Initial Thoughts

Please jot down your initial thoughts to the challenge questions:

What are standards?

How does your student show their grade-level understanding?

Have you heard about standards-based learning? If so, what have you heard about standards-based learning?

When you are ready, proceed to the Perspectives section.

The learning cycle featured in this project is based on the STAR Legacy Cycle developed by the IRIS Center (2013; http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu), and based on the work of Dr. John Branford and colleagues (National Research Council, 2000).