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Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum

Deconstruction Work Day

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Longview Public Schools

December 2025

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About Us...

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Check ins

Discuss your favorite podcast or whatever you listen to in your car!

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  • Build shared understanding of what guaranteed and viable curriculum is and why it is needed.
  • Continue the implementation plan to move towards a guaranteed and viable curriculum in math.
  • Provide a guided practice to deconstruct priority standards.
  • Provide an opportunity for asking and answering questions.

OBJECTIVES FOR THE DAY

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Let’s Pause Here...

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Things We Often Hear:

Don’t we have that?

It says Common Core…

We finally have adopted materials…

Why can’t we just follow them?

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State: Alignment is just one of many criteria

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Publisher: Submits their correlation

Reviewers: Perform spot checks in materials

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Roadmaps to Learning

Common Core State Standards

Identify desired results

(Targets)

Determine acceptable evidence (Assessment)

Plan learning experiences and instruction (Strategies and Lessons)

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Some Light Reading

https://corwin-connect.com/2017/10/teacher-clarity-collective-teacher-efficacy/

As, you read the article, choose a word, phrase and sentence that stands out to you.

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Share what you chose with your table and decide on a word, phrase and sentence to share out to the whole group!

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Teacher clarity starts with understanding the

standards . . . TOGETHER!

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What is Deconstruction?

The process teams engage in to build clarity about the standard through collaboration by breaking it down into student-friendly learning targets.

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Deconstruction

  • List the nouns and the verbs of the standard.
  • Define any of those terms that you need a student. friendly definition for or you need clarity on as a team.
  • Create learning targets in student friendly language.
  • Put them in the order you would teach them.
  • You can use AI to help you with this task.

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Let’s Practice

Let’s Practice

Priority Standard:

Nouns (define as needed):

Verbs (define as needed):

Student Friendly Learning Targets:

A.CED.A.2 Flexibly, efficiently, and accurately create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities; graph equations on coordinate axes with labels and scales.

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Let’s Practice

Let’s Practice

Priority Standard:

Nouns (define as needed):

Verbs (define as needed):

Student Friendly Learning Targets:

A.CED.A.2 Flexibly, efficiently, and accurately create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities; graph equations on coordinate axes with labels and scales.

Equations

Variables

Relationships

Quantities

Coordinate axis

Labels

Scales

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Let’s Practice

Let’s Practice

Priority Standard:

Nouns (define as needed):

Verbs (define as needed):

Student Friendly Learning Targets:

A.CED.A.2 Flexibly, efficiently, and accurately create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities; graph equations on coordinate axes with labels and scales.

Equations

Variables

Relationships

Quantities

Coordinate axis: the horizontal (x) and vertical (y) lines that form a grid

Labels

Scales: the number markings on each axis that show value at different points

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Let’s Practice

Let’s Practice

Priority Standard:

Nouns (define as needed):

Verbs (define as needed):

Student Friendly Learning Targets:

A.CED.A.2 Flexibly, efficiently, and accurately create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities; graph equations on coordinate axes with labels and scales.

Equations

Variables

Relationships

Quantities

Coordinate axis: the horizontal (x) and vertical (y) lines that form a grid

Labels

Scales: the number markings on each axis that show value at different points

Create

Represent

Graph

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Let’s Practice

Let’s Practice

Priority Standard:

Nouns (define as needed):

Verbs (define as needed):

Student Friendly Learning Targets:

A.CED.A.2 Flexibly, efficiently, and accurately create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities; graph equations on coordinate axes with labels and scales.

Equations

Variables

Relationships

Quantities

Coordinate axis: the horizontal (x) and vertical (y) lines that form a grid

Labels

Scales: the number markings on each axis that show value at different points

Create

Represent

Graph

  • I can write equations using two or more variables to show how different quantities relate to each other.
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Your turn! What Else?

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Let’s Practice

Let’s Practice

Priority Standard:

Nouns (define as needed):

Verbs (define as needed):

Student Friendly Learning Targets:

A.CED.A.2 Flexibly, efficiently, and accurately create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities; graph equations on coordinate axes with labels and scales.

Equations

Variables

Relationships

Quantities

Coordinate axis: the horizontal (x) and vertical (y) lines that form a grid

Labels

Scales: the number markings on each axis that show value at different points

Create

Represent

Graph

  • I can write equations using two or more variables to show how different quantities relate to each other.
  • I can plot equations with two or more variables on a coordinate plane.
  • I can use appropriate labels and scales on coordinate axes when graphing equations.
  • I can efficiently move from writing equations to graphing them on the coordinate plane

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Remember the Plan...

Including any potential pilot materials!

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Check Yourself

Don’t burn out… you can use your resources to see if you missed anything.

Make sure the full standard is covered!

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AI Tools

Many many Generative AI tools are emerging!

Pros: Efficiency with time

Cons: Bias and lack of context

Some tools:

ChatGPT, Magic School AI, Colleague AI

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Google Chaos

The deconstructing template is a scaffold for breaking down the standard into student friendly learning targets.

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https://bit.ly/LongviewDeconstruction

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Work Time Warnings!

Watch out for these common obstacles...

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Deconstruction

  • List the nouns and the verbs of the standard.
  • Define any of those terms that you need a student friendly definition for and/or you need clarity on as a team.
  • Create learning targets in student friendly language.
  • Put them in the order you would teach them.
  • You can use AI to help you with this task.

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Next Steps

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Objectives and Feedback

  • Build shared understanding of what guaranteed and viable curriculum is and why it is needed.
  • Continue the implementation plan to move towards a guaranteed and viable curriculum in math.
  • Provide a guided practice to deconstruct priority standards.
  • Provide an opportunity for asking and answering questions.