The Success Criteria Playbook
A Hands-On Guide to Making Learning Visible and Measurable
- John Almarode - James Madison University, USA
- Douglas Fisher - San Diego State University, USA
- Kateri Thunder
- Nancy Frey - San Diego State University, USA
Sketchnotes by Taryl Hansen
What does success look like for your students? How will they know if they have learned? This essential component of teaching and learning can be difficult to articulate but is vital to achievement for both teachers and students.
The Success Criteria Playbook catapults teachers beyond learning intentions to define clearly what success looks like for every student—whether face-to-face or in a remote learning environment. Designed to be used collaboratively in grade-level, subject area teams—or even on your own—the step-by-step playbook expands teacher understanding of how success criteria can be utilized to maximize student learning and better engage learners in monitoring and evaluating their own progress. Each module is designed to support the creation and immediate implementation of high-quality, high impact success criteria and includes:
• Templates that allow for guided and independent study for teachers.
• Extensive STEM-focused examples from across the K-12 STEM curriculum to guide teacher learning and practice.
• Examples of success criteria applied across learning domains and grades, including high school content, skills, practices, dispositions, and understandings.
Ensure equity of access to learning and opportunity for all students by designing and employing high-quality, high-impact success criteria that connect learners to a shared understanding of what success looks like for any given learning intention.
Free resources
Success Criteria: An Essential (and often underutilized) Component of Teacher Clarity
Co-author of The Success Criteria Playbook John Almarode shares how expanding our perspective on what success criteria are and how we create and communicate them in our classrooms will have a noticeable effect on how our learners engage in the learning.
Developing & Using Success Criteria to Maximize Teaching and Learning
Whether face-to-face, hybrid, or at a distance, this webinar will introduce how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality success criteria, based on The Success Criteria Playbook.
3Ps in a Pod Podcast: The Success Criteria Playbook
Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey, two of the authors of The Success Criteria Playbook, discuss how to use success criteria in your classroom and understand how success criteria advances your students’ learning, on the 3Ps in a Pod podcast.
Success Criteria and Teacher Clarity Ensuring Equity of Access and Success for ALL Students
In this webinar series, we will move beyond just learning intentions and take a deep-dive into how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality Success Criteria.
The Purpose of this Playbook
Please enjoy this complimentary excerpt on The Purpose of this Playbook. You’ll discover an overview of the Playbook modules and why this work is essential to your PLC+s.
