Begin with the End in Mind
Bryan Hearn, High School Dean of Curriculum and Instruction
Andrew Hodges, Middle School Dean of Curriculum and Instruction
Objectives
 Revolutionary Teachers WBAT describe the
importance of beginning with the end in mind
 RTWBAT understand how to use foundational tools.
Visualize
“It always seems impossible until it is done.”
Nelson Mandela
What is a Long Term Plan?
 An LTP is a document that charts how you have
logically grouped and sequenced the standardsaligned learning goals.
Why create an LTP?
 Teach better, and teach more!
 If the path the goal is not efficient, our students will
be underserved.
 LTPs provide
and organization.
LTPs…
1. Sequences Soulsville Standards logically.
2. Groups learning goals into units.
3. Order units and plot them on the
school calendar
How will an LTP help me?
 …purposefully prioritize actions that lead to
the achievement of the ultimate goal.
 …frequently ask, “Am I where I need to be?”
 …become a content expert and be able to
plan for student misunderstandings.
 …be liberated from the troubling cycle of
“day-to-day” living and planning!
How will an LTP help me?
 …purposefully prioritize actions that lead to
the achievement of the ultimate goal.
 …frequently ask, “Am I where I need to be?”
 …become a content expert and be able to
plan for student misunderstandings.
 …be liberated from the troubling cycle of
“day-to-day” living and planning!
Without an LTP, you’d look like this
What to teach tomorrow?
I forgot to make the test!
How do I create my LTP?
1. Create Units
1. Create Units
2. Place SSs into Units
2. Place SSs into Units
UNIT 1: Becoming Biologists
UNIT 1 LENGTH: 2 Weeks
UNIT 2 LEARNING GOALS
TN State Standards:
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Spiraling
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Insert #2
Insert #3
Insert Spiraling Learning
Goal #1 (if applicable)
Goal #2 (if applicable)
Soulsville Standards:
2. Place SSs into Units
3. Check for logical connections
3. Check for logical connections
4. Logically Order Units to Calendar
4. Logically Order Units to Calendar
Backwards Planning
EOC/TCAP/AP/Final

Long Term Plan
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Unit Exam
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Unit Plan
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Daily Lesson Plan
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Student Achievement!
Why is a Unit Plan Important?
 Helps you decide what to teach and how to teach
it.
 Keeps you on pace to reach unit/LT goals.
 Creates opportunities to stimulate student interest
and investment.
Unit
Plan
Vision
Objectives
VValues
Sequencing and
Scheduling
Developing a Unit Vision
 At this stage in your planning process you need to
answer the question, “What would it look like for
my students to master the unit learning goals?”
 Make sure that you can concretely describe in detail
the most important things for your students to
learn, and what it will look like for students to
demonstrate that they have achieved the unit
goals.
Essential Questions
 Essential questions reflect the key inquiries and the
understanding goals of the unit and thus serve to
focus the unit and prioritize learning.
 Enduring understandings is an inference that
students are helped to draw or verify in the unit.
Essential Questions
 SS: Whose story is this? Whose voices aren’t we
hearing?
 Math: How does what we measure influence how
we measure?
 ELA: What is the relationship between fiction and
truth?
 Science: How are structure and function related in
living things?
 Foreign Language: How might the context of a word
help me understand words I do not know?
Enduring Understandings
 Enduring understandings are the specific insights,
inferences, or conclusions about the big idea you
want your students to leave with.
Enduring Understandings
 In a free market economy, price is a function of
supply and demand.
 True friendship is revealed during difficult times,
not happy times.
 Statistical analysis and data display often reveal
patterns that may not be obvious.
 Heating of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere by
the sun drives connection within the atmosphere
and oceans, providing winds and ocean currents.
Which Unit is Fitting?
Goals-Based
Thematic
Project-Based
Translating Standards into Objectives
• Translate learning goals into
measurable, most-important,
made-first, and manageable
lesson objectives.
Creating Objectives
 What are the key nouns, adjectives, and verbs that
describe your learning goals?
 What tasks and understandings are associated with
the learning goals?
 What knowledge and skills will students need in
order to master these goals?
Creating our Soulsville Standards basically did this for
us! *
Exemplar
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Sequence Content and Scaffold
Scheduling Objectives
CALENDAR OF DAILY OBJECTIVES
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August 2012
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
6th
Daily Objective
13th
Daily Objective
7th
Daily Objective
14th
Daily Objective
8th
9th
Friday
10th
Daily Objective
Daily Objective Daily Objective Weekly Quiz
15th
16th
17th
Daily Objective Daily Objective Daily Objective
Weekly Quiz
Self-Assessment
1 MISSION
1 DREAM
1 TEAM
5 CORE
VALUES