Stop Checking the Box: Making Learning Targets Actually Work

from Unpacking the Backpack · host Eric Sheninger

This episode exposes how learning targets have been reduced to performative compliance rituals and empty whiteboard wallpaper for administrative checklists. Drawing on cognitive science and educational research, it explains how educators can move beyond copy-pasting state standards by truly unpacking them into actionable daily goals. Listeners will discover how properly crafted targets streamline teacher planning and assessment while giving students the clarity, agency, and metacognitive tools they need to take ownership of their own success.

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