Get to know which practices related to curriculum, instruction, and assessment are essential to make learning the goal for every student! You’ll learn how to: Create learning targets that are scalable and transferable within and across units; develop instructional scales for each learning target; design non-scored practice activities and assessments; introduce and model skills that will be assessed and design tasks that allow students to use these skills; differentiate instruction and activities based on data from various types of assessments; maintain a gradebook that tracks summative achievement of learning targets, and score assessments accordingly; communicate progress clearly and efficiently with students and families.

Section I: Articulate Desired Results -- Developing K-U-Ds -- Creating Learning Targets -- Building Learning Scales -- Collaborating with Special Educators -- Section II: Develop Targeted Assessments -- Summatively Assessing Learning -- Formatively Assessing Learning -- Section III: Design Effective Instruction -- Designing Instruction -- Differentiating by Readiness -- Section IV: Monitor and Communicate Learning -- Monitoring and Grading Learning -- Communicating with Families.