I choose to attend a faculty meeting at Jefferson Elementary School on February 11, 2015. The meeting was held in the school’s cafeteria. The meeting was about 45 minutes long. The principle, Annette Beckwith was the person in charge of the meeting and did most of the speaking. The attendees were all of the lead teachers at the school and a special guest speaker, Michael Miller, who is the head of the Jefferson Board of Education. There were many topics covered in the meeting. One of the topics was priority standards. “What we want them to learn?” Teachers are preparing the students for the next grade level, district, state, and national assessments and more importantly, for life. Teachers are designing their lessons to teach the skills and knowledge that students need to master the priority standards. Students are graded through assessments of their skills and knowledge in each priority standard. The criteria used to identify the most essential priority standards include the following. Endurance: standards that provide students with knowledge and skills beyond a single test date. Leverage: standards that provide knowledge and skills that will be valuable in multiple disciplines or content areas. Readiness: standards that provide knowledge and skills for success in the next grade or level of instruction. Another topic covered in the meeting was depth of knowledge (DOK). Number one, recall and reproduction. Can the student recall a simple fact from the story? Requires a shallow understanding and no analysis. Number two, skills and concepts. Can the student think beyond recalling facts? Students may be asked to interpret, infer, classify, and categorize, compare and contrast and determine whether facts or opinion, predict, determine cause and effect, apply, reconstruct or sequence a story. Number three, strategic thinking. Can the student think beyond the