Implementation Plan

Project Description

• Participants: Alpha team - 4 core teachers, 1 special educator, 80 6th, 7th & 8th grade students
• Setting: Alpha team
• Timeline for implementing various tasks: This summer for team work, this fall for project implementation
• Our team meets almost daily for common planning time. The hope is to establish the protocol for project implementation over the summer so we are ready for students at the start of the year.
• One idea is to use this tool , or something similar, to determine what projects might look like and the tools and resources necessary to implement:

(Taken from Identifying Authentic Learning Opportunities module)

Opportunities for students to...	What might that look like	What tools or resources are necessary to facilitate this action step
Identify personal, local or global issues to investigate
Take action to address personal, local or global issues
Share their learning with an authentic audience
Integrate personal interests into their plan for learning
Add more components you’d like to address.

Implementation Plan

First (Summer/August with Teachers, September with students):

• Follow an agreed to process for determining Alpha’s Heart/Core Values/Mission
• Possible example

Second: (September)

• Curriculum Process:
• Self and World Questions
• Find commonalities
• (2016-17) - Below are the theme topics for this coming year. Students would match their common questions with the
• Conflict
• Physics
• Changing Life in the US (Industrial Age, Westward Expansion)
• Chemistry
• Share overarching theme idea - at MGI Wendy and I practiced with this idea of Revolution as a possible example. We could model this with students, and stick with this, or have kids use this idea to come up with their own overarching idea.

Third (September and Ongoing)

• Project Based Learning

• Once the overarching idea is in place, we could then begin the process of determining independent projects that reflect the overarching theme, and can be included in their PLP.  There are specific tools from the Teacher Guide to PBL that look promising and can be easily adapted to our team’s needs. Teachers and students generate activities and tasks to meet the theme expectations, with purposeful project plans and systems to

• PLP Goal Setting Process
• Students personal goals could be directly tied to this research project, and/or they could develop other personal goals they want to pursue.