Grant Wiggins

Understanding by Design Webinars

Meeting Standards by Design: Embedding Standards in the UbD™ Framework for Curriculum, Assessment, and Learning

Recorded May 23, 2012

Standards are like building codes: you have to meet them, but they are not the point of the design. The point of a curriculum is to honor both the school’s mission and important learning goals. So, a course or unit should provide rich, engaging, and rigorous ways of meeting the Common Core State Standards and assessing against them, not merely touch on related content. Grant Wiggins will present this thought-provoking and practical webinar, providing practical strategies to ensure that the standards are validly addressed in an engaging, effective, and robust curriculum.

Resources

• Webinar slides handout (PDF)

Creating High-Quality Units

Recorded March 10, 2011

Based on the ASCD book, The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units, this webinar focused on how to design units of study using the UbD framework.

Archived Webinar