The students will be working on a School Improvement Plan to present to the principal. They will be coming up with ideas to improve the school and then will try to convince the principal.
To begin with, they came up with ideas about things they thought were important to the principal:
And here are some of the vocabulary the class came up with (Adult Speak):
And here is an example of a brainstorm idea (how having hot-chocolate fountains in school will lead to better grades):
Here is the graphic organizer:
School Improvement Committee Graphic Organizer
And here is the evaluation rubric (what I will be looking for):
School Improvement Committee Report Evaluation Rubric 2009
Today we talked about how we will organize our information on the graphic organizer and we brainstormed ideas. It looked like this:
Mr. Wendler's Class 2011-2012 