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Because standards are sometimes written as overarching—and often complex—statements that can be interpreted in different ways, it’s important that teachers share a common understanding about the goals and targets of a standard

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Vertical alignment is important for standards. We like the idea of reading standards as a team to completely understand. It is important to remember to keep core language and not omit anything, prioritize don't eliminate. Pull vocabulary from standards. Focus on depth of knowledge.

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Unpacking the standards allows us to understand what needs to be taught and at what level of depth it needs to be taught. It helps us see what students have learned in previous grades and where they are heading after we teach them. It helps to ground us and makes us more accountable.

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Standards can be complex and sometimes interpreted in different ways. Because of this, it is important that teachers share a common understanding and goal for each standard.

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Unpacking the standards involves breaking down the complex portions into simpler, understandable parts.

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By unpacking the standards we would have a clear understanding of goals as a group...collaborative effort

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Unpacking the standards enables teachers and students to be able be on the same page and understand the specific expectations and goals of learning.

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Unpacking standards includes determining the skills and concepts kids need to know.  As a teacher you unpack the standards, then find the resources that match the standards and your students.

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By unpacking the standards we can assign proper DOK levels to questions that isolate the skills and the concept on the standards. We will also be able to share correct academic language with the students.

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By unpacking the standards, we better understand them, can prioritize them and design better lessons to accomplish them.

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Unpacking the standards ensures that all teachers and students have a clear expectation of what needs to be mastered. It gives everyone a big picture of the range of understanding students may have related to a specific skill. "Laser-like focus on the standards and team-created common formative assessments go hand-in-hand. When standards and assessments align it is easier to catch students quickly when they don’t understand and to provide extension when they do understand."

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"Those who unpack the standards are the ones that understand them..."

Determine the BIG Idea and the Essential Question...rind your resources...

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By unpacking the standards we are able to pull out the big ideas we want the student to take away.  In the article it says, "Facts alone aren’t going to get you where you need to go unless you’re a contestant on Jeopardy!" so by unpacking the standards we are working to assure students are understanding the big ideas of the standard and not just superficial facts and figures.

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We need to unpack the standards ourselves so we have confidence in our content and exactly what is expected of our students. Unpacking the standards will allow teachers to know the what, how, and depth of knowledge and to clarify any misconceptions of the standards. Unpacking allows us to find what standards are the bigger and our ẗarget"standards.

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