Goal Time: Self-Determined Learning for Middle and High Schools is an evidence-based practice that can be used by trained facilitators to enhance their supports for students as they grow in their self-determination. Goal Time is designed to guide trained implementers as they support students to self-select goals and develop skills associated with self-determination (e.g., problem solving, decision making, self-evaluating, self-advocating). Goal Time supports students with opportunities to learn a process they can use over time to identify and go after goals that matter to them, learning about and refining their understanding and use of self-determination skills and abilities.

As students use Goal Time, they grow in their motivation. They also learn about themselves and how to go after goals. Goal Time is a cyclical process that can be used repeatedly to support students as they identify new and different goals. This leads to enhanced academic achievement, social-emotional development, employment, community engagement, and quality of life outcomes.