Books
 Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition
In this expanded second edition, educators from K through college can get everything they need—guidelines, stages, templates, and tips—to start designing lessons, units, and courses that lead to improved student performance. Read more.
Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids
Find out how a curriculum built on the goal of student understanding, integrated with instructional approaches that emphasize reaching every learner, can provide teachers with more specific teaching targets and more flexible ways to reach them. Read more.
Check out the Study Guide for this book.
Making the Most of Understanding by Design
Explore how high-level users of ASCD's Understanding by Design (UbD) have applied this framework to improve both student achievement and organizational effectiveness. Read more.
Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook
Implementing an Understanding by Design program is much easier when you use this in-depth resource for workshops, curriculum teams, and teacher training. Read more.
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Audios
Strategies for Effective Questioning: Essential Questions as Doorways to Understanding
Explore the characteristics of good essential questions, review examples, and learn how to generate them for curriculum planning.
Strategies for Student Self-Evaluation
Teaching students to self-assess and self-adjust is key to high levels of performance. Explore 13 concrete and proven strategies for improving student self-evaluation in any subject.
Theory into Practice: Understanding by Design in Early Childhood
The first years of school have long been recognized as critical in laying the foundation for learning. This session, recorded at ASCD's 2003 Annual Conference, explores ways to design the early childhood curriculum around essential understanding.
Understanding by Design and Differentiated Instruction: Partners in Classroom Success
This session, recorded at ASCD's 2003 Annual Conference, examines the important connections between the Understanding by Design and Differentiated Instruction models.
Understanding by Design: Backmapping Our Instruction and Assessment to Meet the Needs of Every Child
Staff members from a Maryland public school collect evidence of understanding and help teachers use that evidence for instructional decision making about how to meet the needs of every student. The presenters share a staff development model and a sample unit.
Understanding by Design: Structures and Strategies for Designing School Reform
This session, recorded at ASCD's 2002 Annual Conference, explores how teaching for understanding affects leadership practices, school structures, and decision making in districts.
Understanding by Design: Using Backwards Mapping to Develop Depth and Breadth for Middle Schoolers
Participants in this session, recorded at ASCD's 2002 Annual Conference, examine an interdisciplinary unit to experience how educators are successfully organizing using the Understanding by Design model.
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Videos
The Understanding by Design Video Series
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe explain the six facets of understanding and guide you through the steps of designing curricular units that promote deep understanding of content. Interviews with teachers describe real-world applications of the unit-planning process.
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Professional Development Online Courses
Understanding by Design: An Introduction
This seven-lesson course introduces teachers in all grades and subjects to the Understanding by Design program for curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
Understanding by Design: The Six Facets of Understanding
This seven-lesson course explores the six "facets" of understanding. These six interrelated behaviors provide avenues through which educators can observe and evaluate students' growing understanding of the curriculum they are studying.
Understanding by Design: The Backward Design Process
This six-lesson course is the third in a series designed to help practitioners describe, explain, and apply the design principles and strategies associated with the UbD framework.
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On-site Training
Have an Understanding by Design expert come to you. The ASCD Faculty is a group of expert trainers and consultants from the field of education ready to design workshops, keynote speeches, consultations, or conferences for your district.
Ready to have an ASCD Faculty member visit your site? Send us an e-mail at ossd@ascd.org and let us know.
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Conference & Workshops
2006 Summer Conference on Differentiating Instruction and Understanding by Design: Powerful Keys to Student Learning
Expand your knowledge of differentiating instruction and Understanding by Design while you network with like-minded practitioners. This ASCD conference brings these two powerful tools together.
Professional Development Workshops
Institutes are meetings in conveniently located regional centers that offer you information, awareness, and training. Each one features presentations from acknowledged experts, practical tips from practitioners, and opportunities to exchange ideas and experiences with colleagues.
Download the complete 2005–06 Professional Development Catalog ( 2.0 MB).
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Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids
