As part of the first Innovation Institute, our middle school cohort consisting of Susannah, Sherezada, Dave and Matt took on the challenge designing the weekly block of time that will be designated for individual student exploration.  Our initial prototyping dealt with testing out the process through which students will determine their topic of exploration.  We brought in 3 middle school students to test our initial ideas. Here is a video recap:

You can view our slide show presentation here.