2. SMART goals
• Specific/Strategic: Targets student
population
• Measurable: Identifies evidence/data
• Action Oriented: Identifies outcomes, “who”
is doing “what”
• Rigorous, Realistic, and Results-Focused:
students will increase scores by 10%
• Timed and Tracked: Timelines clearly
defined

3. Goals That are Not SMART
• Teachers will meet together to plan
units.
• Continue to attend district workshops.
• Teachers will use the District’s pacing
guides in math.
• Teachers will utilize benchmark testing
results.

4. Examples of SMART Goals
• The percentage of all special needs students
scoring in the Proficient category on the Math NJ
ASK test will increase by 10% from the last NJ ASK
Math test.
• Using the President’s Challenge Physical Fitness
program components, all students will increase their
physical fitness, with 85% of the students performing
at or above the 50th percentile on all five
components.
• By June 2013, 90% of first grade students will score
at low risk in oral reading fluency as evidenced by
the DIBELS Assessment.

5. Examples of SMART Goals
• By the end of the 2011-2012 school year, K-5
music students will increase achievement from
5% to 10% in melodic and rhythmic literacy as
measured by common assessments and rubrics
aligned with the NJCCCS for music.

6. SMART or Not?
• 100% of students will advance a reading
level as measured by reading
comprehension scores.
• Is this goal Specific, Measureable,
Action‐ oriented, Realistic/Results
oriented and Time‐ bound ?

7. SMART Goal Revision
• 100% of grade eight team’s students will
advance 1‐2 reading levels by the end
of the first semester, as measured by the
reading comprehension scores on
DRA‐2, so that by the end of the
2011‐2012 school year all students have
advanced 2 or more reading levels in
reading comprehension.

8. SMART or Not?
 The grade four team will create reading
comprehension formative assessments
and analyze formative data.

9. SMART Goal Revision
• Beginning in September, the grade four
team will create monthly, reading
comprehension formative assessments
so that 100% of the teachers are using
the assessments monthly, and analyzing
the resulting formative data to inform
instruction based on the student
outcomes.