The often lamented and laughed about classic scene around the dinner table after a long day of school goes something like this: Adult: What did you learn at school today? Student: Nothing The scene is short and not likely to win an Oscar but makes a compelling point. While the dinner table has changed a great deal over the years, the question remains important. Do our students know what they learned at school today and are just cleverly veiling it from the adults in their lives? Or, is there insufficient articulation and clarity around what students should be learning? My guess is, students would love to discontinue the back-and-forth dinner time interrogation by having a clear answer about what they learned. Teacher clarity has a .75 effect size on John Hattie's visible learning scale. This means that when both the teacher and student have a clear and shared understanding, the learning almost doubles. As teachers, of course, we believe we have been very clear about what we ...