Coherence Gap Spreadsheet

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The Coherence Map from Student Achievement Partners is one of the most powerful tools a math teacher can use to better understand their academic standards and how they form coherent progressions of learning over time. But one thing the coherence map doesn't do is give the user any indication of how many lessons or how many hours it takes for students to learn the content described by each standard.

In a perfect world, teachers and students would have all the time necessary to reach all the goals described by the standards. In reality, this rarely happens—students have absences, explanations get rushed, homework goes unfinished, and severe weather and pandemics can close school buildings entirely. This is when having instructional time estimates for each standard can be useful, both for future curriculum planning or understanding the potential consequences of instruction already lost.

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