ASCD Educational Leadership  |  September 2020 (Volume 78, Number 1)  |  By Jay McTighe, Harvey F. Silver 

Do you want to promote deep and lasting learning? Of course you do. All educators want their students to learn deeply and well. And yet evidence shows that such learning is rare in many schools. To help close the gap between aspiration and common practice, let’s explore four key questions about deeper learning and how it really happens in classrooms.