Are you ready for an easy way to write goals and monitor progress? Peggy and Carlo will walk you through setting goals that are easy to monitor and creating a monitoring tool that can help you decide whether your client is on track, it’s time to change the intervention, or it’s time to work on more challenging goals.

Stress-free monitoring begins with a well-written goal. While making a goal SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-Bound) is a great start, how many times have we written a SMART goal that contained too many conditions to be easy to measure?! So, in the morning, you will learn the 3 Common problems with SMART goals and the 4 Strategies to make your SMART goal easy to monitor. You will practice utilizing Apply EBP’s simple worksheet for goal creation with the guidance of your instructors. You will then go through the 3 Steps for the creation of an accompanying data collection system. You will gain 4 Tips for making it user-friendly to different members of the team, and helpful in making informed decisions. You will learn and practice how to use this data collection system in making objective decisions about whether your client is on track, it’s time to change the intervention, or it’s time to work on more challenging goals.

Finally, Peggy will discuss the 5 Steps of the collaborative goal-writing process, and how you can utilize the lessons you learned earlier in the day to collaboratively-written student-centered goals.

Bring sample goals that you need to improve and case vignettes that you find challenging. There will be multiple opportunities to practice goal creation, monitoring, and decision-making, as well as interactive Q&A discussions with the instructors. Leave the day with concrete strategies and the confidence to create goals and monitor them meaningfully!

See the tools that you will receive for attending this course in the Toolkit tab below.

Peggy Morris, OTD, OTR/L, BCP is an OT with 30+ years of peds experience in early intervention, private practice & out-patient, but most of her experience & passion is in school-based practice. She coordinates the post-professional MS and OTD programs & school-based certificate program at Tufts University. She is Board Certified in Pediatrics through the AOTA, and a regular SeekFreaks contributor.

Carlo Vialu, PT, MBA served as Director of Physical Therapy for the NYC Department of Education, where he oversaw a program with over 700 PTs working in more than 1,500 schools. He is project manager of research on normative data for five mobility tests for school-aged children, & co-founder of SeekFreaks.

Disclosures: Peggy receives a speaking fee from Apply EBP, LLC. She has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose. Carlo is the owner of Apply EBP, LLC, and receives a speaking fee from Apply EBP, LLC. He has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.

“This was an excellent course! I learned so much about goal writing and data tracking!” – OT with 9 years experience

“I liked her approach. She found ways to make what can be complicated data collection into something more manageable and I will be using [the] table for stander data collection starting now.” – PT with 22 years experience

To help you apply what you learned the very next day you return to work, you will leave the course with your Practical Toolkit:

• Checklist: Goals that Are Easy to Monitor
• Cheat Sheet: Tips for Improving Goals
• Spreadsheet: Goal Monitoring and Decision-Making Chart
• Resources: Must-reads