After the Essential Standards are selected in each grade for the first strand/domain/section of the content area in focus, the second step is for the four grade-band teams to come together and take a collective look across the PK-12 spectrum to see how to align the selected priorities from one grade to the next. This creates the “vertical flow” of those standards identified as being the most essential for all students to know and be able to do. Chapter Two describes in detail how educators successfully do this.

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