The Success Criteria Playbook: A Hands-On Guide to Making Learning Visible and Measurable

Provide students a clear view of what success looks like for any process, task, or product.

What does success look like for your students? How will they know if they have learned? This essential component of teaching and learning can be difficult to articulate but is vital to achievement for both teachers and students.

The Success Criteria Playbook catapults teachers beyond learning intentions to define clearly what success looks like for every student--whether face-to-face or in a remote learning environment. Designed to be used collaboratively in grade-level, subject area teams--or even on your own--the step-by-step playbook expands teacher understanding of how success criteria can be utilized to maximize student learning and better engage learners in monitoring and evaluating their own progress. Each module is designed to support the creation and immediate implementation of high-quality, high impact success criteria and includes:

- Templates that allow for guided and independent study for teachers.
- Extensive STEM-focused examples from across the K-12 STEM curriculum to guide teacher learning and practice.
- Examples of success criteria applied across learning domains and grades, including high school content, skills, practices, dispositions, and understandings.


Author: John T. Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Kateri Thunder
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Published: 02/12/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Spiral
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 10.70h x 8.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781071831540

About the Author
Almarode, John T.: - "

Dr. John Almarode has worked with schools, classrooms, and teachers all over the world. John began his career teaching mathematics and science in Augusta County to a wide range of students. Since then, he has presented locally, nationally, and internationally on the application of the science of learning to the classroom, school, and home environments. He has worked with hundreds of school districts and thousands of teachers. In addition to his time in PreK - 12 schools and classrooms, he is an Associate Professor and Executive Director of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education at James Madison University. At JMU, he works with pre service teachers and actively pursues his research interests including the science of learning, the design and measurement of classroom environments that promote student engagement and learning. John and his colleagues have presented their work to the United States Congress, the United States Department of Education as well as the Office of Science and Technology Policy at The White House. John has authored multiple articles, reports, book chapters, and over a dozen books on effective teaching and learning in today's schools and classrooms. However, what really sustains John and is his greatest accomplishment is his family. John lives in Waynsboro, Virginia with his wife Danielle, a fellow educator, their two children, Tessa and Jackson, and Labrador retrievers, Angel, Forest, and Bella.

John can be reached at www.johnalmarode.com.

"Fisher, Douglas: -

Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High. Previously, Doug was an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is the recipient of an International Reading Association William S. Grey citation of merit and an Exemplary Leader award from the Conference on English Leadership of NCTE. He has published numerous articles on teaching and learning as well as books such as The Teacher Clarity Playbook, PLC+, Visible Learning for Literacy, Comprehension: The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading, How Tutoring Works, and most recently, How Learning Works. Doug loves being an educator and hopes to share that passion with others.

Thunder, Kateri: - Kateri Thunder, Ph.D. served as an inclusive, early childhood educator, an Upward Bound educator, a mathematics specialist, an assistant professor of mathematics education at James Madison University, and Site Director for the Central Virginia Writing Project (a National Writing Project site at the University of Virginia). Kateri is an author for Corwin′s Visible Learning for Mathematics Series, a member of NCTM′s Research Committee and of the Writing Across the Curriculum Research Team with Dr. Jane Hansen, co-author of The Promise of Qualitative Metasynthesis for Mathematics Education with Dr. Robert Berry, and co-creator of The Math Diet. Currently, Kateri has followed her passion back to the classroom. She teaches prekindergarten, serves as the PreK-4 Math Lead for Charlottesville City Schools, and works as an educational consultant. Kateri is happiest exploring the world with her best friend and husband, Adam, their daughter, Anna Rixey, and family. Kateri can be reached at www.mathplusliteracy.com.
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