Thursday, March 16, 2017 | CREATION PHASE | Check in and Studio Time

Writing Conferences

Guiding Questions: 

What do you need to know to continue creation?

• What do you need for materials?
• What are you excited about creating?
• What scares you about this phase?

Announcements

• Review and establish daily or weekly routines before next week.
• Review, tweak, and commit to routines and ways you will document progress individually and as a group.
• Perhaps Compass Points will offer clarity on this: What is needed? What are the worries? What suggestions to people have? What are we excited about?  
• Fill out the Materials Request Form for Stuart.
• Tomorrow you will fill out your first Self-Assessment of your creation phase. Next week you will be doing an evidence check based on your art form intention. Your CREATION Advisor will conference with you on where you are in your creation process.

Do Now (2 minutes)

• Mental Preparation and Material Setup (notebook and Web-Portfolio). Coordinate the day with partner(s). If time permits, starting thinking about and developing your goal for studio time today.  Think ahead.
• Make sure you are in your art form group.

Do Next (5 minutes)

• Compass Points - Make this visible on a Large Post-It or piece of paper
• N: What do you still need to know? What do you need for materials still?
• E: What excites you about creating?
• W: What are you worried about in creation phase?
• S: What are some suggestions and advice you have for newbies?

Goal Setting (13 minutes)

• (3 minutes) - Completed on Studio Time Journal following Smart Goal format.  Pair and Share Goals
• (5 minutes) - Goal Sharing: Quick 3-5 words
• (5 minutes) - Get set up and started based on goal. Do you understand what you need to do?  Do you have any frustrations or setbacks?

Studio Time (50 minutes) Return to classroom spaces by 11:00 if working in the hallways!

• 45 minutes: Start studio time with directed purpose behind what you are accomplishing. Last 5 minutes clean up the room if studio time involved building materials or art supplies
• 5 minutes - Take time to Pair-Share your accomplishments and quick feedback before you write your reflections.

Ticket Out (5 minutes)

• Complete studio time reflections completed on Studio Time Journal sheets
• Fill out the Materials Request Form for Stuart.

Wednesday, February 8 | Research Studio Time

DO NOW: COMPASS POINTS [10 min]

Purpose: Students will look closely at the evidence of their thinking and learning, in order to create a detailed summary of their progress and identify next steps.

• Independently, all students should look at their feedback on their documents (physical and/or digital). Staff should respond to or collect clarifying questions.
• Independently, all students should complete a detailed compass points for their project or their role in their group project. Emphasis on detailed!
• N >> What do you need to know? Clarifying questions you have for staff or about your own topic? What are your priorities going into research?
• E >> What are you most excited about now and in the near future?
• W >> What are you worried about? What specific obstacles are you facing in your project?
• S >> What are your immediate next steps? What does your feedback suggest that you need to do? What suggestions do you have for yourself?

PAIR SHARE [8 min]

• Students should find a partner- not in the same group  and preferably one who they don't normally work with
• Share your compass points with each other
• Review them, add comments with feedback offering additional suggestions and adding more detail.

SHARE OUT [5 min]

• What questions or need to knows are there for the good of the group?
• Advisors, please share these with Tim and Addie. 

STUDIO TIME: CLOSED QUESTIONS [8:20-8:50]

Purpose: Students will continue or begin research, according to the next steps identified above. Staff will check in with each student, giving emphasis to students who do not have completed or approved proposals.

• Identify a studio time goal. Share it.
• (Note: This will become a routine. Where will students in your group document studio time goals and progress? How and when will reflection take place? Tomorrow's gathering will be focused on this.)
• Staff will set priorities for conferencing during studio time.
• Reflection on studio time.

Proposals should be completed, revised, and ready for assessment by this point. In order to have enough quality time researching, it is important to continue moving forward. This means additional time outside of P-Block time. 

TICKET OUT: 1 interesting or exciting piece of information from your research today. 1 additional question you added to your document

Thursday October 27th, 2016 | Reflect on the Start of Creation

Guiding Questions:

• What do you need to know to continue creation?
• What do you need for materials?
• What are you excited about creating?
• What scares you about this phase?

