Backwards Design Secrets Wiggins Forgot to Mention (Full FREE course)

After 18 years of teaching English, I finally figured out what's missing from backwards design.
It's not the standards. It's not the assessment. It's not the activities.

It's what students need IN THEIR HEADS before any of that works.

This free 2-hour course teaches the schema-building system I wish someone had taught me in year one. You'll learn why students struggle, how to diagnose what's actually missing, and how to design units that build real understanding instead of coverage.

What you'll learn:
-The three types of schema (and why mixing them up ruins your unit)
-The dependency principle that makes every lesson load-bearing
-Why "let them figure it out" fails without the right foundation
-How to separate reading, writing, and thinking (they're not the same)
-How to find the question that makes your unit worth teaching
-How to design for schema and not just activities

This isn't about flipping your classroom (though it works beautifully with that). It's about what goes in students' heads—and in what order—so they can actually do the thinking you're asking for.
Apply every concept to YOUR unit as you watch.

Get the FREE Course Workbook: https://pages.englishclassroomarchite...

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