Garber Resources

Garber FAQs from Meridian Visit

Garber FAQs from last Department Meeting with ISD

• What do projects look like?

  • Exemplar projects from the network

  • High School Art 

  • Similarity - Geometry

  • ELA/SS - American Studies Muckrackers

• How do integrated classes work? How would people be partnered? How would that be decided?

  • Examples of courses that have been integrated

  • Evidence of Success report

  • Sample Project Calendar

  • Curriculum calendar - Year at a Glance for American ELA/SS

How do schools that don’t do integrated classes work?/Could you piggyback and do a project without being fully integrated?

• • Individual courses emphasize student centered practices and PBL. Depending on the amount of co-planning time and the master scheduling of students, some teachers plan really robust projects across disciplines or less robust but with some integration.

  • Econ 3 and Chemistry integrated project across grades and classes

Do the end of all projects have to be big and expensive?

• Many different products can be the end of a project, not just physical

Bookend Resources created by Schools

Ppt by teacher in Hardin County, KY that shows student goals.

Example Bookend Lessons (from schools who have taken the workshop)

Lake Ridge MS

Roosevelt HS Core Teachers*

Satellite Center

Product of Powers Lesson 

Natural Selection

GEOMETRY: Congruent Triangles Theorems 

English/Ecology/Geometry Lesson

American Lit (11th grade)

8th Grade Social Studies - DBQ integration

8th Grade ELA - Poetry

Manor New Tech lesson bank

Satellite Center - CTE/Art examples