{"id":103,"date":"2026-10-03T14:25:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jameslinzel\/?p=103"},"modified":"2026-10-03T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T23:53:00","slug":"day-one-defining-the-problem-using-sparc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jameslinzel\/2026\/10\/03\/day-one-defining-the-problem-using-sparc\/","title":{"rendered":"Day One &#8211; Defining the Problem &#8212; Using SPARC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the position of having a predefined design challenge to solve. My challenge is to co-design, with my colleague, an integrated grade nine geography [CGC1W] and grade nine science [SNC1W] course.<\/p>\n<p>When using SPARC, the initial question focused on our ideal day and what prevents that ideal day from happening. The line of questioning led us to a position that is beyond our control. That is the structure of the school day. My colleague and I have already been given approval to attend Cohort21 to help us gain time and guidance and ideas on how to structure and delivery the learning activities for our students.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, the line of questioning by SPARC has been previously, satisfactorily resolved at this time. Perhaps in the future we will need to reengage administration to create next steps.<\/p>\n<p>Our current challenge is to follow up our first learning challenge with an equally engaging experience. Our first challenge asked our students to refine and define the Driving Question of &#8220;How does Ashbury shape us? &#8220;. Most student teams refined the question to ask how social events, or boarding, influenced their well being. Given a VERY short timeline, the students needed to define their audience, design a survey to collect evidence, analyze the evidence, and present their findings. Now that I describe the steps, I remember how well they did as they presented to their peers and a few members of the leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>How do we follow this up?<\/p>\n<p>Our second question, &#8220;How do natural processes shape the land we live on?&#8221;, is focused on the physical geography &amp; chemistry &amp; energy changes, of Earth&#8217;s formation. My concern lies with the fact that at this time there is a lack of life. I&#8217;m wary of a lack of emotional connection. We are struggling with the design of the Final Response, BUT it offers the opportunity to have a personal connection. We shall see.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the position of having a predefined design challenge to solve. My challenge is to co-design, with my colleague, an integrated grade nine geography [CGC1W] and grade nine science [SNC1W] course. When using SPARC, the initial question focused on our ideal day and what prevents that ideal day from happening. The line of questioning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jameslinzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jameslinzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jameslinzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jameslinzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jameslinzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jameslinzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jameslinzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jameslinzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jameslinzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jameslinzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}