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What specific outcomes does Janet want and how will she know success when she sees it?
Choice A
Janet wants children taught by participating teachers to gain social skills. She will know she is successful when she is able to see the incidence of referrals to the principal for misbehavior decrease.
Choice B
Janet wants the initial launching and implementation of the Cooperative Discipline program to be so successful that it will catch on and become a successful school-wide program. She will know success when the local newspaper declares the program an initial success.
Choice C
Janet desires that children at Eagle Elementary become more responsible for their own actions and apply their understandings of the consequences of inappropriate behavior to improving their own behavior at school at home and in the community. She will know she has succeeded by positive teacher and parent feedback.
Choice D
None of these choices quite says it all.
What specific outcomes does Janet want and how will she know success when she sees it?
You Chose A
Janet is on the right track and so are you, if you selected this strategic objective. Janet is specific about what children are to learn and a way to know the result was gained. The result and performance indicators, or signals of success, need work. The statement also is not complete.
Yes, one of the outcomes Janet desires is for children in the program to gain social skills. But, there are others. What about the type of skills they are learning, and for what? And, does she really want to identify results she wants to have happen for teachers and parents? Is it necessary?
For the several that she should list, however, she should come up with other performance indicators.
You Chose B
Perhaps this is a broader statement than Choice A. One might say it is a strategic goal – an umbrella for some Choice As.
Again, Janet’s on the right track, although she recognizes the program needs to be evaluated and perhaps adapted before expansion.
You Chose C
Wordy, isn’t this statement? It’s right on the mark, however. Can you streamline it so that it doesn’t sound so full of jargon? What other indicators of success should be considered?
You Chose D
That’s entirely right. We suggest that the best response include a broad mission and then several strategic objectives, or specific results. Each, of course, suggesting one or more performance indicators.
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