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Sandy Borel: college prep. Sales pitch on 3-5 colleges/universities. What are large items I value in a school? Develop criteria for each item (safety, cost, extra-curriculars, etc). Take criteria and use schools. Could design project to develop criteria. End goal could b a set of criteria as a lens. EVHS has a board of students who come back and speak on schools they've attended.

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Jenny Sorenson: sharing the planet unit. About conflict: social, economic, political. Impactful community event, How can we take action on problems within our community? What does a positive community look like? Who are our financial leaders? Reached out to senator Donovan. Dinner for the community, and how did that impact the community? How can we make that sustainable? you may define the final product during the project. Create parameters, but allow for product to be shaped as students learn. EVHS raised $25,000 for a student in make a wish.

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Skyler McGuire: student- directed learning units. Students choose between softwares. Can create project or choose one. Digital media. Only sees them 5 times every two weeks. Students will create physical production. Students could create digital learning projects for other classes.

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Marie Schroeder: students research buildings, places, museums as if they were a tourist. Peer reviews and critiques and a dilemma protocol. Will have AP peers as authentic audience.

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Tanya Caruso: separation anxiety. Separating mixtures and how it affects your life. Kids will produce a diagram/technical drawing or a model of a separation machine for a particular mixture. Flowcharts, summaries, conclusions, and making connections. Evidence: video report/news report. Katie Lunde has connection to Wolcott landfill.

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Scott Hopkins: design challenge: applying concepts related to force, motion, and energy to a mouse trap car. Work with students' agility and adaptability skills- won't know until day before what characteristics the cars will be evaluated on. Kids will jump in and try it. Needs physical resources. Check out science olympiad? Work with Dave Russell at GCMS. RAFT will have physical resources.

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Stacie LaDuke: ecosystems. kids study 8 different ecosystem in CO. Differentiated groups. Students choose species they will become. DQ: How do I affect the ecosystem (as my adopted species). create food web within ecosystem. Student choice in product, will be some sort of written piece. Student has a model of the species as well.

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Katie Lunde: sustainable energy project. Summative assessment: build solar car prototypes. What are consequences of utilizing renewable and non renewable energy? Problem solving, Critical thinking, and design process.

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Michelle Vasquez: reconstruction. Comparing social programs past and present. Kids will create PSA or newscast. Think about using we video? How to address this considering how politically charged these concepts are? Support in: tasks and evidence, fishbowl, socratic seminar, etc.

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Tasha Queen: creating business plan for a restaurant to be pitched on kickstarter or shark tank. How do governments impact economies? Summative: presentation. research, collaboration (small groups). authentic audience (find local entrepreneurs. Follow up on bringing in authentic audience for feedback throughout)

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Teacher Evaluation does not meet with what we are... "strategic plan" - How do these mesh?
(especially as relates to focus on test scores)

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At the lower grade levels students need to be taught the process of how you tackle a project similar to the scientific process.

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Why during PLC could I not work out with whom I want to plan a project?

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We need to become a manager of learning rather than a deliverer of knowledge

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If students are are doing projects in multiple subject areas, kids are going to get weary of working on so many projects.

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Teachers need planning periods to be successful with where we are headed.

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How does differentiation of the tasks, resources, rubrics happen? Can we upload a googledoc that is differentiated to Foundry, or does this need to live in schoology?

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Projects are everywhere. We can teach kids to look at the world through the lens of curiosity and empowerment. Lots of great, student-driven projects could come out of this way of thinking

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How can we translate these Foundry notes and recommendations to real-world contexts like college admissions or job applications?

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Organization
Get everything in one place so it’s easy to track

More structure and consistency
Organization and flow within a timeline

Process and Communication

Being able to offer differentiation and scaffolding
Student agency and knowing when they need support- create bank of scaffolding they can opt into or out of
Organizing huge projects into parts, help students recognize when they hit a checkpoint

Clarity around end goals
Put value on the process versus the end product

Aligns our expectations with student expectations- demystify expectations
Make assessments more meaningful
Transparency around growth for students and parents

Student Agency

Student goal-setting/student agency
Student independence around tracking

Student-led calendars

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How to find authentic audiences?

Lean on expertise in room, what kind of time do we need to make this sustainable?

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Goal to move toward mastery learning that spirals back on itself. Students are never "done"

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How developmentally-friendly is this for young kids? How can we make this useful for them?
We could make images/simplified home pages, and scaffolded language for early learners.

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How can we make:

Common Core

BIE

Global Ready Skills

State Standards

ETC

Student friendly?