#5 Specific Goals
Original excerpt from 5 of 9 eBook Download of Stop Crying in the Restroom [it ain’t that deep]: A Guide to Effective Goal Setting for Any Teacher on a Mission.
After pulling the young guy off to the side of his opened classroom door I confirmed, “Things just don’t go the way we planned sometimes, huh?” His eyes gave him away. I hadn’t noticed them before. There wasn’t much there. His stare was part detached and part sleepy. I could tell by the crusty corners of his eyelids. A sign he wasn’t being monitored before leaving for school.
- The pro’s in this volume: Joseph Almeida, sixth-grade mathematics teacher at KIPP Infinity Charter School in New York City; Dakarai I. Aarons is a staff writer for Education Week; and all the educational professionals that helped to sercure Jeremy’s future and students like him.
