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The RISC Model: Standards Based Design

Contents 1 Overview 2 Activities 3 Tools 4 Resources

Overview

Innovative thinking and teaching through relevant standards, an effective balanced instruction, aligned assessments, and meaningful reporting. A system where learning is the constant and time is the variable.

The core beliefs of a standards-based system are often times some of the very same principles you believe are important for increased student achievement. The guiding principles of the Re-Inventing Schools Model are not only central beliefs of organizations implementing the model, but they are supported by research as well.

• • Standards

• • Effective Instruction

• • Multiple Assessments

• • Reporting and Recording

Activities

Tools

Resources

• Quicktime about Standards Based Design in the RISC Model
• Rich DeLorenzo's Standards-Based Design PowerPoint
• BSSD Sample Reporting and Recording Tools (Word Document)