• 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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• Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching for Understanding
  In Powerful Learning, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a clear, comprehensive, and engaging exploration of the most effective classroom practices. They review, in practical terms, teaching strategies that generate meaningful K–2 student understanding, and occur both within the classroom walls and beyond. The book includes rich stories, as well as online videos of innovative classrooms and schools, that show how students who are taught well are able to think critically, employ flexible problem-solving, and apply learned skills and knowledge to new situations.
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• Powerpoint Presentation of UBD by Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe
  This 2002 Powerpoint presentation by UBD presents the "big ideas" of the model. Instead of opening, save the file in a powerpoint to view the presentation
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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 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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• 2005 Conf Wiggins Handouts
  The handouts from the powerpoint presentation by Grant Wiggins at the ASCD 2005 conference UBD and DI.
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• 2005 Conf. McTighe Handouts
  Handouts from Jay McTighe's powerpoint presentation at the ASCD UBD and DI 2005 summer conference
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• 2005 Conf. Tomlinson
  Handouts from the presentation by Carol Ann Tomlinson at the 2005 ASCD UBD and DI 2005 conference
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• Checking for Understanding
  Grand Island Public Schools strategies to check the understanding of learners. Many are cooperative activities.
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• Making Sense: Small-Group Comprehension Lessons for English Language Learners
  Reading is all about understanding. Many English language learners simply do not understand what they are reading, whether it's a picture book, a literature selection, or a science textbook. Juli Kendall and Outey Khuon believe that small group comprehension lessons have a key role to play in advancing students' understanding of texts.
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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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• ResearchBrief ASCD
  ResearchBrief is a Web-based publication that offers practitioners and policymakers focused summaries of original, interdisciplinary, high-quality research.
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• Teachers Magazine: Maths Misconceptions
  Issue 42 January 2006, Search for Maths Misconceptions for an article on common misconceptions often taught by teachers that impede real mathematical understanding.
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• Teaching for Deep Comprehension: A Reading Workshop Approach
  Linda and Carla mesh complex theories of comprehension with everyday practical examples in such a way as to help teachers develop a better understanding of what it means to comprehend while reading. The book's appendix contains a wealth of reproducible materials, including text maps, graphic organizers, book lists, and resource charts. Supporting the text is a DVD containing eighty-five minutes of video from a first-grade reading workshop (shared reading, author studies, share time), an adult book discussion, a fourth-grade reading workshop (mini-lesson and literature discussion groups), and other settings.
  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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• Tools For Understanding: A Resource Guide for Extending Mathematical Understanding
  This site is intended for educators who teach mathematics and are interested in integrating common technologies into their daily instruction. Our target audience includes intermediate and middle-grade teachers (particularly those who teach remedial math classes) and secondary special educators. While much of this site focuses on mathematics, there are a number of lessons and activities that are intended to blend mathematics with writing and make use of mathematical reasoning in other content areas such as social studies.
  This site is intended for educators who teach mathematics and are interested in integrating common technologies into their daily instruction. Our target audience includes intermediate and middle-grade teachers (particularly those who teach remedial math classes) and secondary special educators. While much of this site focuses on mathematics, there are a number of lessons and
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• Understanding by Design Professional
  Implementing ASCD’s popular Understanding by Design program is much easier when you use this in-depth resource for workshops, curriculum teams, and teacher training. This collection of templates, design tools, examples, and exercises helps you give all staff members a firm grasp of key UbD principles.
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• Serving English Language Learners Understanding State Law and Rules
  This prerecorded webcast is to provide local administrators, board members, and teachers with necessary information to meet the educational needs of English Language Learners. The presenter for this event was Adela Weinstein, Principal Consultant.
  This prerecorded webcast is to provide local administrators, board members, and teachers with necessary information to meet the educational needs of English Language Learners.
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• Understanding by Design and Differentiated Instruction: A Partnership
  Explains the relationship and commonalities between UBD and DI. Keep scrolling down to see the enduring understandings or axioms of each
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