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

Tuesday, February 7 | Research Phase Officially Begins

Today, we will be starting in our RESEARCH groups. Please be on time and ready to share your ideas with your new group. 

DO NOW: SHARE THINKING [3 min]
Share your P-Block folder (which should have ALL you documents and thinking in it) with your new advisor.

DO NEXT: PREPARE ELEVATOR SPEECH [5 min]
You have 30 seconds in an elevator with someone who is looking to fund a new project. They already know what P-Block is, but they don't know anything about your project. 
Prepare a 30 second elevator speech about your project, the problem, your plan, etc. Even if you are working in a group, everyone must share one out.

GATHERING: SHARE SPEECHES [1 min total per person]
Everyone in the group will take turns standing in front of the group sharing their speech. 30 second speech + 30 second thumb vote and feedback.
At the transition, the next person should come up front and the Feedback Collector should be giving the notes to the previous presenter.

Presenter: In 30 seconds, convince the audience to buy into your project. Then, listen respectfully for 30 seconds to feedback.

Audience: Listen respectfully for 30 second speech while writing any questions or feedback you have for the presenter. After the presentation, participate in a thumb vote and 30 seconds of feedback.

Time Keeper: Please keep time for the presenter and the feedback

Task Manager: Please help the time keeper by redirecting the group back to the task when necessary

Feedback Collector: Collect the feedback after each presentation and make sure it gets to the presenter


STUDIO TIME | PROPOSAL REVISIONS + CLOSED QUESTIONS  [at least 30 min]
1. Review and revise your proposals. These will be your first ELA P-Block grade of the semester. Please make sure you have considered all feedback provided to you. It might be helpful to look through the feedback from your elevator speech and make sure the questions that were asked are answered or reiterated in your proposal.

2. Closed questions research and more questions. This semester the first few days of research phase will be dedicated to answering the questions you posed during ideation and asking more.

• Determine the way you will be collecting and documenting your research. 
• Answer your CLOSED QUESTIONS today. What do you need to know about your topic that will give you a better understanding of it and the problems related to it?
• Ask MORE QUESTIONS. Throughout today, you should add at least 2-5 MORE questions to your open and closed question document (it might be helpful to do this in a different color)
• Cite and annotate sources in Easybib
• Create your annotations in a Google Doc first. In the past, we have had trouble with Easybib reloading randomly and students losing annotations. To safeguard against that, please write the annotation in a doc first and then copy and paste it into Easybib. REMEMBER TO SAVE YOUR ANNOTATIONS!

TICKET OUT [5 min]
What is 1 interesting/intriguing fact/idea you learned today? What is 1 additional question that came out of your research today?