The GREAT framework helps students upgrade a general wish to an actionable and achievable accomplishment with wrap-around support the whole way.

With this complete kit, you guide students in brainstorming and fine-tuning the perfect-for-them-right-now goal, building a ready-to-implement action plan, then following up later when motivation may have waned.

This project combines SEL skills with academic writing and psychology to create the ultimate real-life PBL.

Project kit includes:

• Teacher / Advisor overview detailed plans for each activity
• Project coversheet checklist with step-by-step student directions
• Core Values Inventory activity to help decide goal focus area
• GREAT GOAL Upgrade activity to learn the GREAT framework by taking unGREAT goals and making them better
• My Great Goal & Action Plan sheets to flush out exactly what and how students will do the impossible
• Goal bricks in 3 options to declare goals and create a wall display
• Persuasive Appeals Mini-lesson with handout and quiz to teach how ethos, logos, and pathos all help to motivate oneself
• 12 Inspirational Quote sheets for students to write motivational letters to themselves (using ethos, logos, or pathos!) to get back several weeks or months later reminding them of their goal
• 3 Goal Setting Tip sheets to help students use science-backed advice to stick to their goal
• Samples, Tips, & Rubric sheet for students to create amazing goals and letters
• PDF and EDITABLE Google files for all student materials

Use all sorts of ways like:

• Start of the school year in the all or for New Years
• At mid-semester conference or switch to second semester
• Start of a sports season or club activity
• Save for a quiet week on your Student Council group’s calendar

This resource is 23 PDF pages, plus Google files.

What grades is this intended for?
This should work for either middle or high school students. I have used it with 9th through 12th graders, but these activities don’t require any high school-specific skills. Please read the description and examine the preview file closely to determine if it is appropriate for your students.

What supports are included? Can I modify this?
Detailed teacher directions and editable Google file versions of student materials are included so you can modify activities to suit your group’s needs and setting. 

What are the terms of use for this resource?

This resource, including all ancillary files, may be used as needed for regular, non-commercial single-classroom use between a teacher and their students. 

This includes printing copies and sharing digital files with students through a secure platform, like Google Classroom or Canvas, email, or a classroom-only shared drive.

The using and sharing of any part of this resource in any manner outside the above-mentioned capacity is strictly prohibited. Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to,

• posting files on the open internet or in a Facebook group
• emailing files to or sharing print copies with others (without purchasing additional licenses)
• uploading or storing files in a shared cloud drive accessible by anyone other than students
• including any part, or any derivative work, within any commercial endeavor like curriculum development, professional training, or for-profit teaching like Outschool, or selling this resource as your own in either print or digital formats

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