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Rutland Senior Endeavor

March 12, 2014

Dear Parents:

Rutland School is in it’s fifth year of Senior Projects. The goal of these projects is to better prepare your student for life after high school. Each graduating student will complete a Senior Endeavor Project; details of this project’s requirements and credit are noted in the Rutland School Handbook.

The purpose of the project is to allow students to demonstrate the knowledge and maturity they have gained during the course of their education. It must be a “learning stretch,” meaning that it must go beyond what one already knows or has experienced.

We will be introducing this project and the project expectations to your student beginning in March. In order to keep pace with the high expectations of today’s graduates our project expectations will be geared to meet each student’s interests.

You are invited to attend the Rutland Project Fair, which will be held Monday, March 24 from 6-8PM. The Class of 2014 during this evening will have on display this year’s Senior Projects. Projects are all highly individualized and should not be compared to one another. We invite you to see this year’s projects as examples of the projects expectations.

Your student may wish to begin his/her project over the summer; they will need permission from you and the faculty committee before they start work on their project.

Mrs. Lauren Olson lauren.olson@k12.sd.us Mrs. Kathleen Trower kathleen.trower@k12.sd.us

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