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So far in our July-August series on curriculum development, we've laid out some best practices and then elaborated on the first one, backwards design. In this week's feature article we introduce a helpful tool that will help in developing good performance objectives (something we'll explore more next week), align with national standards, prioritize communication of meaning over grammatical patterns, and incorporate goal setting, learner reflection, and proficiency-oriented feedback: the NCSSFL-ACTFL Global Can-Do Benchmarks. We will explore to to use these benchmarks more in coming Topic of the Week articles and Activities of the Week.