College Readiness Checklist, by David Conley

This book provides checklists for what students need to know, generally and specifically, in each content area before s/he goes to college. Too often, students go to college and have to take remedial classes. This creates a lot of issues when it comes to graduation requirements, loans, and work schedules. Using these checklists can be a great resource for thinking about backwards planning on a vertical level. If you teach 5th grade, then it may be useful to think about what you are doing in your classroom to help prepare your students to master the items on the checklist by the time they are in 12th grade.