Our first official meeting serves as an opportunity to clarify the purpose of GSPP, our grant outcomes, and the role of the Sonoma Seven Implementation Team.

Meeting number two was held at Windsor High School. We got a tour of their numerous CTE programs and dove into the GSPP Consortium Budget. A Scope and Sequence for meetings next year is next on the agenda.

Meeting number three was held at Petaluma City Schools. As the first meeting of 2025-26 school year, we dove into general updates and benchmarks to plan out our work ahead. Additionally, we discuss how to proceed with compiling site and county-wide date snapshots.

Our September meeting took place at Analy High School and focused on the structure of the ISS Design Team. As a team, we still need to clarify how much we co-design vs. coordinate.

What is Inquiry Studio? What am I doing here? What can I expect? What is PBL, and where does it fit into my practice? All very valid questions. We hope to set the stage for our week-long sprint into designing an interdisciplinary, integrated PBL unit by putting you in the shoes of a student and experiencing PBL firsthand.

Externships! Summer teacher externships provide an opportunity for Sonoma County educators to observe, investigate, and develop connections between academic content standards and the daily operations of a local business.

Let’s unpack our externship experiences and pull out our key learnings/insights. As we move through the day, we aim to narrow in on a driving question by conducting some curriculum mapping and early design work.

Well, that was fast! It’s our last day together, and we want you to leave with a pressure-tested driving question and a plan for how to take your PBL unit from idea to implementation.