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How are you prepared to Walk the Walk this year? How will your journey reflect action research ?

Please go to your personal learning journal page and respond to the following:

Identify your Goals & Objectives

What Obstacles/Problems do you anticipate?

What Strategies will you use to overcome these obstacles?

What resources and materials will you share via our EA wiki and learning community?

Data Collection:

Pre-assessment - how will you determine the base-line of your students in your target area?

Action Research Assessment and Evaluation:

How will you measure success? How will you know if you have succeeded? What will you collect as evidence of success? Who else is thinking about this?

Early Adopter: Inquiry & Design Challenge
My Destination Postcard: 



Name: >
 * =====Campus: SWHS =====
 * =====Grade Level(s): 10,11,12 =====
 * =====Discipline: Psychology, Sociology =====
 * =====Topic: =====
 * =====Focus Question: How do I know that I have done enough to learn the topic? What growth happened? Did I get better at research and presentations? What can I work on for next time?=====
 * ===== Resources: //s// //earch for existing resources (articles, websites, blogs, videos, etc.) - please be sure to add them to our [|Diigo] //=====

> Working on the Work >
 * ===== Activity: =====
 * 1) Individually, design a student resource, activity type, or mini-challenge to try in the classroom over the next month to test. Then, get feedback from partners.
 * 2) Try out resource, activity type, or project during the month(s), documenting plan, process, execution and reflection and collect student work samples.
 * 
 * < // please add link to Round 2 activity // >
 * < // please add link to Round 3 activity // >

//Please create a page for your activities that will help others understand the steps you are taking in your inquiry and design process.//

**Creating Your Activity Page [[image:InqDesign.png align="right"]]**

 * 1) Please make a new page:
 * Title: 
 * Template: activity design
 * Tag : design, campus
 * 1) SAVE your page
 * 2) Check to be sure your page appears at the top of our Activity Share page

//example:// Jennifer F. Round 1


 * Mining the Effort **
 * What artifacts of your personal learning have you been collecting?

I have kept all my planning notes and my own reflection notes for future years. I need to be better at writing down my notes in the same (safe) places every time.
 * What process shifts do these suggest in your practice?


 * What artifacts of student learning have you been collecting?

The students all wrote reflection essays after each project. Those essays are proof that they learned, enjoyed the learning, had very personal learning, worked on individual goals, and planned for future learning.


 * What process shifts do these suggest in their practice?

I won't be so quick to force even the most apathetic learner to do the alternative assignment. They might still be successful with the project.

How is your journey like that of a storyteller? Of a researcher?
 * An Opportunity in Overalls **

I tell stories all day long. I will even be able to share how this journey developing this type of learning environment with other teachers who are struggling to help students find individual success.

What question did you start out to find answer(s) to?
 * What tweaks, edits, modifications have you made to your focus question? Making my instructions WAY WAY more clear on each successive project.
 * What question(s) remain? How do I aim for overall success if I allow them to skip their weaknesses every time.
 * What new questions have surfaced as a result of your exploration this far? Are the projects fair? Some students will never be good at public speaking.