Product Description
 | Six key questions capture the challenges of making standards-based schools a reality. The “answers,” found in McREL’s research, guide Web site users through a process that will help ensure that teachers are teaching what students need to learn. Under each key question, findA typical dilemma schools and districts face when implementing standards Case studies describing how others resolved similar dilemmas Strategies for improvement that provide definitive advice on specific issues Resources that contain more detailed information about each strategy
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| Authors | McREL |
| Target Audience | School- and district-level leaders, curriculum developers, and teachers |
| Ways to Use this Product | Use this resource to answer these six key questions in your school or district:How can we ensure our district’s standards define what students should know and be able to do? How can we know what to teach at each grade level? How can we decide what is essential to teach when we have too many standards? How can we align our district's curriculum with our standards? How can we make the curriculum engaging for all students? How can we support the most effective implementation of the curriculum?
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 Key Ideas | Today's challenge is not only to ensure that standards are clear, specific, and represent best research, but to organize curriculum, instruction, and assessment around them. |
 How to Get this Product | Visit www.mcrel.org/KeysToLearning |
| APA Citation | Mid-continent Research in Education and Learning. (2005). PreK-12 Standards: Keys to Learning [Web site]. Aurora, CO: Author. |
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