Notebook: Leader in Me

Set a personal and an academic Wildly Important Goal, naming the actions required and the people who can help

Rate how consistently they carried out a classroom leadership role using a printed 0-to-3 scale, then set a goal for the next nine weeks

Judge their own classroom habits against nine written statements, from following directions the first time to completing homework

The mission-statement pages arrive already written for one school — Camelot Elementary and its Camelot Knights — so budget time to replace that wording before the binder goes to another class.

The benchmark tables are laid out for Fall, Spring and STAAR; classes outside Texas can relabel the third pair of columns for their own state assessment.

The reading chart tops out at 120 words per minute, so select or adapt the scale for the reader and task.

Goal setting — students write a personal and an academic Wildly Important Goal and list the actions and the people needed to reach each one.

Self-assessment — a printed 0-to-3 scale has students judge how consistently they carried out their leadership role, and a nine-statement page has them rate their own classroom habits.

Data literacy — students write goals beside scores on benchmark tables and plot unit results on 0-to-100 bar grids.