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Grant Wiggins: Understanding by Design Webinar

The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units
Recorded March 10, 2011 - ASCD Webinar archive (59 mins)

Grant Wiggins is the president of Authentic Education in Hopewell, New Jersey, a consulting, research, and publishing organization. He earned an EdD. from Harvard University and a BA from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. Wiggins consults with schools, districts, and state education departments on a variety of reform matters; organizes conferences and workshops; and develops print materials and web resources on curricular change.


Based on the ASCD book, The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units, this webinar focused on how to design units of study using the UbD framework.