Grade 2 Math Essential Standards Learning Targets. CCSS Learning Targets—The main goal of learning targets is to impact students. They represent unpacked standards, written in student-friendly language, visible in the classroom walls, in your lesson plans, rubrics, and assessments. As you write learning targets and use them in your classroom, you are giving students a clear vision of the learning path ahead of them, including content they’ll be responsible for knowing, the skills they will have