How to align resources to standards
Steps for checking that a lesson or resource really supports a standard.
- Start with your state's official standard and read it closely, including any examples.
- Identify the skill or knowledge the standard asks for and the level of thinking it expects.
- Check that the resource's tasks require students to do that skill, not just a related one.
- Look at how learning is assessed: does it show mastery of the standard?
- Record the standard's identifier exactly as your state publishes it.
On Teach This Way!, creators are responsible for checking the standards they list. Our AI tools never invent standard identifiers; when a standard can't be identified reliably, the creator must verify it.