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Jan O’Neill and Anne Conzemius
with Dr. Carol Commodore and Carol Pulsfus
Foreword by Mike Schmoker, author of Results:
The Key to Continuous School Improvement
Publisher: Solution Tree, 2005
ISBN: 1-932127-87-9
This comprehensive yet easy-to-read book by the authors of The
Handbook for SMART School Teams (Solution Tree,
2002) and Building
Shared Responsibility for Student Learning (ASCD,
2001) shows readers how to transform their schools into places where
each and every student is meeting and exceeding standards by shifting
thinking to a focus on results.
The authors begin by presenting a framework, processes and tools
for adult and student goal-setting, including The QLD Framework,
The SMART Goals Process, The Tree Diagram, The 30+ Minute Meeting
Process. Once this groundwork is laid, the authors discuss:
- The barriers to goal-setting and monitoring
- How to "keep goals alive" through supportive
systems, policies, structures, and skill-building
- The role of assessment in goal-setting
- The power of goals to improve curriculum, instruction,
and assessment
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- The role of professional development practices in goal-setting
and improvement
- How to build capacity for goal-oriented thinking
- Case studies from real schools that are turning challenges
into opportunities for learning and improvement
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| "This book will persuade you that
goals . . . are the glue that holds teams and their
efforts together against the incessant distractions
that bombard us at every turn. This book helps us to
understand and implement the goal-oriented principles
and practices that will help schools to be . . . vastly
better than they ever though they could be."
Mike Schmoker, Author and Consultant
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| Jan O'Neill
Jan O'Neill has more than twenty years of training, consulting
and facilitation experience.
She brings diverse experience to the field of education,
having served as an early childhood, elementary and middle
school teacher; consultant to state and local governments,
healthcare and service industries; national consultant to
Fortune 100 manufacturing companies; and product marketing
manager for a national consulting firm.
Anne Conzemius
Anne brings a broad range of experience to her work as an
educational consultant. At the state level she served as the
Executive Assistant to Wisconsin's State Superintendent. In
that capacity she advised on educational policy and led the
Department's organizational strategic planning and restructuring
initiative.
Prior to this appointment, Anne was the Director of Employee
Development and Training for the state of Wisconsin. Anne
has also spent time in the private sector, having been a senior
level consultant for a human resource training and consulting
firm where she specialized in strategic planning and quality
improvement for government, education, and manufacturing.
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