| Do you know my child’s interests and talents? |
| Does the school help students form relationships with adults and peers who might serve as models, mentors, and coaches concerning their career interests? |
| Does the school help students build relationships in the school community and in out-of-school communities? |
| Does you take students’ interests, particularly career interests, into account in designing learning opportunities? |
| Does the school help students to understand how their learning and work contribute to their communities and to the world? |
| Do you provide real choices about what, when, and how my child will learn and demonstrate their competence? |
| Do you help students make good choices about their learning and work? |
| Do you help students understand real-world standards of quality in learning and work? |
| Does the learning opportunities the school provide address high and meaningful standards of excellence? |
| Is the learning and work you require regarded as significant outside school by their communities of practice and by experts, family members, and employers? |
| Does the community recognize the value of my child’s work? |
| Do you provide my child with opportunities to apply what they are learning in real-world settings and contexts? |
| Do you provide opportunities to contribute to addressing challenges in their communities and the world? |
| Do you provide opportunities to explore—and to make mistakes and learn from them—without being branded as failures? |
| Do you provide students with opportunities to tinker, experiment, and speculate? |
| Do you provide my child with opportunities to engage in deep and sustained practice of the skills they need to learn? |
| Do you coach my child in practicing correctly? |
| Do you provide my child with sufficient time to learn at her own pace? |
| Does the school help students allocate sufficient time for their learning--to go deep as well as broad? |
| Do you allow my child to pursue their learning out of the standard sequence? |
| Does the school help my child determine what is the right time for pursuing a project or taking a course? |
