Choose the skill
Review high-leverage standards, then use assessment evidence to identify the goal focus.
About Goal to Grow
Connect goals with purposeful teaching.
Goal to Grow helps educators connect what a learner needs to learn with how they will teach it—and how they will know it is working.
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Why Goal to Grow exists
Educators need practical tools to connect grade-level expectations with each learner’s strengths and instructional needs.
Goal to Grow was created to support that work: setting ambitious goals and identifying the explicit instruction, adjustments, and scaffolds students need to reach them.
This includes targeted foundational skill instruction alongside access to grade-level learning.
Our most striving readers deserve high expectations and meaningful support.
Who it helps
For classroom teachers, special educators, multilingual learner teachers, and instructional teams.
Currently focused on Virginia K–6 English language arts, with foundational reading skills and language supports.
Build a teaching plan
Build the goal
Set the task, conditions, and measures of success.
Plan the teaching
Choose supports for access and growing independence.
Check and adjust
Use progress evidence to guide the next teaching decision.
Behind the tool
Shaped by educator experience
Goal to Grow draws on experience in classroom teaching, special education, reading intervention, instructional coaching, literacy support, and elementary school leadership.
Teacher feedback from a pilot helped shape and refine the tool, connecting classroom needs with practical planning supports.