What are Essential Outcomes?

What Essential outcomes are:

Essential outcomes represent the essential understandings that a student must learn to reach high levels of learning
Essential outcomes identify “have to know” versus “nice to know” which informs planning and instruction
Essential outcomes help us identify which students did not master specific essential outcomes and need additional support
Essential outcomes support common assessment development

Essential outcomes do not represent all that you are going to teach.
Essential outcomes do not omit parts of your curriculum
Essential outcomes are not for reporting purposes only - you can’t stick them into a report card as is...
Essential outcomes do not focus only on PATs