{"id":2811,"date":"2017-11-06T17:53:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T21:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2017-11-06T17:53:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T21:53:02","slug":"first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2811","title":{"rendered":"First day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crap day: first day of second quarter when it’s a three day week (no school Tuesday, no school Friday). I wanted to start thinking about what it means to do an individual project, mostly because I want to make sure these projects are viable. <\/p>\n

I was thrilled because several key things I learned from last year came up: <\/p>\n

One, there has to be an external mentor who they are regularly working with to ensure that there’s something real there. As a teacher, the work of the student in building and maintaining this relationship is not only necessary for the project’s success, it’s one of the more valuable things they’ll do. <\/p>\n

Two, “impact” shows up on three of the posters and it allowed us to talk about how one measures a project, both while it’s going and once it’s complete. <\/p>\n

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Crap day: first day of second quarter when it’s a three day week (no school Tuesday, no school Friday). I wanted to start thinking about what it means to do an individual project, mostly because I want to make sure these projects are viable. I was thrilled because several key things I learned from last … Continue reading First day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-2017_2018"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-Jl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}