In this section, you’ll explore personal and collective goal-setting as a critical self-management skill that can promote an individual’s sense of agency.

Step 1: Read

Educators can support young people to develop self-management practices by collaborating with them to work toward their personal and collective goals. Read the article below to learn about one approach to increasing students’ sense of themselves as agents of change.

Article - Guiding Students to See Themselves as Changemakers

Step 2: Write

After reading the article, consider an upcoming opportunity where you might support students in seeing themselves as changemakers. Try writing your own challenge question for exploration. Use the sentence frame in the Writing a Challenge Question document below to create your own, or have students create one for themselves.

Word - Writing a Challenge Question

Step 3: Explore

Explore the resources in the drop-down menu below, which are related to setting personal and academic goals. As you engage with the resources, consider the following questions:

How might you invite your students or colleagues to develop the skills of setting personal and collective goals?
When would you encourage them to use this skill?
What practices could you share with them to develop this skill?

Supporting Students to Set Personal and Collective Goals

Explore different ways to support students as they set personal and academic goals using the guidance in the article below from the Core Collaborative. These practices could also be adapted for use with groups of adults or mixed-age groups.

Article - Empowering Learner Agency through Goal Setting

Supporting Adults to Set Personal and Collective Goals

Consider how you might use a journaling practice to support reflection and growth by reading the article below. These practices could also be adapted for use with students.

Article - Creative Ways to Use Professional Journaling to Reflect and Celebrate Growth as an Educator