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PBL Development Meeting  March 30, 2009

Please bring your planbooks or calendars and laptops

Notes from the March 3 meeting (below the video). Thanks, Kim Sullivan!

By this time folks have had a chance to think and talk about “right sized” projects. We will enter into a design phase with projects ideas, and create a draft of a PROJECT SKETCH. A project sketch is a short description that gets at the essential knowledge, skills and dispositions at the heart of the project. We'll go into a “critical friends” review and then refine project sketches. Depending on how far we get, teams will begin to plan more operationally, using a "backward design" process based on the question: "What would success look like?"

Agenda

1.  Check in - Ideas bubbling up? Concerns?

2.  Update and Agenda Review

3.  More Assumptions about Projects

• Involve cross-school collaboration
• Each project contributes to collective sense of community identity and school climate
• Partnerships based on age appropriateness, project scope (time, complexity), interest. NOT "I prefer to work with ___."
• Planning is collaborative, supported, and transparent (use the wiki)
• Some aspect of student choice/expression evident in the plan
• Duration is 1-3 weeks, complete by (event date) <--- (choose)

4. How these projects may differ from later ones

• Focus more on community building goals than academic goals
• Involves a less-formal design process (sketch v. backward design)
• Provide practice in project-doing, for teachers, kids, and parents

5. Shared messaging: What do we want all kids, parents to know? (delegate talking points)

6. WIKITIME ~ Generate project ideas. Write as brief project sketches. Include success metric.

7. Browse project sketches, comment on each others.

8. Discussion: Getting Minds Ready.

9. Next Steps