Week of December 1st - 4th | Create, Critique, Refine

The deadline for creation is Friday, December 11th! This week is about seeking feedback, so that final decisions made about your project are inclusive of your intention and an audience's response. 

Recommendations for this week:

Reconnect. Report out on work goals established before break; How did you do? How can your group support you?

Maintain daily routines and document goals, progress, and reflections. 

As a group, determine feedback needs and create a shared schedule for the next two weeks. Respect time needed. Revisit expectations for quality feedback.

Have an experienced student share their vision for their Exhibition of Learning with the others. Consider: How will the final product be introduced to an audience?  What are the key ideas and choices that must be shared in order to engage the audience? Anticipate the selections of research that might best support your work in your exhibition.

 

 

 

 

Week of November 23rd | A week to yourself! Wait, what?

Monday is our only day of IDEAS Project Block for a whole week. This is the true test of your Habits of Work. Don't leave without a detailed plan. Project Creation Deadline is December 11! 

Remember, we will meet briefly after Seminar Previews on Tuesday. See Advisory plans for more detail.

REMINDERS

Exhibitions of Learning>>

The Exhibitions of Learning planning team (Madison, Molly, and Kimberly) need to know how you envision sharing your work out to the public in January. Please communicate with us. We hope to be able to confirm venues and schedules soon.

Art Form Feedback>>

Advisors should provide feedback on the progress of each student's art form using a disciplinary rubric and Jupiter with notes. This will help facilitate the conversation about IDEAS Block at Presentations of Learning next week. 

 

Week of November 16th - 20th | Accountability & Creation

This week's focus is on what you are creating in your discipline to communicate your research-based ideas. As we progress through studio days, feedback sessions, and professional models ... we are also making things. We are making models, prototypes, drafts, iterations, and sketches. It is time, in the timeline of Project Block, to approach the final drafts. Advisors will provide feedback on any evidence is available of a final product, using a disciplinary rubric. This feedback is not weighted in the grade book but it is valuable feedback to you and those who attend your Presentation of Learning.
RITUALIZED WEEKS>>

Please use your ritualized weeks and be aware of what is happening in other spaces. Remember that each day should include some documentation of progress, thinking, reflection, planning ahead, etc. This might be through the use of studio journals, and/or calendars. THIS WEEK, have a conversation about what evidence students should use for their presentations of Learning.

MONDAY>>

Madison, Molly, and Kimberly are still conferencing with students in order to clarify their EoL visions. We will find the students we need to see. At the END OF THIS WEEK, Jupiter will reflect the details that we have and we will iron out any inconsistencies next week.

WEDNESDAY>>

Plan ahead for students being absent for the MSOE/MIAD Campus Visit and UW-Whitewater Writers' Festival!

Don't forget! Young Chicago Authors 18th - 20th at 7:00pm - Information & Tickets

FRIDAY>>

 Advisors and students will collaborate to create/review/revise disciplinary rubrics and then evaluate the progress of each product, using the rubric, and enter that into Jupiter. Please include the name of each standard along with any other comments in the comments section of Jupiter. 

NOTES

Please see last week's post if you need supplies. Hint: Communicate with StuART.

The next Habits of Professionalism check in is scheduled for November 27th in Jupiter, however we have a two-day week next week. Advisors may delay one week, however the date cannot change in Juipter due to the end of the Trimester. Questions? Ask Kimberly. 

Week of November 9th - 13th | Creation Phase: EoL Visioning & Professional Models

What will 6 or 10 hours of creation look like for your project this week? Yes, 6 hours of your school week is reserved just for you to crawl into your project and grapple with the constraints and possibilities of creating whatever it is you have envisioned. Progress toward fulfilling that vision, so that your project communicates your thinking and understanding to others in the most memorable ways. If you can commit to the 6 hours we provide, you'll see how 4 more of your own will be valuable.

Part of this process is engaging in your disciplinary groups. Please enact previously designed ritualized weeks and, as the Creation Phase progresses, discuss, evaluate, and tweak routines. The Ritualized Weeks document should reflect changes. Please use the same document to support students with multi-disciplinary projects, who may need to participate in the professional models, feedback, or other aspects of another discipline.

Items to incorporate into Ritualized Weeks: 

MONDAY>>

IDEAS Exhibitions of Learning Vision Form This form is necessary for formalizing a plan for Exhibitions of Learning, both on the part of the individual creating the project as well as for creating the schedule of events. Please complete this form (ONE PER PROJECT) with attention to detail and professionalism. If you have already completed the form, but have questions or tweaks, please contact Madison O'Brien. Students who have underdeveloped projects at this point, will conference with Molly, Kimberly, or Madison to identify Exhibition constraints.

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY>>

We will have a regular hour of Project Block in the morning on Wednesday and go to JMKAC in the afternoon for Footlights :  AXIS Dance. We will prepare for this experience in Advisory and reflect together as a school, however students should also document connections, extensions, and challenges as the professional model relates to their projects on Thursday. A studio journal would be a good place for this to land. More information here.

FRIDAY>>

Evidence of Learning Jupiter Reporting This week, Project Advisors will look at evidence of Habits of Work, Self-Discipline, and Communication. Groups are encouraged to generate examples of evidence collaboratively at the beginning of the week. Next week, disciplinary rubrics will be introduced and an initial critique will also be entered into Jupiter as Evidence of Learning. 

Also: 

IDEAS Project Art Supplies Request Form
If you are in need of supplies for your project, please check with Stuart first. He may have what you are looking for. If he doesn't, then you are to complete the request form.

Young Chicago Authors will be back in Sheboygan on November 18th and 20th, with culminating performances starting at 7:00pm each night! 

November 6th | Exhibitions of Learning Vision

Week of November 2nd - 6th | Creation Phase

Create! There are six weeks between now and our December 11th project deadline!

This week, groups should follow the routine they designed and reflect on its effectiveness. (Advisors will share these out at this week's staff meeting.) If some groups are still in transition, please reference last week's post. (Remember to communicate with Addie and Beckah regarding writing.)

MAKE IT OFFICIAL (by Friday)

As we progress through the week, students will be asked to provide an overview of their projects and translate their creative intent into a vision for their Exhibition of Learning. All will need to provide the following in a Google form we will send out on Friday :

• Project Title (Official)
• Driving Question
• Summary of Intent (150 words)
• Exhibition length and format.

We will also want to know dates, times, and locations of any other project-related events happening. (For example, a meeting with the Mayor or an open mic that you've planned to showcase your music.)

This information will be used to develop the marketing, schedule, and venues for Exhibitions of Learning.

UPCOMING PROFESSIONAL MODELS

Please consider how you will incorporate the following professional models into the discourse about creative intent, process, feedback, and exhibition:

• November 3rd and 6th - Brandon Ballangée (Ecology & Art)
• November 11th - Axis Dance at JMKAC (all students)
• November 11th - Americorps Guest Speaker
• November 18th - UW-Whitewater Creative Writing Festival
• November 18 - 20th - Young Chicago Authors are in town
• Others? Generate with your groups.