Powerful Projects

What has to change?

What stays the same?

Direct experience

Simulated experience

Vicarious experience

Instruction

Patterson et al., 2007

Used to stop here:

Used to stop here:

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

ASSEMBLY ASSEMBLY ASSEMBLY ASSEMBLY ASSEMBLY

1 (A)

ADVISORY(D)

Block 1

(8:15-10:00)

(E)

(G)

Block 3

(8:15-10:00)

(F)

(F) 8:25 - 9:05

Core F(E)

Core E

2 (B) FL/ArtsFL: Fr, Sp, SS, SS

Music: Band

(G) 9:10 - 9:50

Core G

(D)

Core D

10:00 - 10:15 BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK

310:15 - 11:00

(C) FL/ArtsFL: Sp, Sp, Lt

Music: Band, Str

Full Team Mtg

(F)

Block 2

(10:15-12:00)

(G)

(E)

Block 4

(10:15-12:00)

(D)

(A)

ADVISORY(C) FL/Arts

FL: Sp, Sp, Lt

Music: Bnd,Str / Chor

411:05 - 11:50

(D)

Core D

(B) 10:50-11:30

FL/ArtsFL: Fr, Sp, SS, SS

Music: Chorus

(B) FL/ArtsFL: Fr, Sp, SS, SS

Music: Bnd / Chor

11:50 - 12:40 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH ACTIVITY

LUNCH

LUNCH

512:40 - 1:25

(E)

Core E

(A)

PE(Possible team time for all

but Willis)

(C) FL/ArtsFL: Sp, Sp, Lt

Music: Band, Str

Full Team Mtg

(C) 12:55-1:35

FL/ArtsFL: Sp, Sp, Lt

Music: Chorus

(A)

PEFull Team Mtg

6 (F)

Core F

(B) FL/ArtsFL: Fr, Sp, SS, SS

Music: Chorus

(B) FL/ArtsFL: Fr, Sp, SS, SS

Music: Band

(D)

Core D

(G)

Core G

7 (G)

Core G

(C) FL/ArtsFL: Sp, Sp, Lt

Music: Chorus

(A)

PE(Possible team time for all

but Willis)

(E) 2:25 - 3:05

Core E

(F)

Core F

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Fewer grades

Divergence of products

Differentiation

More teacher work in planning

Less large group instruction

FLOW!

You can add in grades for accountability steps.

Process grades matter

Reflective component

Be wary of letting much work happen at home with younger students.

Follow the athletic coach’s model.

Allow students to struggle.

Give choices

For good teachers, it is a different kind of work.

Project design is creative and collaborative.

Teachers need to show students their thinking process.

Sift through massive amounts of information and make meaning from it

Connect globally

Self-directed

HabitatFeaturesFoodBehavior

Create a new species of bird.

Use a GPS to walk the fronts of a battle of the American Revolution

1:1 allows feedback to the process (Elizabeth Helfant)

Anderson and Krathwohl, 2001