Cory Camp, the director of professional development for Sibme, joins Steve in exploring how instructional coaches can use goal setting to guide teachers’ continuous improvement. They explore how evidence and […]

Studies identify that interventions that influence students’ beliefs about the relevance of school to themselves, their lives, and their society, can impact student academic tenacity and increase student success. Without […]

  Why might, “what’s your hypothesis?” be a better question to ask than, “what’s your goal?” A business article suggested that hypotheses create more organizational learning.  Several schools have been […]

Several of the districts I am working with have a policy that requires teachers to set yearly professional growth goals. I have spent time with building and district leaders examining […]

In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve looks at the benefits of rethinking goals as hypotheses. Read the article, “Why Hypotheses Beat Goals” here. […]

In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve ponders “Increasing Perseverance by Translating Goals into Behaviors.” Listen as Steve discusses how a Ted Talk and […]