Standards & Learning
This process involves identifying what students need to know, understand, and be able to do.
What is unpacking the standards?
Teaching content in a new way after identifying misconceptions.
What is Reteaching?
Fundamental purpose of an organization.
What is the mission?
The shared assumptions, beliefs, and values that guide behavior in a school.
What is culture?
Instructional and behavioral supports provided to all students.
What is Tier 1?
These represent the critical skills and knowledge students must master in a course or grade level.
What are the Priority Standards?
The posted outline guiding the day’s lesson, including opening, work session, and closing.
What is a Learning Framework?
The future an organization desires to create.
What is the vision?
A collaborative group responsible for leading and sustaining Continuous School Improvement work.
What is the Guiding Coalition (or Leadership Team)?
Targeted, small‑group support based on essential standards and data.
What is Tier 2?
A framework used to determine the level of rigor of a task or assessment.
What is Depth of Knowledge (DOK)?
A strategic, measurable goal designed to drive measurable improvement over time.
What is a SMART goal?
The ground rules or shared agreements that guide a team.
What are norms?
The quality and character of school life as experienced by students, families, and staff.
What is climate?
Extra time and support for students who struggle or need extension, provided during the school day.
What is intervention?
These statements, written in student‑friendly language, begin with “I can…”
What are Learning Targets?
The belief that all students are capable of performing at their personal best.
What are high expectations?
Promises among stakeholders about shared purpose and behavior.
What are Collective Commitments?
Agreement reached when all viewpoints are heard and the group’s will is clear.
What is consensus?
The measurable milestones showing progress towards a vision?
What are goals?
A collaboratively created tool used to measure student understanding and identify instructional needs.
What is a Common Assessment?
A framework that includes planning, instruction, assessment, and analysis for decision-making.
What is the Teaching - Learning - Assessing Cycle?
A group that works interdependently toward a shared goal and holds each other mutually accountable.
What is a TEAM?
Conversations where stakes are high, opinions differ, and emotions are strong.
What is a crucial (critical) conversation?
The most intensive interventions focus on providing one-on-one or small-group support to students with significant challenges, based on individualized needs.
What is Tier 3?