Why are standards so important, and how do they improve student learning? In The Authentic Standards-Based Environment: A Systematic Approach to Learning Targets, Assessment, and Data, Eileen Depka dives into standards-based student learning with a simple, easy-to-use approach to unpacking standards, developing learning targets, and designing rubrics and assessments. Using data-driven methods and clear examples, this book makes a standards-based process manageable.

K-12 teachers and administrators will:

• Learn to unpack standards and understand the components and expectations rooted in them
• Understand how to design standards-based learning targets that directly connect to each component of the standard
• Design individual and common assessments that link with the rigor and expectations of the standard
• Report data and design a scope and sequence that will guide next steps
• Discover how to implement a standards-based system school- or districtwide

Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: The Foundation
Chapter 1: Unpacking Standards--Why and How
Chapter 2: Designing Standards-Based Learning Targets
Part 2: Tools and Analysis
Chapter 3: Creating Standards-Based Assessments
Chapter 4: Creating Standards-Based Rubrics
Chapter 5: Implementing Common Assessments to Ensure Comparable Data
Chapter 6: Using Unpacked Standards to Report Data and Create a Scope and Sequence
Part 3: Embedding the Process
Chapter 7: Implementing the Process School- or Districtwide
References and Resources
Index