How do you know what your students know and are able to do?

Our work in the classroom is sacred. We plan, organize, write, rewrite, cut, paste, shop, draw, rehearse and finally you walk out  to debut your work with the people who are to gain the most from this work ... the students

You've planned your unit of study. How do you organize this unit into daily chunks of instructional digestable learning meals for your hungry students?

What do the lessons look like? How are they aligned to the CCSS or are they?

Then there's my favorite question...how do you check for understanding? Is there assessment embedded in your lessons? What does that look like? How do you do it and how does it help the students and you the teacher?