Enterprise Track
10 A-day students · self-enterprise & Bulldog Media · full year · capstone in May
These students run their own business or work for a school enterprise instead of going to an outside placement. With no site supervisor to evaluate them, Board Check-Ins are how they're held accountable and graded: they present to a real board, get scored on the rubric, and leave with commitments they report back on next time. Everything you need for that is on this page.
Materials
Everything for the Enterprise cohort in one place. All of these print cleanly on letter paper.
How Board Check-Ins work
A real investor-style update, run the same way every time so students know exactly what's coming.
| Why it exists | Replaces the site-supervisor evaluation. The board's score is the Enterprise cohort's Employer Feedback category (25% of the course grade), plus at least one client or advisor feedback form per grading period. |
| The board | Miss Savitski and Mr. Theriault, an administrator (Mr. Gamlin), and a community business partner. Rotate the guest seat so the board doesn't go stale. |
| Format | About 8 minutes of presentation and 5 minutes of board questions per student or team. Every founder speaks. |
| Students bring | Slide deck • financial statements (P&L, budget vs. actual, cash on hand) • a promises report on last check-in's commitments. |
| Scoring | Each board member fills out their own rubric. There are 8 domains, circled 4/3/2/1, for a total out of 32. Each member's total ÷ 8 gives a 4-point score, and those are averaged across the board. A 2+ level disagreement on any domain is talked through before the score is recorded. |
| The debrief | Right after, the board and student fill in side 2 together: glows, and 2–3 specific commitments with a due date. The student photographs it. Those commitments become the Promises Kept? rows on the next check-in's rubric. |
| Dates | #1 was Fri Sep 25. Remaining dates: TBA. The last check-in folds into the May capstone. |
Run of show
The checklist for each round.
- Send students the prep sheet and the date.
- Book the room and confirm the guest board member.
- Print one rubric per board member per student, two-sided.
- Copy each student's last commitments into the Promises Kept? rows. Skip this for Check-In #1.
- Brief the board on the scale and the slow-business rule above.
- During the pitch, take notes on side 2.
- Circle side 1 while the next student sets up.
- Talk through any 2+ level disagreements before moving on.
- Fill in glows and 2–3 commitments with the student.
- The student photographs side 2.
- Average the board's scores and enter them as Employer Feedback.
- Keep the sheets. They seed the next round's Promises Kept.
Capstone in May
Same three scored parts as the Placement cohort (1:30 Field Experience Spotlight talk on the Black Box stage, Field Experience Showcase station, and portfolio), with nine months of work behind it instead of four. The final Board Check-In folds into it rather than running separately. See the Capstone Rubric.
Bootcamp · Aug 13 – Sep 15 Done
Field Experience · Batavia High School · Enterprise Track