Compelling goals motivate and energize individuals to reach higher levels of performance.
Clear and specific goals enable individuals to collect and use data to mark their progress toward goal attainment. A few good goals focus attention and energy upon the really important results. Exciting goals connect individuals with a dynamic, vivid vision for student learning. Within a school community, goals with the aforementioned attributes provide the fuel that accelerates learning for both students and adults. In many contemporary schools, goals exist in name only.