In Understanding by Design authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe offer a framework for curriculum design based on “backward design.” They make a case for making understanding an important teaching goal and guide educators in creating a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance. This new edition offers explores in greater depth the meaning of key ideas such as essential questions and transfer tasks and offers arrays of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas. The book also demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum.