The first teams of teachers involved in this process worked with an education consultant during unit development.  The principle role of the consultant was to be an outsider, able to ask, "What about this?" and "Have you thought about that?"  Because teams using this website have no consultant, there are Reflect  buttons along the way to take the place of an external person asking questions.  These are important because they help the team move steadily ahead rather than plow ahead.  The various questions found at Reflect keep the sequence of events like this:

                READY -   AIM  -   FIRE!

Instead of this:

                FIRE! -  READY  -  AIM

For this first Reflection,  please consider the following:

                Is the timing right for your unit development work?  Is this the best time of year?
                Has the team as a whole or individually taken time to browse around in this website?
                Are all members willing to commit time and energy to planning?  And to follow criteria and guidelines specified in this website?