1. Assessment First What do you want students to know? know Consider performance based assessments Do not forget to use the standards – you can find whatever flexibility you need to deliver them

2. Design Creative Instructional Strategies How will they learn it?learn it? Use inquiry and exploration and activities as instructional strategies Students will learn more and retain more

3. Curriculum in depthdepth Narrower content scope Go deeper, not wider Develop greater student depth of knowledge

5. Assessment First What do you want students to know? Design Creative Instructional Strategies How will they learn it? Curriculum in depth Narrower content scope Consider performance based assessments Do not forget to use the standards – you can find whatever flexibility you need to deliver them Use inquiry and exploration and activities as instructional strategies Students will learn more and retain more Go deeper, not wider Develop greater student depth of knowledge