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Congratulations to the FriendLink (Andi, Allie, and Sadie) and the Art Challenge Incorporated (Emma, Autumn, Jillian, and Tori) teams for making top 5 and advancing to the finals!

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Writing their pitch for the Friday Art Challenge!

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Writing their pitch for the Champions of Character!

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Working on their pitch for the FriendLink!

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We pitched our ideas to BizStream, our community partner.

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Mrs. Harlow, our school social worker, listened to our pitches and provided feedback.

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Students reflected in their journals and then met in their teams to discuss the compass point prompts regarding their idea.

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We used the Creative DNA protocol to determine where our team strengths are. We have a strong group of presenters and brainstormers!

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Students divided into their teams and worked on creating a visual to use when pitching their initial ideas at BizStream.

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We discussed our 100 ideas and extended the ideas in our group discussion.  We jotted notes in our journals before beginning Crazy 8s. 

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Brainstorming ideas using Crazy 8s protocol

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We brainstormed different areas of our school (classroom, lunchroom, playground, library, etc.). We then wrote things that “bug” us about those places or times of our school day.

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Finding our partners by figuring out who has the same color dot on our foreheads (without talking!)

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Creating empathy maps for one of our stakeholders

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Interviewing a high schooler

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We discovered that we all are connected in some way and have a lot in common!

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Interviewing the high school Academy team

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“Posting” our 100 ideas!

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We brainstormed all our fears and then wrote our hopes on notecards. We used the notecards to see how tall we could build a tower!

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Our initial 100+ ideas!

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Team Oakwood!

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Allendale high school Fall Academy group

Bizstream

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How might we improve social connections within our school to support wellbeing and a sense of belonging?

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"This project was hard, but I created it to help people, so I persevered through it!" ~Andi

"I enjoyed working as a team and creating our poster!" ~Sadie

" I enjoyed going through the design process to come up with an idea to help other people. I learned the importance of having empathy." ~Allie

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Show through pictures, videos, examples of student work, links to reflect how your students built empathy, determined Need to Knows, and uncovered important information to solve their driving question.