In order to score well on edTPA, you MUST follow the rubrics. If you can provide the explicit evidence the rubrics require in your responses to the commentaries, you can almost guarantee your scores. edTPA gives you all of this information in a 40+ page Rubric Level Progressions document (content specific) that provides specific examples of what is needed to score each level on each of the 15 rubrics. No wonder no one takes the time to go through these! How time consuming! But that is what I hav