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=GLOBAL CHALLENGE 2020!!!=

I. *Research Beginnings: * *Education in our three wonderful cities - a local investigation*

What do we know? How do we know this? (newspapers? gossip? parents? friends?

What do we want What will we do to find out? to find out? (research? interviews? etc)

I can keep going with the list-thing because I love lists/questions/etc, but I know you get it. If we did this, we'd have a ton of information to work with. We can share our lists and the girls can help each other to generate ideas, to hone the questions for each other, to make suggestions. This could be a small beginning of working together.

*II. Research Process: We get to work with the actual gathering of information* (...and our girls gather hundreds of amazing, wondrous, well-written and completely accurate facts about education in their respective cities...mmmm) <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Our girls begin to gather facts using the research methods that each of us <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">helps them to use.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">*III. Post Research Part I. What shall we do with all this good stuff?* <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">We could decide on categories for our schools to use; the girls would <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">organize their information accordingly. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">(We could have gone either one of two directions by this step - gathering <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">information by category at the beginning of the research process OR waiting <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">until this point to have the girls generate possible categories. I tend to <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">favor the latter strategy, giving students that kind of freedom to gather <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">lots and lots of ideas and sort them later.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">*IV. Collaboration Part I.* <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">We share our categories, exploring for similarities, differences, overlap, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">etc.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">*V. Drawing Conclusions, Connecting Seemingly Disparate Ideas. * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">(You know what I mean...)

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">*VI. Final Product* <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Again, as in III, we could have decided, at the beginning, what the final <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">product would be, or we can have the girls figure that out at this point. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Now the possibilities for collaboration and technology belongs to them!! (I <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">will want a scotch at this point)

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">*VII. * *Final Presentation To Our Respective Schools*


 * 1) *...*in some way that is right for each of us.....