Sharing our PBL goals and plan for data/evidence to gather: by Sara Berger

2025-01-27 16:24:03 UTC

It's working!

2025-01-27 16:25:29 UTC

Katya + Jojo want to routinize students answering our unit's essential questions and support them in deepening their responses. We're going to use the 3,2,1 bridge protocol where students are given the same activity at the start of a unit and end of the unit, and reflect on how their answer to the EQ has changed. We will also incorporate sentence stems throughout the unit to help them add complexity to their responses!

swoods63 — 2025-01-27 16:26:26 UTC

Our group discussed using weekly or milestone timed reflections/surveys about their learning growth, challenges and teacher/lesson feedback.

sberger11_1 — 2025-01-27 16:28:02 UTC

routine check ins with students on engagement and interest to increase students' knowledge and connection to authenticity. we will be conducting milestone reflections.

qcosentino — 2025-01-27 16:28:36 UTC

My PBL goal is to empower students to advocate for themselves and what they want their final product to be for their ELA project. They already have choice and voice in the options presented, but I plan to conference with all my focus students and reflect on what scaffolds have worked best for them so that I can differentiate their projects with their suggestions and feedback. I will gather evidence in my conferences and a final reflection survey on the project. I will also evaluate my focus students on their milestone projects to assess that my differentiations are working for them.

2025-01-27 16:32:00 UTC

My PBL goal is to increase the percentage of Students with Disabilities achieving higher passing grades and producing more rubric-aligned, high-quality work through structured inquiry-based learning. I will implement a Quality Checker role to ensure work aligns with the rubric and use data-driven reflection by collecting individual and group rubric scores from assessments to support sustained inquiry and growth.

emills4_10 — 2025-01-27 16:32:16 UTC

Chandra, Emmalee, and Keisha will be starting learning logs in our classes and each week, there will be a routine time where students will have opportunities to do some research, answer their questions, and generate more questions.

2025-01-27 16:32:17 UTC

Engaging students in deeper class discussions. Developing routines for classroom discussions centered around small groups that are peer evaluated.

agordon204 — 2025-01-27 16:32:40 UTC

My PBL goal: creating student projects/products with “authentic context, involves real-world tasks, tools, and quality standards, and speaks to students’ personal concerns…” (from rubric)

2025-01-27 16:33:50 UTC

Having real world projects that students can connect with and relate to their lives such as their neighborhoods. Generating more questions

2025-01-27 16:37:01 UTC

My PBL Goal was to encourage students to create their own questions (not just a yes or no question) to present to other students. This would help students not only refer back to their overarching question, but only build on another goal of sustained inquiry.

vreel1 — 2025-01-27 16:44:27 UTC

To scaffold student learning by creating understanding as a small group or a whole class enabling students to access content knowledge and skill and build upon each other’s ideas, questions.

2025-01-27 16:50:26 UTC

I am looking forward to utilizing our first experiment which is the concept maps in my next unit.

2025-01-27 17:03:09 UTC

My goal for sustained inquiry: to design and use a reflection routine for my ENL students, to help them identify their strengths and goals, and increase engagement.

My hope is to conference with them regularly (and peer conferencing?) to share their reflection rubrics and take ownership of the process. The inquiry will involve examining the impact of the routine over time and also the design of the tool itself. I have a draft of the tool but am eager to modify it as time passes, and as I see more and more other examples.