Attachment #6

San Juan Island School District

FRIDAY HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL

Proposed Senior Culminating Project Plan

A fundamental goal of public education is to develop lifelong learners who use their minds and their skills well.  The four components of Friday Harbor High School’s Proposed Senior Culminating Project move students through challenging academic activities that both develop and demonstrate their accomplishment of this fundamental goal.  After students have successfully completed the Scholarly Paper and the Autobiographical Letter in their freshman year, and have selected their Community Project, they will complete the final Community Project piece during their sophomore and junior years and the Exhibition Component, the Spring Forum in their senior year. It is at the Spring Forum, when students present their culminating community projects and high school learning journey to a community panel, where students will be prepared to discuss how and why they are ready to take responsibility for their own learning.

How the Senior Culminating Project Addresses Washington State Learning Goals

Washington State Learning Goals

1.      Read with comprehension, write with skill, and communicate effectively and responsibly in a variety of ways and settings.

2. Know and apply the core concepts and principles of mathematics; social, physical, and life sciences; civics and history; geography, arts; and health and fitness.
3. Think analytically, logically and creatively, and integrate experience and knowledge to form reasoned judgments and solve problems.
4. Understand the importance of work and how performance, effort, and decisions directly affect career and educational opportunities.

Culminating Senior Project and Spring Forum

An opportunity for every student to demonstrate that they can think analytically, logically, and creatively, and can integrate experiences and knowledge to form reasoned judgments and solve problems.

The Culminating Project will assess a broad range of skills in reading, writing, communication, technology, reasoning, problem solving, and research through four distinct components presented to an audience of staff and community members (The Spring Forum) who will interact with, ask questions of, and require the student to defend their work and “learning journey.”  The Spring Forum, then, becomes the actual final Culminating Senior Project component.

Grade 9           

• Complete Scholarly Paper
• Complete Autobiographical Letter
• Select Pathway of Passion and Interest and match with Community Project
• Select a specific two-year Community Project – Completion date will be at the end of the junior year or the beginning of the senior year

Grade 10 & 11

·        Get Community Project approved by the Center for Student Action Board

·        Document Community Project from inception of the idea through the completion of the product, service, production, performance, or creative endeavor

·        Complete Community Project

·        Develop Evaluation Process

·        Complete Presentation Plan (senior year)

Grade 12 -                  

·        Prepare for Spring Forum (Presentation to a panel of community members)

·        Present work and respond to questions

·        Use technology throughout the process

PROPOSED SENIOR CULMINATING PROJECTS

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LEAVE A COMMUNITY LEGACY BEHNID

·        Complete an economic plan for and island retail shop(s)

·        Develop a guide to restaurants and small shops

·        Complete a cultural plan for the Island

·        Serve the needs of Parks & Rec to develop a youth program –i.e. summer computer lab program for youth

·        Design, plan, or build a facet of the “Gravel Pit” park

·        Collect data for the Chamber of Commerce to facilitate a program of need

·        Work on producing a video/audio production on the history of the Island.

·        Develop a program for senior citizens to record their family’s histories in scrapbook fashion or video

·        Develop a much needed program for the Convalescent Center

·        Assist and/or develop island restaurant and bed and breakfasts in producing a marketing plan

·        Organize an International Fair for the island

·        Coordinate a Headstart reading program

·        Organize a program

·        Serve on a board – a non-profit board i.e. Dollars for Scholars, Theatre Board, San Juan Island School Board, Community Foundation Board, for two-three years

·        Plan a pocket park

·        Create a public site and sculpture for the community

·        Develop a home education fun packet for day care programs and parents with young children

·        Develop a San Juan Island community resource web page, handbook

·        Create a “Big Sister” organization and structure to connect high school young women with middle school young women to address sexuality issues

·        Form a student-run and managed drug and alcohol help center

·        Work with adults to form a student-run and managed business i.e. horticulture, latte stand or any other needed service learning community project that needs to be addressed

·        Form a teen center board that will work to form a teen center at a community site i.e. Brown Center

·        Develop a student-run arts production center for non-profit organizations

·        Develop a Meals-on-Wheels Program

·        Create a San Juan Island Visual Arts Guide for tourists

·        Collect tourism data for the Chamber by surveying people arriving and leaving on the island at the ferry landing

·        Create a cultural Kiosk at the teen center

·        Participate in Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts

·        Develop, plan, build bike/walking trails