Prioritize the state standards on the basis of need.

Power Standards: Identifying the Standards that Matter the Most

Science & Math

Ainsworth, Larry

Mathematics

Advanced Learning Press

A step-by-step process to understand what each standard is requiring a student to know and be able to do.

Unwrapping the Standards: A Simple Process to Make Standards Manageable

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Rigorous Curriculum Design (“RCD”) presents a carefully sequenced, hands-on model for educators and curriculum designers. The RCD model has proven to be effective in school districts across the US, and it serves as a road map so that educators may design a progression of units of study that keep standards, instruction, and assessment tightly focused and connected. Applicable to every grade, course, and content area—and fitting in to all sets of standards, you will learn: 
<ul>
<li>What a rigorous curriculum is and how to create, sequence, and pace such a curriculum.</li>
<li>Why seeing the 'big picture' connections first is essential to beginning curriculum design.</li>
<li>How to lay the foundational steps for designing a rigorous pre-K–12 curriculum.</li>
<li>How to design a grade- or course-specific curricular unit of study, from start to finish.</li>
<li>How to use formative assessments and data analysis to guide instruction before, during, and after each unit.</li>
<li>How leaders can organize, implement, and sustain this model throughout the school and/or school system.</li>
</ul> This new edition of RCD shares updates and enhancements to the process, gained through nearly a decade of learnings from myriad schools. Updates and new additions include: Greater applicability to every state’s unique set of learning standards, through Standards examples that illustrate each step. <ul>
<li>An important new focus on relevance in the design of rigorous curricular units of study, meaning the inclusion of real-world problems that are both predictable and unpredictable, situations that afford students the opportunity to apply their learning in realistic contexts</li>
<li>Expansion of content to include “lessons learned” by school and district leaders who are in years 1, 2, and 3 of RCD implementation</li>
<li>Success stories from school systems that have implemented the RCD model and experienced improved student learning on state exams</li>
</ul>

Rigorous and Relevant Curriculum Design 2019

Donovan, Kyra

ICLE

Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Math Program is a method for educators to use the texts and tools that they currently have to create a math instruction program that will create powerfully math literate students.

Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Math Program for Primary Grades

Christinson, Jan

Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Math Program for Upper Elementary Grades

Overview of Book This book is divided into four parts. Here is a brief overview of each part: Part 1, Seeing the Big Picture Connections First, defines curriculum in terms of rigor, provides the background of this model, connects curriculum design to the “big picture” of standards, assessments, instruction, and data practices, previews the step-by-step design sequence, and introduces end-of-chapter reader assignments. Part 2, Building the Foundation for Designing Curricular Units, explains the five steps that must first be taken to lay the foundation upon which to build the curricular units of study, and provides explicit guidelines for applying each step. Part 3, Designing the Curricular Unit of Study—From Start to Finish, gives the “nuts and bolts” directions for designing a rigorous curricular unit of study, from beginning to end, and concludes with an overview of how to implement the unit in the classroom or instructional program. Formatively assessing students along the way, educators analyze resulting student data to diagnose student learning needs and then adjust ongoing instruction accordingly. Part 4, Organizing, Monitoring, and Sustaining Implementation Efforts, addresses the role of administrators in beginning and continuing the work of implementation. These final three chapters provide first-person narra - tives and advice to administrators from administrators who have personally led the implementation and sustainability efforts of curriculum redesign and related practices within their own school systems. I have endeavored to pull together all of the elements necessary for designing a rigorous curriculum, to position these elements in a sequential order, and to provide a step-by-step approach for constructing each one. My hope is that this road map will not only “show you the way” to design your own curriculum, but also allow you the flexibility of customizing it to fit your own purpose and needs. As with the realization of any lofty vision, it will take a great deal of time, thought, energy, and collaboration to create and revise a single curriculum, let alone multiple curricula. The best advice I can offer is to regard whatever you produce as a continual “work in progress,” to be accomplished over one, two, or three years, or even longer. As my friend and colleague Robert Kuklis points out, curriculum designers “shape and modify the process as they move through it. It is important that they know this is not a rigid, prescriptive procedure, but rather an opportunity for learning, adapting, and improving. This preserves fidelity to the process, encourages flexibility, and promotes local ownership.” Whenever people’s spirits need lifting because the work seems so demanding, remind everyone that it is a process, not a one-time event. You are creating something truly significant—a comprehensive body of work that is going to serve your educators, students, and parents for years to come!

Rigorous Curriculum Design: How to Create Curricular Units of Study that Align Standards, Instruction, and Assessment

Lead + Learn Press

Navigating Assessment and Collaboration with the Common Core State Standards is the final volume in the Getting Ready for the Common Core Handbook Series. It focuses on strategies to ensure the preparedness of students for large-scale assessments of the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Included: practical instructions for developing common formative assessment processes, implementing the technique of "unwrapping" the CCSS, and aligning Professional Learning Communities and Data Team practices with the CCSS.

Navigating Assessment and Collaboration with the Common Core State Standards (Getting Ready for the Common Core Handbook Series)

Wiggs, Maryann D.

Briggs, Derek

Besser, Laura

Almeida, Lisa

Lead And Learn Press

School districts are implementing the Rigorous Curriculum Design (RCD) process to redesign their curricula to prepare students for success on the coming Common Core national assessments. Each chapter of Getting Started With Rigorous Curriculum Design will provide educators with “collective wisdom” — insights and ideas to enrich and expand understandings they may not have yet come to on their own. The RCD framework is a clearly laid out, step-by-step process that is welcomed by educators for its linearity. It begins with five foundational steps: Prioritize the Common Core State Standards; Name the Units of Study; Assign the Standards to the Units—Priority and Supporting; Prepare a Yearlong Pacing Calendar; Create the Unit Planning Organizer.

Book 2013: How School Districts are Successfully Redesigning Their Curricula for the Common (Getting Started with Rigorous Curriculm Design)

Anderson, Kristin R.

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

The consensus among educators nationwide is that in-depth instruction paired with focused assessment of essential concepts and skills are far more effective than superficially covering every concept and skill in the standards. Educators are faced with the task of teaching all standards while meeting the extraordinary range of student learning needs. Prioritizing the Common Core offers common sense solutions to the dilemmas teachers face today in implementing the new, more rigorous national standards. Chapters present a rationale for prioritizing the Common Core, a step-by-step process for prioritizing standards in language arts and mathematics, strategies for soliciting feedback and input from everyone in the district or school prior to the final determination of the Priority Standards, and detailed summaries of the process schools in six different districts used to identify their Priority Standards, with accompanying commentary by those who directed the work.

Prioritizing the Common Core: Identifying Specific Standards to Emphasize the Most

"Unwrapping" the Common Core is a stand-alone, how-to guide for busy educators who need a proven way to work with the new standards. The process of "unwrapping" is a powerful tool for effectively deconstructing state standards. This easy-to-read format includes grade-specific examples of "unwrapped" standards, enabling educators to confidently apply this simple, proven technique for making rigorous new standards manageable. Part One describes the complete "unwrapping" process with examples in both English language arts and literacy and mathematics. Part Two contains 60 "unwrapped" Common Core English language arts and math examples, each specific to one of the four grade spans: K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12. Part Three illustrates where "unwrapping" fits in the big picture of an integrated standards-assessment-curriculum-instruction system.

“Unwrapping” the Common Core: A Practical Process to Manage Rigorous Standards

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