PLP+Project+Requirements

School teams have an opportunity to showcase, reflect, and celebrate the success and outcomes of their learning at our culminating event.


 * Project focus should be: (choose one)**

1. **Professional development**- to share/scale what the team is learning with the rest of the faculty by addressing a PD need or addressing a specific issue, problem, or possibility.

2. **Instructional**- to co-develop a cross curricular project (PBL or Inquiry) unit of study that is co-taught by team or to address an instructional issue, problem, or possibility.

Your development of the project will be transparent so others can follow and replicate if desired and so you can get feedback from the network along the way. This can be done in any mobilized space such as your group room in NING, a Google doc, a blog ect. But please make sure you share your action research transparent space with the community so we can all learn from each other. We hope there will be notes on meetings, videos reflections, artifacts, and any data collected.
 * Documenting Your Project**

1. **The problem or question.** What is the problem (or opportunity) you wish to address with your project? Describe what you wish to change, for example, aspects of content (e.g. test scores), process (e.g. ability to collaborate), climate (e.g. morale), or tech use (e.g. embedded use of technology in instruction). Be as specific as possible in describing what you want to change.
 * Steps**

2. **Objectives and Assessment** Develop objectives and authentic assessments for determining what you want learners (adults or students) to be able to know and do after the project and how you will determine they have indeed mastered the objectives your project laid out.

3. **Networked Design** Then think about how you will design your project so participants can share, connect, collaborate, or move to some type of collective action. You also want to be constructivist in your collaborative learning through the project. Co-construction of meaning is critical to this experience-- NOT 5 individuals doing something in the silos of their own understanding.

4. **Set the Context** What have others done (at your institution or elsewhere) to address this problem? Do some research as a team to see what others have done. Get ideas. Divi up different research roles to individual team members. Gather data, do a needs survey, ask your PLN ect.

5. **Proposal** How will you plan to solve the problem or answer the question or address the possibility? Describe what you will do to address the problem/opportunity described earlier. Are you doing anything differently than others have attempted? Why or why not? Why do you propose that your approach will succeed better than prior attempts or will work better with your students or faculty?

6. **Evaluation** How will you determine the success and effectiveness of your solution and the impact of your project? Do you plan to determine pre and post results? How will you know that the behavior of your students/faculty has changed/improved? Note: You may not be able to obtain your results by the end of your year. However, you should have a plan in place to evaluate your project and report on the results. The idea is to develop a solid plan to share with others. If you implement this year or next is entirely up to you. When possible make this an action research project.

7. **Timeline** How will your project progress? Indicate the dates of project initiation and completion for each step of your design, implementation, and evaluation.

8. **Documentation** How will you document your progress along the way? Will you share in your team group room in NING? Will you create a collaborative blog? A wiki? A Google Doc? Choose one and then everyone will use the document to make the process transparent.

During this next PLP phase-(until our next E sessions) ask questions, explore ideas, research and plan. You may not know what you do not know. Or at the least be prepared to revise, revise, revise. Be transparent in your planning and experimenting. Ask the community for help. Use the PLN you are starting to develop or will develop over this next phase.

Your team should be in high gear in terms of project plans and implementation by mid March.

Your team will develop a learning showcase for our PLP Culminating meeting (in May) where your team shares your project and the results of your project plan.