Ideas, insights, and inspiration from the
Authentic Education Team

If we're intentional about our read-aloud choices, we can maintain this time as one of both a regenerative calm period and as a tool for intentional learning.
By integrating the UbD model into your curriculum, and applying it to field trips, both student success and logistical ease can be accomplished.
UbD Gardening
Developing nature-based curricula through the UbD framework takes outdoor learning from an exciting bonus to a meaningful practice.
How can we apply an Understanding by Design mindset to lunch? Social connections are integral to development and a huge part of the learning that takes place within the school day.
Despite questions on homework 1 thing is certain: it must be structured with the same intention as classroom learning (in our case, UbD) if it's to be of value.
Resolutions provide a perfect model to bring reflection into the classroom through the backwards-planning framework of Understanding by Design (UbD).
Frameworks like UbD and PBL have been instrumental in shifting ways in which we organically incorporate assessments and feedback.
Students engage more and are more motivated when they realize their impact on the world through direct community involvement.
We created a timeline that would guide how students would learn about games, collect data for their own prototype, build it, revise it, and present it.
UbD helps us think beyond test scores and memorization to better support students develop thinking and questioning skills that will benefit them in the future.