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Follow a group of teachers and administrators from two districts who come together to learn how the Understanding by Design framework can help them tackle the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). While the two groups are at different stages of Common Core standards adoption and readiness, they both find practical solutions using the work of Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. Through interviews, classroom scenes and segments drawn from a Wiggins and McTighe Common Core and UbD Framework seminar, you'll see how to read and interpret the CCSS document, use the UbD template to unpack the CCSS, and bring CCSS-relevant lessons to life in your schools.

Marzano Research combines Dr Robert Marzano's 40 years of educational research with continuous action research in all major areas of schooling in order to provide effective and accessible instructional strategies, leadership strategies and classroom assessment strategies that are always at the forefront of best practice. Marzano Research provides teachers and school leaders with the tools they need to effect profound improvement in student achievement. This series is a collection of Marzano Research's invaluable resources.

Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins, this 45 minute video guides you through practical and proven processes, as well as suggested "response strategies" to encourage student engagement. Learn how to create a culture of inquiry so that all members of the educational community - student, teachers and administrators - benefit from the increased rigour and deepened understanding that emerge when essential questions become a guiding force for learners of all ages. See the process come to life with scenes from a seminar though by Wiggins and of teachers using essential questions in practice. In addition, McTighe and Wiggins provide expert commentary about their years of experience in schools exploring just what makes an essential question essential.

Your school is in the midst of unpacking, integrating and implementing the Common Core State Standards. To help teachers meet the challenge, Silver, Dewing and Perini have identified six best strategies for transforming instruction. Backed by more than 40 years of field research and hands-on classroom testing, the core six strategies are proven methods that not only increase student engagement and achievement, but also prepare students for tertiary-level education and career success. In this video, see the core six strategies come to life within six classrooms across different subjects and year levels.