School Goals Work

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Goal Setting

SMART Goals don’t work. Let me show you how to turn this around.

Time Management

99% of students do not know how to manage time. I can fix this.

Prioritization

If they don’t know where they’re going, they’re lost before they start!

Greater student success with
something that really works?

How about a program that does not involve technology – Computers, Smart Boards, Google Classroom, iPads, Smartphones – but that is more effective than all of them combined? This is School Goals Work!

Dr. Michael Cubbin, Founder of School Goals Work

Why aren’t your SMART Goals making a difference? Because your staff has never been shown how they are supposed to work. I will start at the very beginnings of goal setting and have your teachers become experts! It is not hard, but it does require a step-by-step approach they will enjoy learning.

Students have plenty of time to complete their work with time to spare, but they need to have a reason to complete their work on time and do the best they can do! I will show your teachers how to use the students’ own grades to make this possible. It all goes back to goal setting! Without knowing how to set goals, they will never know why they should be managing their time.

I will show your teachers how to prioritize any aspect of classwork, and how to pass it on to their students. Learning prioritization is easy, but teachers need to know the “tricks” that make it possible!

School Goals Work

What Our Students Have to Say

This is the first time any teacher has had me follow my progress on a regular basis. It made a big difference in getting my grades higher. I also asked Dr. Cubbin for copies of the forms so I could use it in my upcoming 7th grade science class.
- Ping Z, Queens, New York

By her own admission Ping had always been a good student but her parents always felt that she could do better. I have monitors pass out the Goal Setting Folders to parents at Parent/Teacher conferences as they wait to speak with me. Her parents – like so many others – were ecstatic over the system I use and were thrilled to see how easy it was for their daughter to monitor “trends” in her progress. Like many other parents, I had parents request me for their younger children as they were so appreciative of how “adult” my approach to grades and goal setting made a difference on their children.
I really enjoyed tracking my progress in class this year. And even though we were not supposed to take our Goal Setting Folders home with us, I asked Dr. Cubbin if I could do it to show my mom how I was improving. She loved the idea of tracking my grades and even asked some of my other teachers if they could do this as well.
- Robert M, Queens, New York

I teach students that any document produced in class needs to be handled as a legal document, just as a doctor treats his or her medical files. As such, students are not permitted to remove the Goal Setting folders from the classroom, but it does help enormously when parents come in for impromptu meetings or during P/T conferences. The documents are student-created and are in the students’ own handwriting – not computer generated – with trending clear and unambiguous. Parents like how this creates a sense of responsibility and ownership for the student. Parents do not want to find fault with or blame teachers but without data shown in a clear and self-explanatory manner, they need to look somewhere for answers. My system delivers those answers.
Why don’t all my other teachers do this with goal setting? It makes so much sense and helps prevent my grades from slipping. Please speak with Ms. K so she will do this next year with us!
- Daniel R, Brooklyn, New York

As in most schools, unique and innovative change is slow and often tried for a short time and then forgotten, but I have taught in schools that were very open to change and it was there where I have used my program in “teams” (where the same class has different teachers) and so all students used the program from class to class. This is the ideal situation that students of all ages can easily understand and enjoy! Accountability and a sense of urgency for the students to grow and develop is multiplied many times over!
I have always been a bad student and I expected to do bad in Dr. C’s class as well. I didn’t do as bad as I thought. I told Dr. C it was because this was the first time any teacher ever made me follow my grade even though I wasn’t at the top of the class. It made me feel good about myself.
- Arias T, Brooklyn, New York

Arias was not one of my top students, but he spoke with me about how good he felt knowing that what he did to work on his grade could actually make a difference. This was one of the most heartwarming testimonials I have ever received!