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 TPEP: I Am Setting Gaudy Goals!

I first heard the term “gaudy goal” at a summer conference last July.When I heard the name, it struck me as funny, but I didn’t give much thought to it, until recently. I have been helping to support and train teachers in our district through the TPEP process, and therefore I have been thinking a lot about goals again. The Webster definition of gaudy is “extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless”. I like it! Especially the tasteless part, I could have used this to describe most of my middle school outfits, however that is the part that applies the least to this scenario.
I went through the comprehensive Teacher Principal Evaluation Project two years ago. When I was setting my goals ...
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