With your completion of the four modules, this last section provides resources and guidance to help you translate your new learning into your own practice and how you can serve as an instructional partner with peers. You will create a SMART goal focused on either student or professional learning including identifying necessary enabling conditions for success. After completing and reviewing this SMART goal with your learning partner, you will review and document completion of all other LIFT materials.
These resources and guides offer suggestions for effectively working with other educators and administrators to create and sustain instructional partnerships as an extension of professional learning for educators. These resources from Digital Promise are excellent guides for implementing instructional partnerships and coaching.
This short animated video provides a quick overview (or review) of the elements for creating SMART goals.
This compact guide by Future Ready Schools provides a simple way to understand SMART goals with a focus on aligning them to school and district strategic priorities.
View the video SMART Goals - Quick Overview and
Read the guide, Future Ready SMART Goal Setting Guide
Complete the SMART / CREATE worksheet on your own as the final activity of this learning path.
Review and discuss your SMART / CREATE goal with your learning partner.
What part was the hardest to figure out?
Is the goal too large, too small, or just right?
What enabling conditions (CREATE) need to be addressed now to ensure success in the future?
As learning partners, how can we support each other in the future?
When you and your learning partner have reviewed each others' SMART / CREATE worksheets, you are done with the LIFT Framework and learning path! You may be asked to complete a short evaluation and feedback form.