Announcements

• Review and establish daily or weekly routines before next week.
• Review, tweak, and commit to routines and ways you will document progress individually and as a group.
• Perhaps Compass Points will offer clarity on this: What is needed? What are the worries? What suggestions to people have? What are we excited about?  
• Fill out the Materials Request Form for Stuart.
• Mark Attendance

Do Now (2 minutes)

• Mental Preparation and Material Setup (notebook and Web-Portfolio). Coordinate the day with partner(s). If time permits, starting thinking about and developing your goal for studio time today.  Think ahead.
• Make sure you are in your art form group.

Do Next (5 minutes)

• Compass Points - Make this visible on a Large Post-It or piece of paper
• N: What do you still need to know? What do you need for materials still?
• E: What excites you about creating?
• W: What are you worried about in creation phase?
• S: What are some suggestions and advice you have for newbies?

Goal Setting (13 minutes)

• (3 minutes) - Completed on Studio Time Journal following Smart Goal format.  Pair and Share Goals
• (5 minutes) - Goal Sharing: Quick 3-5 words
• (5 minutes) - Get set up and started based on goal. Do you understand what you need to do?  Do you have any frustrations or setbacks?

Studio Time (50 minutes) Return to classroom spaces by 11:00 if working in the hallways!

• 45 minutes: Start studio time with directed purpose behind what you are accomplishing. Last 5 minutes clean up the room if studio time involved building materials or art supplies
• 5 minutes - Take time to Pair-Share your accomplishments and quick feedback before you write your reflections.

Ticket Out (5 minutes)

• Complete studio time reflections completed on Studio Time Journal sheets
• Fill out the Materials Request Form for Stuart.

Monday, Sept 12th | Reflection on Mini-Projects and Beginning Ideation

Who are we as a community of thinkers, innovators?

What do I need to know about myself and my community, in order to develop a project?

֍ START IN MINI PROJECT WEEK GROUPS FOR REFLECTION

֍ GATHERING: (10:00-10:15)

Circle up! In a go-around, share an appreciation from mini-project exhibitions on Friday. Students are encouraged to share an observation of another group, rather than something from their own group.

֍ SWITCHING INTO IDEATION GROUPS: (10:15-10:20)  

Some students will be switching to IDEATION groups.  Groups will, for the most part, remain constant.  A larger group will be joining Tim in the engineering room as a part of Design team ideation.  

֍ COMPASS POINTS: (10:20-10:35)

To make the transition from mini-projects to independent projects, go through the process of developing compass points and discussing/addressing specific points in a conversation.

• E - Knowing that you have the opportunity to choose and design your own project, what are you most Excited about?
• W - What are you worried about?
• N - What do you need to know, before moving forward or to be able to envision the semester?
• S - What suggestions to experienced students have for the semester? For ideation?

֍ IDEATION: (10:35 - 11:05) 

As a group, review the approaches to ideation that we have looked to in the past weeks and semesters. Also, see if there are other ideas or experiences or suggestions for ideation out there. Capture and share new ideas.

Suggestion: Begin with lists or mind maps of passions, interests, skills, and transformative experiences.

֍ TICKET OUT:  (11:05-11:15)

Headline: If someone was writing an article about you during ideation today, what would their headline be?

Monday, Sept 14th | Reflection on Mini-Projects and Beginning Ideation

Who are we as a community of thinkers, innovators?
What do I need to know about myself and my community, in order to develop a project?

GATHERING: Circle up! Start by revisiting the criteria for a quality appreciation, from Advisory/Town Hall last week. In a go-around, share an appreciation from mini-project exhibitions on Friday. Students are encouraged to share an observation of another group, rather than something from their own group.

COMPASS POINTS: To make the transition from mini-projects to independent projects, go through the process of developing compass points and discussing/addressing specific points in a conversation.

• E - Knowing that you have the opportunity to choose and design your own project, what are you most Excited about?
• W - What are you worried about?
• N - What do you need to know, before moving forward or to be able to envision the semester?
• S - What suggestions to experienced students have for the semester? For ideation?

IDEATION: As a group, review the approaches to ideation that we have looked to in the past weeks and semesters. Also, see if there are other ideas or experiences or suggestions for ideation out there. Capture and share new ideas.

Suggestion: Begin with lists or mind maps of passions, interests, skills, and transformative experiences.

TICKET OUT: Headline: If someone was writing an article about you during ideation today, what would their headline be?