From Plessy to Brown 2016 NEH Summer Institute

Essential Question What does powerful and purposeful planning look like? Topics Clarifying Our Goals

Understanding Understanding Return to your response groups (groups of 3) Respond to the questions on the right What is Understanding? What is it we are after when we say we want students to understand this or that? Is it evident that “to understand” and “to teach for understanding” are ambiguous and slippery terms? Johnson

What Do We Mean By . . . What Should Student Come Away Understanding? What Will Count As Evidence of That Understanding? Obenchain

Hmm . . . Let’s Talk A Little What do you think about the Standards and Accountability movement? Can Backwards Design be a part of a Standards and Accountability landscape?

Unpacking Standards In response groups, let’s review a set of state standards What do you notice about these standards?

Teaching With Big Ideas What are Big Ideas? How can Big Ideas help our students gain deeper understandings? What Big Ideas support the content learned this morning? Johnson