• Book Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition
  by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, This books explains Understanding by Design, presents research related to how "understanding" promotes transfer. Chapter and intro online. See also the related Professional Development Workbook.
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• Curriculum Frameworks (All content K-12)
  Language Arts, Science, Math, and Social Studies K-12 curriculum development frameworks by Grand Island Public Schools based on UbD Includes essential questions and understandings
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• Curriculum Mapping: Greece Central SD New York
  This site provides templates for curriculum mapping using backward lesson design (Understanding by Design) with themes and essential questions. It is not ESL specific but is a most valuable resource to help ESL teachers include these components in their curriculum development for ELLs.
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• Greece Central School District NY: Curriculum and Instruction
  This site offers excellent support for backward design curriculum dev. See departments for Understandings etc. See English Lang. Arts for great strategies also.
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• Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design
  Discover how two of education's most powerful frameworks can team up to provide your school with a comprehensive and in-depth approach to ensure all students are learning at maximum levels. The leading experts on Differentiated Instruction (Carol Ann Tomlinson) and Understanding by Design (Jay McTighe)
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• The Words Came Down!
  English Language Learners Read, Write, and Talk Across the Curriculum, K-2 Browse the entire book online! "The Words Came Down" by Parker and Pardini outlines structures that successfully support ELL students both in the classroom and throughout the school, and shows teachers how to implement workshops in writing, reading, social studies, math, and science. Multiple examples of Understanding by Design.
  Stenhouse books and videos help K-12 teachers deepen their professional knowledge and build their students' skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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• UbD Exchange
  Using the Understanding by Design (UbD) Exchange, educators in every grade and subject can design standards-based lessons, units, and courses that adhere to the principles of UbD. This is a subscription site.
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• UBD Exchange
  OUTSTANDING SUPPORT FOR UBD!!! Subscription site. The Understanding by Design Exchange is a cooperative Web site devoted to the development and peer review of curriculum units.
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• UbD Related Web Sites
  This site provides support for each phase of the Understanding by Design instructional planning templates. See Phase one for Curriculum development support based on understandings/big ideas.
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• UbD Related Web Sites (Support for Assessment)
  This site provides resources for Understanding by Design. Scroll Down for the resources for phase II which focuses on the performance tasks. There is assessment help for all content areas. See the multiple examples of rubrics.
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• UBD Resources for Sale
  Understanding by Design (UbD) is a framework for designing curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction that lead your students to deep understanding of the content you teach. The UBD Professional Development Workbook is very teacher friendly and an POWERFUL resource.
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• UBD Unit Template.doc
  This is the Unit/lesson planning template for the UBD instructional design
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• Understanding by Design Expanded 2nd Ed, Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
  This is the comprehensive text for the UBD design. Since 1998, thousands of educators have used Understanding by Design to answer these questions and create more rigorous and engaging curriculums. Now, this expanded second edition gives you even more tools and strategies for results-oriented teaching:
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• Understanding by Design Overview PDF
  This PDF file provides an overview of the UBD design: templates and explanations, including GRASPS for performance tasks
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• UnderstandingbyDesign_219619_7.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  Examples of Language Arts UBD lessons with understandings and excellent strategies.
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• Welcome to VIPS (A must see!)
  Valle Imperial Project In Science Select the science curriculum topics of interest for great lesson resources. Be sure to see the Storylines which provide a graphic representation of each unit.
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• Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping: DVD With Facilitator's Guide
  Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping DVD With Facilitator's Guide This DVD is top help educators develop curriculum in ways that include components by Understanding by Design ASCD and mapping suggestions of Heidi Hayes Jacobs. (I have not seen the DVD, but support the practices it refers to J. Gordon)
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• Making the Most of Understanding by Design
  Explore how high-level users of ASCD's Understanding by Design (UbD) have applied this best-selling framework to improve both student achievement and organizational effectiveness. Incorporating advice and guidelines from educators throughout the United States, John Brown gives you a behind-the-scenes look at how they leverage UbD principles to enhance student learning, student achievement, staff performance, and organizational productivity. Discover what it takes to expand UbD from a pilot project to a roadmap for systemwide improvement.
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• Secondary Science Unit Template Course (Earth Science)
  Earth Science curriculum for a unit in earth science from Saint Paul Public Schools. (Relationship between earth and solar system).
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• UbDGlossary.pdf
  This is a Glossary of the terminology used in Understanding by Design
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