Students at HES can be found daily working in collaborative groups across all curriculum areas. Groups are set up with specific expectations that ensure all students have a job to complete that is crucial to the success of the team.  Students jobs are posted and easy for teachers and students to reference throughout the activities.  Students also have name tags that include their job title and a  description of their role.  On the back of the nametags students have sentence stems for what their job sounds like that can be used when talking to their teammates. Many teachers use small STEM challenges at the beginning of the year to focus more on teaching group roles and expectations.  Throughout the year teachers include a group work activator to lessons to continue teaching students how to successfully work in groups.  As students learn to work in teams and get more familiar with the expectations there is a gradual release from teacher grouping to student grouping.  Teachers use a rubric to assess PBL’s.  This rubric has many components including the use of the engineering process and completed plan, student collaboration, and the outcome.  The outcome may be graded based on the student’s data charts or future plans for improvement instead of project outcome.