What is Project Foundry?

Building on the strengths of student-centered project-based, cross-curricular learning, Project Foundry® engages students in the learning process, dramatically reduces the paperwork usually associated with individualized learning and aggregates perfomance-based assessment in an articulate, searchable format.

Project Foundry is a proven online project based learning management system built by practitioners who understood the value of the pedagogy and inherent need for a streamlined tool that engages students and ensures meaningful academic results.

Why Project Foundry?

• Become a Truly Learner-centered Environment- Project Foundry was created specifically to engage students and help the respective adults facilitate individualized learning per student. Be leery of traditional systems that have only recently hired a marketing professional to add the words ‘learner-centered’ to their product brochures. We’ve lived it and continue to do so via model schools throughout the country.
• Save Time- Managing individualized learning in authentic ways is very cumbersome on paper and not much better via a cooked up spreadsheet or Filemaker® database. Project Foundry streamlines the effort and paperwork by providing quick search tools, professional looking reports and standards-based transcripts.
• Create Authentic Student Portfolios- Too often student portfolios are a nice thought, but done in a mad dash or not done very well at all. Using Project Foundry organically collects and organizes student work along the way as well as provides a easy to use website builder offering the needed balance of collection and showcase.
• Validate Learning Standard/outcome Completion- When doing anything different than traditional courses, you’re undoubtedly held to a higher level of accountability. Using Project Foundry allows you to align learning standards/outcomes to the variety of teaching and learning techniques at hand in your innovative school. At the end of the process, these aligned standards are validated and roll up into easy to read reports and views. This within a click transparency and articulation means you spend less time defending your good work and more time showing it off.
• Facilitate more frequent, informative feedback loops- Learning happens within feedback loops. Project Foundry provides quick and convenient ways to post timely feedback. This feedback more than likely will facilitate a face to face conversation with a student, but can also be used to document a conversation along the way.
• Embrace Meta-Cognition without Trying(sort of)- A combination of built-in self-assessment rubrics, student journaling and configurable product/project expectations help students value how they learn, understand what improvement means and become self-directed learners.
• Join a network of proven innovators- Using Project Foundry opens you to many training and networking opportunities inside and outside of the platform with educators from nationally recognized schools across the country. Participate and learn how these schools are doing things better and different.

Benefits of Project Foundry