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Making our goals clear is important for our communication with our students and their ownership of their own learning. How do we know our goals are appropriate for our grade level and content area? Collaborate with colleagues to answer this question. Powerful processes for teacher teams include all of the following:

 Unpack grade-level content standards to identify the most essential concepts and skills, and design tasks you can use to have students learn and demonstrate success with those concepts and skills.

 Co-create or choose together exemplars of what success looks like for conversations (video exemplar or transcript) and written tasks.

 Co-create a rubric of success criteria to measure success with the task.

 Collaborate to calibrate your scoring of student work (or conversation videos or transcripts) with the rubric. Flip to pages 132–134 for a great protocol to use with colleagues and with students to calibrate your expectations.

Collaborating to make expectations visible and calibrate how you score the same work sample is powerful professional learning that makes your job easier. When we work alone, it is hard to make high expectations a reality. When we work together, we help one another raise the bar in tangible, relevant ways connected to what we teach every day.