The Project Process

1. Student prepares 5 minute pitch (alone or with advisor)
2. Student presents pitch to advisor and then brainstorms and refines project, develops rubric, and gets approval to begin
3. Student completes a project proposal(advisor is most often working with student on this)

• Gather resources
• Do preliminary research
• Find an expert
• Write essential questions
• Choose project evidence (your product and any other artifacts of your learning)
• Create tasks

4. Attend proposal team for approval
5. Start work on your project!

• Complete task list in Project Foundry
• Upload evidence into Project Foundry each day
• Meet with your advisor for any help you need
• Your advisor checks in on tasks/deadlines and request pieces of evidence along the way

6. Done with your research and evidence? Write a project reflection
7. Submit your project to your advisor. (At this time it may be returned to you for revision.) Be sure to include:

1. Project evidence (final product)
2. Reflection
3. Works Cited

8. Present your work to your advisory, the school, a community group.
9. Meet to finalize the project with proposal team

• See “What to Bring to Finalization Team” document

• Advisors ask questions about your learning

• You and the advisors review rubric and discuss the amount of credit you’ve earned

10. Write thank you notes for community experts you consulted with during the project