Means of assessing student's ability to demonstrate skills and knowledge.
What is Formative Feedback?
100
These are the standards that will be guaranteed: taught, assessed, and re-taught if necessary.
What are Priority Standards?
100
Explanation of what is included in the unit designed around specific content standards.
What is Unit Overview?
100
Describes the prior learning, the current learning, and the future learning for each standard. This information can be used to understand the particular grade level expectations for each standard, as well as potential extension and remediation goals.
What is Learning Progressions?
200
Extended projects (one, two, or more days) demonstrating real-world writing and analytical skills. May include online research, group projects, and presentations.
What is Performance Task (PT)?
200
Reading standards broken into the categories of literature, informational texts, and foundational skills.
What are Anchor Standards?
200
An idea that connects across units and grade levels.
What is Big Idea?
200
Webb developed four levels that grow in cognitive complexity and provide educators a lens on creating more cognitively engaging and challenging tasks.
What is Depth of Knowledge?
300
A state-led consortium developing assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards.
What is Smarter Balanced (SBAC)?
300
Standards directed toward fostering students' understanding and working knowledge of concepts of print, the alphabetic principle, and other basic conventions of the English writing system.
What are Foundational Skills?
300
Words used for the subject being studied.
What is Content Vocabulary?
300
Those concepts we want students to remember ten years from now that have value beyond the classroom.
What is Enduring Understanding?
400
An SBAC item requiring more analytical thinking and reasoning that will be scored using artificial intelligence.
What is Short Constructed Response (SCR)?
400
These are the standards that will be taught in conjunction with the Essential Standards, but they will not be main focus of assessment.
What are Supporting Standards?
400
A clear statement that highlights what students will learn, how they will learn it, and the evidence produced by the student that demonstrates their understanding within a given lesson.
What is Learning Target?
500
Questions based on the important concepts that we use to guide or drive instructions and assessment.
What is Essential Questions?
500
These are standards explicitly taught in the first unit and appear as embedded standards in subsequent units: these standards will be an integral element in daily lessons. The standards are generally the foundational reading standards in elementary, and the speaking and listening standards at all grade levels.