1. From Plessy to Brown
2016 NEH Summer Institute

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

3. 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

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

5. 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?

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

7. 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