SMART goals are a goal-setting framework designed to help educators set clear, actionable, and achievable objectives. The acronym stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound, guiding teachers to create goals that are well-defined and trackable.
Our SMART Goals Onsite Training helps schools foster a results-driven culture by equipping staff and students with the tools to set, track, and achieve meaningful goals. This hands-on training empowers educators to integrate SMART goal-setting into daily instruction, staff development, and student learning, ensuring clarity, ownership, and growth throughout your school community.
Whether you’re just starting to implement SMART goals or scaling them school-wide, this training provides a clear, step-by-step roadmap to create goal-driven classrooms that inspire continuous improvement.
Participants will:
Lifetime Access to Digital Resources.
Implementation workbook for note-taking.
6 hours of PD Credit.
Explore how specific, challenging goals enhance motivation, focus, and perseverance for both teachers and students. (Locke & Latham, 1990)
Learn how SMART goals can significantly increase student achievement, with an effect size of 0.50. (John Hattie, 2009)
Understand how to empower students to set goals that cultivate agency, motivation, and a growth mindset. (Nordengren, 2021)
Incorporate goal-tracking and self-reflection practices to help students stay accountable and adapt their goals as needed. (Zimmerman, 2002)
Promote collaborative goal-setting in PLCs to improve teacher professional growth, retention, and student outcomes. (Kraft & Papay, 2014)
Schedule one of our highly interactive, customized training sessions for your next teacher in-service day.
Have one of our consultants provide in-person professional learning within your staff’s PLC schedule.
Let one of our consultants provide training during a faculty meeting either before or after school.
This course is also offered as a live-virtual workshop — same great content, delivered in real time from anywhere.
Share your questions and staff needs below, and a Strobel Education consultant will reach out to you.
