Building Blocks, Learning Goals, and Success Criteria: Planning Instruction and Formative Assessment for K-8 Math Standards

This resource assists teachers in moving from a Yearlong Plan to establishing Learning Goals and Success Criteria for daily lesson plans and formative assessment for K-8 math college- and career-ready standards. The resource addresses two essential processes: (1) determining the series of changes that occur in student thinking or ability (i.e., “Building Blocks”) that lead from the previous grade’s learning to achievement of the current grade’s standards, and (2) determining the associated Learning Goals and Success Criteria for Building Blocks.

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Building Blocks of a Standard

This tool is used to organize teachers’ analysis of grade-level math CCRS in an instructionally meaningful way.

Lesson-Sized Learning Goals and Success Criteria

This tool is used to record the Learning Goals and Success Criteria of lesson-sized stacks of Building Blocks. Teachers may choose to use one template per stack or record multiple stacks on the same template.