Guidance documents on priority standards
Guiding documents on priority standards:
Achieve the Core Major Focus Document
The document is pre-pandemic and identifies the major math clusters for each grade level. This is math only. [view]
2020-2021 Priority Instructional Content in ELA and Mathematics
These documents name instructional content priorities in mathematics (K–8, high school) and ELA/literacy (K–12). These were developed for the 2020–21 academic year in response to the disruption of the global pandemic of COVID-19 and will be used to inform how to gradually phase standards in during the return to normal. [view]
Addressing Unfinished Learning After COVID-19 School Closures
This is an instructional framework for addressing unfinished learning and learning losses, as well as a review of essential skills and content in English language arts and mathematics to support access to grade-level content in key grade transitions for all students. [view]
Achievement Network: Important Prerequisite Math Standards
This resource demonstrates that students who were impacted
by interruptions to teaching and learning and subsequent learning losses are still able to access most grade-level standards this year without prior review, and that missed content can usually be integrated in a minimally-invasive way. It helps teachers
understand which current-year content is more essential than others and how to address the prerequisite content necessary for accessing the current-year content. [view]