Instructional System
Protocols
Essential Standards Selection: REAL Criteria and Vertical Alignment
Summary
This resource articulates guiding questions that may be used to identify essential standards. The supporting resources provide more clarity around the guiding questions, outline a process for vertical alignment of selected essential standards, provide a protocol for hearing all voices when making decisions, and a facilitation guide for doing the work.
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These resources might be helpful in the identification of essential standards. If a district is not ready to tackle this collectively, groups of classroom teachers and/or interventionists might use the resources to focus their instruction.
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Adaptive Schools. (n.d.). Six-Position Straw Poll. Retrieved from Adaptive Schools Live Binder: https://rowman.com/WebDocs/Six-Position%20Straw%20Poll.pdf
Ainsworth, L. (2013). Prioritizing the Common Core Identifying Specific Standards to Emphasize the Most. Englewood, CO: Lead and Learn Press.
Many, T., & Horrell, T. (2014). Prioritizing the Standards Using R.E.A.L. Criteria. Texas Elementary Principals & Supervisors Association, 1-2.