You will first learn the “why” and “how of Essential Standards and then (a) see the important relationship between Essential Standards and supporting standards, and (b) understand how teams of educators use established criteria for selecting and vertically aligning Essential Standards, PK-12, to lay a strong foundation for the subsequent creation of standards-aligned units of study.

Prioritizing the standards is a separate series of virtual ITLS workshops available for school systems that recently revised current standards or issued new standards that require prioritizing. These workshops are also relevant for school districts that have not updated their Essential Standards in several years and/or have a significant number of educators and leaders new to their district that may have heard about Essential Standards but are not familiar with the rationale and actual process of prioritizing.

Whether through these publications or through workshops, the step-by-step, “how-to” process for prioritizing the standards in any content area and grade, continues to be followed by school systems across the United States, a dynamic, “timeless” process that is foundational for creating quality units of study.

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ESSENTIAL STANDARDS—FOUNDATION OF THE INTEGRATED TEACHING AND LEARNING SYSTEM©