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Authentic Education Team
By integrating the UbD model into your curriculum, and applying it to field trips, both student success and logistical ease can be accomplished.
Register now to expand your thinking about best practices for including underrepresented voices, untold stories, and broader perspectives into your curriculum.
Registration is now open for AE's Summer 2026 professional development UbD workshops. Early bird and group discounted registration rates are available.
Practical considerations for helping students understand how AI works and ethical considerations for this technology and leveraging it to level up my classroom.
Resolutions provide a perfect model to bring reflection into the classroom through the backwards-planning framework of Understanding by Design (UbD).
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.
Essential questions are the overarching questions that provoke thought and lead students to inquiry, meaning making and finally transfer, while understandings are the concepts and skills that students will use to be able to gain and draw inferences, make connections and apply the learning to new situations
There was one clear Enduring Understanding from our experience: Intellectual understanding is impossible without openness to cultural & social understanding.
What is an Essential Question? An Essential Question is–well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter–the essence of the issue.
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