ABSTRACT
The teacher needs to pull off onto a shoulder along the road with a longer classroom routine to provide more time to think about student responses. The thinking routine, Clarity, Access, Rigor, and Relevance (CARR) Check, helps teachers identify problems as they appear on the dashboard while teaching or planning lessons. Teachers may focus on increasing CARR one goal at a time. Student responses may be evaluated for clarity of the task or access to the task in one review. The Clarity Planner makes it possible to see the core measures of learning for a unit on one page and is used by teachers to plan, reflect, and revise the variety of assessments, and learning goal/assessment, match and the feedback cycle for a unit of study. A CARR Check helps teachers identify a specific problem that students are experiencing, rather than making a task easier or harder and hoping this change helps students.
