Dear Project Facilitator,
Thank you for volunteering your time to serve as a Project Facilitator for Senior
Project. This Project provides seniors with a real world experience, one that they
are passionate about and one that they link to a career, as they journey into a
topic of their choice. Throughout the year, they pursue this “learning stretch” as
they complete each of the four components of the Project: a research paper, a
tangible product, a portfolio, and a culminating presentation in May - Senior
Boards.
The role of a Project Facilitator is to provide the student with the skills/knowledge
necessary to satisfy the required “learning stretch.” This journey ultimately
enables students to create a tangible, challenging, and quality Product, one
worthy of the time and effort they invested. Students present their Project
Facilitator with a Proposal outlining what they hope to accomplish, how they hope
to accomplish it, the skills/knowledge they intend to acquire, and the projected
cost. They are responsible for initiating their own journey and actively seeing it
through until completion. Once the Project Facilitator and the student have
agreed to this plan/schedule, the role of Project Facilitator is to:
 enable the student to create a challenging yet achievable Product through
the skills/knowledge he/she acquires in satisfying the “learning stretch.”
 guide, encourage, and oversee the student during the process.
 verify the time student spends on his or her fieldwork. (Students are
required to devote a minimum of 15 hrs on their product.)
The Project Facilitator will also sign the student’s Product Work Log verifying
time spent and progress made during each of the four designated dates for
progress checks. A separate verification form will be mailed to the Project
Facilitator upon completion of the Product. Due dates are assigned by each
teacher, so you will need to consult your student for those dates.
We appreciate your willingness to assist this student in his or her fieldwork. If at
any time problems or questions arise, please contact your student’s Senior
Project teacher at Polaris Evening Program 770-926-1662 (English Dept.) or
through his or her email.
Once again, thank you so much for supporting the Senior Project.
Sincerely,
Senior Project teachers
Polaris Evening Program