Standards-Based Learning
The Purpose of a Standards-Based Learning System is to maximize the academic achievement and personal growth of each student by focusing on prioritized standards that ensure students develop skills necessary to live a life of infinite possibilities.
The students in a Standards-Based Learning System enhance their agency when they:
- Articulate/explain the purpose of their learning
- Identify what they are learning
- Know what success looks like
- Prioritize strategy and effort to demonstrate evidence of acquired knowledge and skills
- Respond to feedback, self-assess their work, and reflect on their strategy and effort to inform or affirm next steps for learning
- Engage in, and be responsive to, opportunities to learn
The teachers in a Standards-Based Learning System accelerate learning for each student and enhance their agency when they:
- Establish a shared purpose for learning
- Align learning targets & success criteria to the priority standard
- Communicate the scale for success criteria
- Develop tasks to gather evidence aligned to learning targets & success criteria
- Provide feedback to students to inform or affirm next steps for learning
- Plan engaging lessons aligned to priority standards that are differentiated & responsive to student learning needs
The administrators and specialists in a Standards-Based Learning System accelerate teacher engagement when they:
- Engage teachers in operationalizing the standards-based learning system
- Empower teachers to design high-quality instruction and assessment rooted in priority standards
- Articulate building-wide goals that advance the implementation of standards-based learning
- Design and facilitate professional learning opportunities to build teacher capacity
- Establish and support a culture of high expectations and rigorous opportunities to learn for each student