1. Project Based Learning
How and Why!

2. The Project Process - How we manage learning
Complete a brainstorming sheet (solo, with an advisor, or with a parent)
Choose your project evidence
Write a project proposal on Project Foundry and get it approved by your advisor
Start work on your project!
Complete task list in Project Foundry
Record your time logs each day
Your advisor checks in on tasks/deadlines and request pieces of evidence along the way
Write a project reflection
Submit your project to your advisor. (At this time it may be returned to you for revision.) Be sure to include:
Project evidence (final product)
Reflection
Works Cited
Meet to finalize the project with proposal team
Advisors ask questions about your learning
You and the advisors review time logs and discuss the amount of credit you’ve earned
Write thank you notes for community experts you consulted with during the project

3. Brainstorming
Students work with an advisor to take their ideas and formulate driving questions, resources, and possible products

4. Project Evidence Strive for authentic products
Personalized to each student
Encourage students to learn new skills

5. Project Proposal Project Foundry Documents: Purpose Driving Questions
Resources
Learning Targets
Tasks and a schedule to complete your project

6. Learning Targets
Learning targets are tied directly to Minnesota State Standards in each subject just as curriculum is in a traditional school.

7. Project Foundry to Manage Daily Work

8. Reflection
“We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.”
― John Dewey
How did you learn doing this project (by doing, book research, attending a class, apprentice)?
How were you affected doing this project?
Did you learn things you didn’t expect to learn doing this project?
What could you have done differently?
What did you do well?

9. Personal Learning Plan

10. How Students Earn Credit
160 Hours = 1 Credit
Credits are required across core subjects and electives to meet or exceed state requirements
Personalized Projects
Driven by student interest
Seminars
Led by an Advisor
Taught with a focus on Project Based Learning
Hands on!

11. How Students Earn Credit
Lifelong Learning
Experience Friday
Field Trips
Authentic Experiences
Internships
Community Service

12. The Many Ways We Learn
Cooking
Interning
Drawing
Drawing

13. Making beautiful work in beautiful places

14. Exploring in Seminars

15. Playing an active role in the school

16. Falling Down
Getting Up

17. Wilderness Trips

18. The Outcome
Develop close relationships with Advisors, Staff, and Peers
Mastery of “real-world” skills
A sense of belonging in the community
Become a lifelong learner