This winter weed has done a good job digging into the sunny raised gardens up front.
Easy enough to pull.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Making more questions
One thing we do is ask students to reflect on the variety of skills necessary for projects to move forward. We’ve encoded these skills in our evaluation system but it’s still important to regularly return to those skills, process them, and think about how they apply to the current project work. The photo below is a creative effort to integrate this week’s conversation about seizing control of your own work with our reflection questions.
The trail we leave
Spend too much time watching the Walking Dead and your opening circle activities look like this:
“When someone is committed to their work, what footprints do they leave behind? What trail is left when they’ve finished?”
JB: People see what you’ve done; they can point at it and understand the accomplishment
HG: The final product makes an impact on people. It creates further opportunities.
ES: They leave behind drafts and revisions; you can see what the work process looked like.
TD: You can show off what you’ve done.
AB: Your name is known.
TC: you’ve provided a model of how you work.
Student posts:
March plant starts
Put together two trays with Kara:
5×2 of kale plants:
Red Ursa (Territorial)
Dwarf Blue Curled Scotch (SSE)
Scarlet Kale (SSE)
Lacinato Kale (SSE)
Healthy Kale Mix (Seeds of Change)
8 x 1 of lettuce with two rows of greens
Collared Greens (FM)
Tatsoi (SSE)
Flashy Trouts (Territorial)
Green Oak Leef (SSE)
Gully’s Favorite (SSE)
Bronze Arrowhead (SSE)
Amish Deer Tongue (SSE)
Grisp mint (SSE)
Flame (SSE)
There’s one missing. Damn.
People we know, people we don’t know
Spent this Wednesday morning talking about people that we know who are inside of their work (and have total ownership of it) as well as describing individuals we don’t know whose life work shows their ownership over their work. The list of characteristics is here:
Time invested
People want to be around them
Their work helps other people
They’ve made changes/adjustments; they know how to do things
Know everything about it; confident in their work
Constantly revising
They are recognized
Student Work:
My dork work (Lisa on the left, author/critic A.O. Scott, whose book I’m loving, is on the right)
How do you take control of your own work,
even when you still need help?
We began with this today and drew cartoons illustrating the best ways to do this.
Best line: You return to what inspired you in the first place. Hooray JW!
