Goal...accomplished!

Here I sit at school during another snow day! No kids, a million things to get done. Yesterday I got a call from a teacher, "do you have a minute to meet with a student?" I said sure, send him over. After 10 minutes, he had not arrived, I walked down the hall to the classroom. I went in the room and over to the boy who was organizing items in his folder during the literacy block. I bent down next to him and ask what's going on? He looked up at me, and said "I met my reading goal today." Awhile ago, I had "caught" this boy writing in class about how he wanted to reach his reading goal. We walked to my office and talked about how he met his goal, how he felt about it and his next goal. He was so excited to share with someone in addition to his teacher! Priceless.