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What is the Rashi Milestone Project?
Milestone projects celebrate learning and showcase each student’s individual passions and strengths. In all Milestone projects, students drive their own learning by:
Identifying a topic of passion and extend their horizons
Identifying a real-world, relevant problem
Making an impact for someone else
Using design thinking as a problem-solving process
Demonstrating progress towards a solution
Milestone projects foster self-discovery and the building of identity that can carry into high school and beyond.
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Specific Learning Goals and Outcomes for Students
Identify a topic of passion and extend your horizons in order to choose a project topic
Take risks
Identify a real-world, relevant problem
Listen to the needs of a client (empathy)
Conduct research and defend your thesis, which will help in identifying sub-problems. Create a pitch about the problem needing to be solved (before working on a solution) and a proposal of your solution
Document the process (photos and brief descriptions)
Reflect on own learning
Give and receive feedback using “see, think, wonder”
Present the process and product to an audience
Strengthen public speaking skills
Design Thinking Process
Grade 6
Essential Question
What brings a system to collapse? FAILING FORWARD
In Grade 6 students focus on the process over product. Each step of the project is an opportunity for the students to reflect on their work, understand what changes need to be made, and how to move forward with their work.
Grade 7
Essential Question
Small and large SCALE: Do similar principles hold true for both?
Students in Grade 7 focus on the scale of their project. They recognize that every smaller part of their work contributes and works toward resolving a larger problem.
Grade 8
Essential Question
Are we the sum of our parts? What determines our IDENTITY?
Students in Grade 8 focus on why they chose the topic they did, what is their connection to their topic, and how does it shape their identity, who they are as an individual and who they are in their community.
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