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Goals
By Abby

I did something kind of like this. I helped them write the goals for the 1st nine weeks. Then every nine weeks after that, parents and student had to write some goals for themselves. We took these out at conference time
and I think it helped the parents realize that they are an important part of the team. They too, had to help out their child reach their goal. Some were family goals like "read each night as a family" and those were so successful! I did have a parent who didn't see it as a partnership and would not help his child set goals, he said it was my job. Some goals were social and some were

academic.
During the first week of school, we each write a letter to ourselves explaining what our yearly goal is. We seal them in an envelope, address them to ourselves and open them during the last week of school. The kids felt so awesome that they attained their goals and some couldn't believe it when they wrote "learn multiplication" as a goal because of course, at the end of the year they were way beyond multiplication.