Skills (How will my instruction build
Identity (How will my instruction help
students’ skills for the content area?)
What are the standards being addressed in
this lesson?
What are students expected to be able to
do with their learning?
Standards
Objectives:
Follow the same format for each
lesson:
·SWBAT (write, define, extract, etc.)
·Student-Facing Questions (How can I…)
·“I can” statements
·Performance based objectives
(Students will…in order to…)
Intellectualism (How will my instruction build
students’ knowledge and mental powers?)
What are students using to ground/deepen their
learning? (Ex. Topic, question, issue, etc.)
What are students working with to attain their skills
and meet the objective?
How are students deepening their learning around
the topic through different
voices/perspectives/formulas/etc.
Does the end product allow students to demonstrate
their learning and understanding in different ways
and from different perspectives?
Part of this is differentiation
Layered texts as a means of supporting different
modalities and promoting understanding and critical
thinking
. § Audio (Podcasts, NPR, Etc.)
§ Video (TedTalks, YouTube, Etc.
§ Images (Infographics, DBQ’s, Graphs, Etc.)
§ Text (Articles, Excerpts, etc.)
Joy: (How am I providing opportunity for my students to celebrate their own beauty, power, or
experiences?)
students to learn something about
themselves and others?)
Are the opportunities for students to see
themselves in the work?
Does the objective or essential question allow
for a personal connection to the material?
Is there a missed opportunity to acknowledge
culture and experiences of students or other
students?
Can you learn anything about your students
from this lesson/unit? If not, where can you
provide that opportunity?
Is there an opportunity to learn about and
become fluent in the experiences of others?
Criticality (How will my instruction engage
students’ thinking about power and equity
and the disruption of oppression?)
Are students learning about and challenging
the societal “norms” or understandings of
the topic you are teaching?
Do students have the opportunity to engage
in refuting a bias they have or know exists in
their society?
Are students being asked to think about
their own identity and where it connects in
the larger social strata?
Does the lesson offer the opportunity for
students to differentiate between facts and
perceptions?
Is there an evaluation/use of marginalized
voices and those that might have silenced
them?
 Lesson Plan
Modeled after Cultivating Genius by Dr.Gholdy Muhammad

Grade: Subject: Date:

Theme/Topic:

Skills
Content Standards:

Knowing Every Student Well Intellectualism Part I:

What are the IDENTITIES of your students?
What are their learning needs?
What prior learrning do they bring?
Layered Texts:
Audio ____________________________
Video ____________________________
Images ___________________________
Texts/Reading ____________________

Other Resources for Learning Used to

address student needs and differentiation:

Objectives:
How are students expected to demonstrate their learning? What questions and content will they grapple with to do
so?
 Preview/Opening Credits: Learning Opportunities
How will you introduce the theme/skill to your learners?
What are potential misunderstandings? How will you leverage
these to deepen understanding?

Intellectualism Part II (Mini-Lesson)

Connect SKILL to Theme/Topic (Show HOW to do skill and promote thinkng around theme)

Vocabulary &
Integration:

Criticality/Identity (Independent Practice)

Students compare, evaluate, perspectives, voices, experiences; develop understanding

Assessment
How will you know when students have attained the skill AND grasped the challenges around the theme?
 Intentionality &
Reflection
After executing your lesson, which of After executing the lesson, which
the pillars did you include and execute pillar do you want to strengthen?
well? Provide evidence Why? How will you work toward
this?

Students to support next lesson:

What did your informal data show? What specific supports will you offer?

JOY and Affirmation in your practice

What aspects of your lesson in general went well today? What can you celebrate?