Setting Personal Expectations of Achievement

Executive Summary By Tanisha Adjokatcher

Too many times, people say don't and can't before even trying something. If these words come before any statement, you're pretty much setting yourself up for failure. Your subconscious, which runs the show in your life interprets this as a goal or task that is unattainable. Don't and can't brings in doubt that can affect performance.

Success = Hard work

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Achievement Diary - How it Can Change Your Life!
Executive Summary By Brian J Maxwell

Let me explain what an Achievement
diary is, an achievement diary is the best way to keep an account of all of your accomplishments whether they are big or small. The power that an achievement diary has on your ability to stay motivated is tremendous.

This achievement diary is a great way to keep track of your growth and progress.

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Academic Achievement and Student Economic Disadvantage
Executive Summary By Jack Marinchek

Douglas B. Reeves, May 5, filed in Teachers of Color Magazine, Spring 2009, "Uncovering Secrets of High Poverty, High Success Schools," states that there are no secrets. Having effective teaching and leadership are the instrumental factors that propel successful academic achievement by disadvantaged students.

*A focus on academic achievement
*Clear curriculum choices
*Frequent assessment of student progress and multiple opportunities for improvement
*Importance of non-fiction writing
*Collaborative scoring of student work

Focus on Academic Achievement
90/90/90/ schools clearly value achievement. Observation of these schools gave great emphasis of the importance they held for individual achievement in reading, writing, math, and social science. Walking down the halls of these schools gave evidence of charts, graphs and trophies of student improvements and achievements. Emphasis is placed on the growth of individual students.

Frequent Assessment of Students and Opportunities for Improvements
Less successful schools accepted and practiced oral responses. The successful schools all emphasized the written response.
There are two advantages of the written response method:

*Students can clarify their thinking when they are required to give written responses.
*Teachers can discern where the students weaknesses appear such as vocabulary, misunderstanding directions, reasoning problems etc.

High achieving schools made it clear that no accident of geography or school assignments would determine expectations for students. These schools practiced common assessment practices and had regular exchange of student paper grading. Teachers exchange papers with other teachers. Principals would exchange papers with other schools

Successful schools lead with great flexibility in time, assessment, and flexibility.
Successful 90/90/90 schools are also very inflexible when it comes to expecting genuine improvement and achievement from their students

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Dreams, Goals, and Achievement

Executive Summary By Dale Stuemke

Many people call this the dream. Think of a goal as a dream with a date on it. Dreams can be a bit vague but goals have to be specific. What is a "weight"? My dream was not something like that; my dream was an image I had in my mind. That picture in my mind was my dream.
During my life I have moved through weights from around 5-1/2 pounds to 220 pounds. Next, I had to refine the dream into a specific goal. I had to do some analysis to find a goal that would produce an acceptable vision. Dreams and goals are important, but you won't achieve them without a plan. I created a goal chart to track my progress on a monthly basis. And, I set an end date for achieving the goal. I'd had the dream before, and I'd had goals before. As time went on, I could look at my progress and decide whether the plan was working and whether I was really executing the plan. Well, I lost over half of what my goal was. The goal is established by defining the dream with numbers that are measurable.

Not Goal Setting But Goal Achievement
Executive Summary By Tom Terwilliger

Have you ever made a wish? On Thanksgiving, we have a ritual in our home where two of us clench opposing ends of the turkey wishbone, we quietly make a wish and pull. As the ritual goes, after the brutal conflict ends the victor of the large piece of the wishbone will have his dream become real, it hardly does.
After all we have been taught that if we put a commanding enough intention out into the universe we can accomplish it. I presuppose both of those statements are correct. Because had I received my wish, I may have been surrounded by a colossal herd of big horn elk. Notwithstanding, wishes do sometimes come true. But I'm confident the majority of us would rather not bet our life on the uncertain outcome of a dream.
You possess what Maxwell Maltz calls, an "internal success mechanism." This year you can start programming your internal success mechanism by turning your "New Year's Resolution" into an exact intention for your goal achievement.
That requires getting very clear on precisely what you desire, why you desire it, and write it down as a clear and comprehensive goal achievement statement. The reality is your power is bottomless