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Living Change Rubric Flow (with draft versions)

Vision Project cycles

Defining and developing a visionary project for implementing sustainability and developing community.

Rubric Code: JXC56XX

By byrd0023

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Subject: Humanities

Type: Project

Grade Levels: Undergraduate

Living Change Project Rubric Development of Vision Project
	Draft cycle 1 April 11 (N/A)	Draft cycle 2 April 18 (N/A)	Final Version April 25 (N/A)
Problem Definition Defining goals; assessing options
Project Vision pts What specific aspect of sustainability are you interested in?	Draft cycle 1 Explain your desired end state (or overarching) goal. What problems are you hoping to solve?	Draft cycle 2 Develop project goals with specific details and results anticipated.	Final Version Your overarching goal is articulated in a clear, compelling, and hopeful format. The viewer/reader has a clear image of your sustainability vision.
Current trends & conditions pts Research and review needs and issues. <BR> Establish specific goals to be achieved through the project.	Draft cycle 1 Assess current realities with Donut of Justice (classes 3 & 5)	Draft cycle 2 Develop and articulate the relationship between current realities and project goals.	Final Version Analyze how your project will impact the defining conditions that create your challenge.
Project alternatives pts Consider alternative projects that could accomplish goals. What solution will you offer: a product, service, organization, or project? Consider several options.	Draft cycle 1 State several project alternatives, listing the ways each could achieve stated goals. List strengths and weaknesses of each alternative.	Draft cycle 2 Select project that has best "fit" with stated goals. Research other projects with similar goals and content.	Final Version Review project in detail; elaborate specific project plans. Define relationships between the goal(s) and project details that are clear, direct and imaginative.
Sustainability impact assessments pts Assess alternatives for how well they integrate sustainability as integral part of the project goals.	Draft cycle 1 Explain how goals and project alternatives enhance sustainability across social, ecological, and economic realms. Define/judge sustainability outcomes for each alternative.	Draft cycle 2 Develop additions, revisions and alternatives to your selected alternative that enhances sustainability.	Final Version Continue to seek and incorporate creative ways to synthesize the project's sustainability.
Project Definition Articulating your chosen path or project.
Project Description pts Provide a project description that clearly conveys the goals and primary idea of project.	Draft cycle 1 How will your project alternatives work towards your desired state or end goal? What, exactly, you are trying to change (Individual behavior? An industry? Culture or worldviews?)	Draft cycle 2 What is the solution (a product, service, organization, or project) you will offer? Are you advocating for adaptive change or transformational change? Plot on Reporting 3.0 Strategy Continuum (class 6 New Possibilities) Does it address moral extensionism or distributive justice? Show on expanding rings chart. (class 7 - ethics)	Final Version Finalize a project description that is rich in details, stating clearly the intentions, the content, and its innovative features. • If it is a business or product, show how it connects to a circular or solidarity economy. • If it is a system of governance, the Next System class is a helpful reference. •If it is an arts intervention or other creative project, show how it addresses different dimensions of the iceberg chart.
Project Tools & Tactics pts Your specific action idea. How will the project be carried out? What are you going to do?	Draft cycle 1	Draft cycle 2 Find innovative ways to develop your selected project as you find information & identify resources. Specify project content by outlining a strategy that identifies specific needed resources. Who, what, when, where how.	Final Version Highlight the imaginative - but realistic and detailed -plans for pursuing your project.
Project Benefits pts Explain how your project multi-solves to produce several benefits at once: social, ecological, economic.	Draft cycle 1	Draft cycle 2 List the expected benefits, both qualitative and qualitative. Consider: • A change in physical capital (infrastructure) • New relationships (social capital) • Expanded capacities of individuals, teams, or institutions to innovate & conduct complex change (human capital) • Experience and formal lessons (intellectual capital) For more ideas, consider categories from the Common Good Matrix.	Final Version Work to discover unusual resources as well as evident ones. Finalize Project as a cooperative venture with resources and support organizations.
Project Partners pts Who would be your key partners or collaborators? Identify potential change champions, along with their current capability to realize change, and tactics people are using now to mitigate relevant problems. The class on alliances may be helpful as a reference.	Draft cycle 1 List organizations, individuals, groups and people with key pieces of information.	Draft cycle 2 Identify groups, oganizations and individuals who could support your project. Identify both professional and volunteer options.	Final Version Review and make creative changes to your project that develop synergies between various sources of human capital.
Project Evaluation Synthesize, review, and define your project.
Identify Potenital Barriers pts Write down known barriers to change. Consider constraints in terms of time, psychology, worldviews, money, infrastructure, etc.	Draft cycle 1 What kinds of barriers may emerge? -political -physical -infrastructure -capital investment -psychological -natural/ecological -institutional rigidity, etc	Draft cycle 2 How can you work to reduce barriers for your selected project? The class on circular economies, new possibilities, and psychology may be helpful here.	Final Version Clear anticipation of resources and potential challenges are addressed, and proposed solutions are grounded in reference to class materials.
Success Criteria pts The key indicators you will use to measure success (how you will measure "Project Benefits," above).	Draft cycle 1 How will you know if you have succeeded?	Draft cycle 2 Consider your expected benefits ("Project Benefits" in draft cycle 2, above). Get specific. How many people attend, participate, take action, etc.	Final Version Consult Reporting 3.0 for more ideas.
Communication Cycles pts How will you receive feedback about your effort? Feedback loops are especially important in adaptive management, agile development, and change innovation.	Draft cycle 1	Draft cycle 2 How will this project mimic an adaptive management technique or design thinking, where prototypes are developed and then feedback is received? (It's fine to imagine this occurring in the future.) A high level of awareness of culture and context is given to the action plan.	Final Version What kind of adjustments or changes could you foresee? What are the biggest unknowns in your project?
Project Submission The quality of your submitted work.
Written Components pts	Draft cycle 1 Initial ideas are recorded and evaluated (this does not have to be grammatically cohesive).	Draft cycle 2 The proposed innovation is directly linked to a defined sustainability goal and the response is grounded in research. Your draft of introductory text is engaging, states the problem, provides a context for the study, and previews the project’s structure.	Final Version Your project has strong communication in terms of organization, coverage of the topic, description of motivation/problem and approach/results, and visual appearance. References are exact with author, journal, volume number, page number, and year.
Project Visuals pts Use visual material to develop and explain project	Draft cycle 1 Find and develop images, diagrams, sketches to explain alternative projects.	Draft cycle 2 Use graphics & pictures appropriate to help expand and explain project specifics.	Final Version Develop various types of graphics and text, each selected to convey project goals, intentions, and implementation prototypes.
Teamwork (if applicable) pts Team members work cooperatively participate equally.	Draft cycle 1 All team members bring ideas, sketched or written, to meetings. Engage team in open discussion of project alternatives, listing all pros & cons.	Draft cycle 2 Each team member takes on some portion of the needed research. Teams support and encourage lateral thinking in themselves and their group.	Final Version Refine and build ideas as an individual and group effort. Each team member continues to research and bring written and sketched ideas for group consideration.
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