Selection Goals: refers to the Program Goals from the PDEP. Beware that your school may also have Goals; we can't change what the school calls Goals.  Goals remain important in this class because Selection Targets come directly from them.

Selection Targets - Expectations: 

• Definition: this year's foci for selection; a directive that helps you choose how to spend dollars in the current budget cycle.
• Clear connection to School Mission (or AYP goals, or School Improvement Plan, etc.), using similar vocabulary.  In fact, there should be articulated, smooth progressive alignment from School Mission-SLMP Mission-Student achievement to Program Goals to Selection Targets and finally to purchases. 
  
• Based on Program Goals from PDEP
• Accompanied by Rationales that tie Target to Program Goal(s) and School Mission - be explicit, but not necessarily lengthy.  Targets should generally have separate rationales - although some may duplicate.  In other words, don't try to write one big blanket rationale, because such a generalization won't help you argue for specific purchases.  Student achievement should be related somehow as well, if not explicit in the School Mission.
• Rationales or targets themselves should explicitly describe how one or more specific media program needs are to be met by proposed purchases.  (Such a need might be to improve support of the curriculum.) Other needs might emerge from specific problems, like a gap in the collection, equipment inadequacies, or facility needs.
  
• These Targets very likely change every year.  I recommend that you conceptualize the Target section as a separate piece of your Selection Policy that's easy to change annually.
  
• Targets, by their nature, should clearly indicate the kinds of things to be purchased.  If not obvious, make sure to add this information.
  
• Develop one or more Targets for your Selection Policy Draft, depending upon your PDEP. In your Final Order this semester, you will design a collection around a single Target.
• Remember that these major discussions and decisions must have input from the Media Committee.