THE BEST OF THE MARSHALL MEMO
Carefully chosen summaries to energize leadership, teaching, and learning
Planning Units and Lessons
Macro Curriculum Planning
- Building a coherent curriculum
- The ultimate power standard: what kids will remember in forty years
- A California high school crafts schoolwide essential questions
- Capstone projects for about-to-graduate eighth graders
Unit Planning
- Solving lesson-planning challenges with backwards unit design
- Teaching so students will transfer what they learn
- Focusing a curriculum unit on intended outcomes
- Teachers as curriculum designers versus curriculum implementers
Lesson Planning
- Lesson plans focused on three key questions
- Lesson plans: suggested elements
- What makes an effective lesson?
Structuring Lessons So All Students Learn
- Beginning and ending lessons effectively
- Structuring lessons so students engage in productive struggle
- Universal design for learning in action
- What UDL looks like in two classrooms
