re: #84 Occasional Reader

Here’s that section in context…

Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails
marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country. Each area could be labeled with
three steps for achieving goals in those areas. It might make sense to focus on personal and
academic so community and country goals come more readily.
• Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected
and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their
goals.
• Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to post around the classroom.
• Interview and share about their goals with one another to create a supportive community.
• Participate in School wide incentive programs or contests for students who achieve their goals.
• Write about their goals in a variety of genres, i.e. poems, songs, personal essays.
• Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals.
• Graph student progress toward goals.

It’s about setting goals, making a plan, and implementing it. Very basic educational cognitive type stuff. It’s nothing spooky or sinister.