Setting School Goals for Transformation

As you begin the process of education reform through Synergizing your school or classroom, you must also begin analyzing what you want to accomplish. Keep in mind that Instructional Synergy is the process of organizing the curriculum, students, teachers, and parents so that all things and all stakeholders are working to achieve the same goals.

Instruction is crucial to Synergy, for that reason, educators must identify instructional goals. For instance, for your class your instructional goal may be that 65% of your students are proficient on the state reading assessment. Although, Synergy is designed as a test preparation model, Instructional Synergy can assist with other instructional goals like:

1. Increasing student participation in a book club.
2. Increasing student completion of homework.

Your Synergy goals must be written so that they can be measured. A sample Synergy goal would be “Overall student reading composite scores will improve to 79%,” or “Parent participation will increase by 10%.”

Synergy goals just like other goals, should be formulated to be reached. If your goals are not written to be reached, Synergy becomes just like other models, ineffective. The phenomenon that starts with well discussed and written goals.

What are your classroom or school goals? Consider these and then formulate SMART goals that align with your classroom or school needs:

• Get students and parents Synergized^TM about state assessments
• Increase parent involvement in assessment preparation
• Change your overall classroom or school approach to education

From Professional Learning Board’s online continuing education course for teachers: Synergizing a Classroom