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Goal Check is Zion’s implementation of the ACE daily goal system. Each morning, staff set a page goal for every PACE (ACE curriculum unit) a student is working on. At the end of the day, staff mark what the student actually completed. Every goal and result is stored in the same record, so a student’s morning goal and evening outcome always tie back to one entry. Administrators, supervisors, and monitors can set goals and mark progress. Which learning centres a supervisor or monitor sees depends on their centre assignment; administrators see every centre.
Goal Check dashboard with daily page goals and completion outcomes

The Goal Check dashboard showing daily goal and progress data for a learning centre.

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Two ways to run Goal Check

Both paths write to the same underlying data. Pick whichever fits how your day runs.
Use the dedicated Goal Check pages when you want to work through goals or results outside a guided flow, one student and PACE at a time.
  • Set Goals enters the morning page goal for each active PACE. See Setting goals.
  • Mark Progress records what a student actually completed against that morning goal. See Marking progress.

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Recording a day that wasn’t a normal PACE day

Not every day fits a page goal. A student can be marked Absent or Excused, or as present but doing non-PACE work, such as a review, an essay, a science project, or another activity manual. When staff choose non-PACE work, they also pick an activity type so the record shows what the student actually did that day. None of these three outcomes count as a missed goal, and none of them pull down a student’s completion rate or feed into Goal Check’s pattern insights. They are an honest record of a day that could not be measured against a page goal, not a mark against the student. See Marking progress for how to record one.

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Completion outcomes

When a student’s actual pages are recorded against their morning goal, the result lands in one of three outcomes: Alongside the outcome, Zion records variance: the difference between the pages goaled and the pages actually completed. Variance can be positive (more pages than goaled), zero (goal met exactly), or negative (fewer pages than goaled).

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Why it matters

A written record of what was goaled versus what was actually done gives supervisors and administrators a consistent basis for spotting students who are falling behind and for judging whether goals are set at the right level for a student, rather than relying on memory or paper notes at the end of the day.

Setting goals

Enter morning page goals per student and PACE

Marking progress

Record actual pages completed at end of day

The daily routine

Run the guided Morning Routine and End of Day session for a whole centre

Reports

Daily and weekly Goal Check reports