Are You Heading in the Right Direction?
Ever see the movie, Planes, Trains and Automobiles with Steve Martin and John Candy?
I love the scene where they are heading down the highway and everyone is beeping at them and yelling...you're going the wrong way...
It's more funny to see it (watch it here) 2 minutes
The sad part is...this just happened to me the other day.
I have a lot going on right now...my mind is cluttered with emotions and tasks at hand.
I was trying to get back to my school when suddenly I realized, I was going the wrong way. Not the wrong way on a road (like the classic scene). The opposite direction of my school.
This is probably why I constantly use my GPS on my phone. 
In order to get from one point to another I need to know:
1. Where I am.
2. Where I am going.
If I get off track, the GPS will adjust my route.
Wouldn't that be great to have as a school leader?
Do you ever wonder.....
How to build a GPS for your school leadership.
How to measure where you are and...
How to Write Goals For Your Charter School
Does the school you lead, teach at or govern have goals?
I mean written down goals that are measured and evaluated each quarter, six months or a year to demonstrate the school’s progress towards its ultimate vision?
No one at the end of the school year says, wow, we crushed that financial audit or performance framework.
Don’t get me wrong, they are important aspects of your school - but they don’t inspire and do not result in significance.
If you don’t have written down, inspiring and celebrated goals, it is alright. You are not alone.
However, I think baseball great Yogi Berra was trying to tell us something when he said, "You've got to be careful when you don't know where you are going, you might not get there."
Now, one of the main problems in setting goals for schools is the principal or team writes a goal that does not lead to inspiration for all involved.
They set a goal that they know is attainable and it does not take any new...
