document to the SMART materials on PD 360 on the topic of Levels of Fix. In the video, Anne describes three levels of intervention and provides a classroom example. The resource document adds the appropriate Analysis, Alignment, Improvement, and Action questions pertaining to each of the three Levels of Fix:

     Level I - fix the problem

QLD web event - S.M.A.R.T. Response to Intervention

Take a deep dive into response to intervention and become S.M.A.R.T.er in your approach. Discover a visual map that will establish shared language and responsibility for greater learning. 

Learning Forward's Standards for Professional Learning and The SMART Goals Process

At last we have a clear set of standards that put the definitive stamp of reform on educator professional learning: the new international Standards for Professional Learning from Learning Forward. These standards fill an important “knowing and doing” gap in education.

Power Up Your PLCs With The SMART Goals Process - Part I

“After several months of research and dialogue with practitioners throughout the nation, it became apparent that the hype was real. PLCs . . . are being used by schools and districts of all sizes and demographics to make significant impacts on student achievement.”

 ~ Evaluating Professional Learning Communities: Final Report

Anne delivers opening keynote at Missouri's Powerful Learning Conference - PLCs in Focus: From Vision to Results

On Monday, January 30, Anne presented the opening keynote address to more than 1400 participants at the 2012 Powerful Learning Conference. The theme of the conference, sponsored by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, was PLCs in Focus: From Vision to Results. Anne's topic in support of the conference theme was "SMART Goals for Focused Vision."

PLCs and SMART Goals

What is the relationship between professional learning communities (PLCs) and S.M.A.R.T. goals? One way to think about this is from the perspective of a school’s organizational capacity for change, learning and improvement.

In schools that function as professional learning communities there is strong organizational capacity. In these schools you’ll find teachers who:

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