1. Within your group, discuss the various educational issues and/or problems that you believe Hononegah is or will be facing now or in its near future.
2. Select one problem or issue that your group would like to resolve or attempt to resolve.
3. Type out a brief, one paragraph description of the problem/issue your group has chosen to address. Explain the nature of the issue/problem: Whom does it affect most? What negative impact will result in the school or community as a whole if this problem is not resolved?
4. If members of your group had unlimited money, time, and power, how would you resolve this problem? Type out a brief explanation of how you would resolve the problem under these ideal conditions.
5. Examine and describe in writing how this problem affects the various stake holders within the school community. Give consideration to all groups: students (by grade level? Gender? Special needs?); school board members; parents; teachers; administrators; counselors; support staff; feeder schools; community members without children; members of the local business communities; city officials; bus drivers; maintenance & janitorial staff. Write a brief description of how each group is affected by the issued/problem and briefly explain how each group might or might not play a role in concocting a solution.
6. Interview all the stake holders about the issue/problem your group has chosen to address. Make appointments; use e-mail, and make telephone calls to each group. Leave no group out. Introduce yourselves to them; explain what your assignment is. Explain to them the nature of the issue/problem you are examining and ask them questions regarding their perceptions of the issue/problem, its magnitude, their ideas about how to create a solution. Ask questions that will elicit detailed responses which will allow you to understand the complexities involved in solving the issue/problem. Take notes!
7. Reassemble as a group and revisit your original "ideal solution" to this problem. In light of the information you acquired in the course of your interviews, propose a new solution that takes into consideration your new found understanding of the problem's complexities.
8. Organize your original solution, interview
notes, and new solution into a 40 minute oral presentation that makes stunning
use of graphs, charts, data, pictures, sounds, and demonstrations.
Be prepared to answer questions, debate and facilitate conversation as
you present.