The Teacher Clarity Playbook, Grades K-12: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for Organized, Effective Instruction

by Douglas Fisher

Unlock the secrets to student achievement with purposeful learning and clear expectations


On a clear day, you can learn forever— that’s the adapted lyric you’ll be happily humming once you’ve covered this playbook, because you will have mastered using learning intentions and success criteria, the twin engines of Teacher Clarity. This template-filled guide shows you how to own it, do it, and live it—and your students will be more successful as a result.


In this fully revised edition, this succinct, smart, and swift book’s nine learning modules take you systematically through a process that begins and ends with standards. With abundant and all new examples that span grade levels, planning templates for every step, key professional learning questions, new videos, revised success criteria and relevance sections, and the latest research, you have the most practical and up-to-date planner for designing and delivering highly effective



Identifying Concepts and Skills
Sequencing Learning Progressions
Elaborating Learning Intentions
Crafting Success Criteria
Modifying Learning Intentions to Include Language Expectations
Determining the Relevance of the Learning
Designing Assessment Opportunities
Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences
Establishing Mastery of Standards

Designed for PLCs or independent teacher use, The Teacher Clarity Playbook helps practitioners align lessons, objectives, and outcomes of learning seamlessly, so that the classroom hours flow productively for everyone. For any teacher striving to be more organized and have stronger relationships with students, this is the book that shows you how.

208 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 2, 2024

About the author

Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., is an educator and Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College.

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Reviews

[Colin Schindler]

Read this and attended a Professional Development training session. The ideas sounded great and I made the effort to implement the ideas in my classroom. After a month of use it doesn't seem to have made much of a difference to be honest. Although I am very curious if anything will ever be effective in a low-income part of town where the children are all caught in a tragically vicious circle.

[S]

I really like how this book broke the process down. And had guided practice. I wish it had discussed learning progressions in the way I learned them, but otherwise it was great!