Submit Section 4.4 Assignment 6: Review Independent Study Rubric (include attestation)
This grading rubric serves as a guide for evaluating the independent study portion of the Community Garden Leadership Program (CGL). The independent study project serves as a way for current cohort members to demonstrate their leadership ability, and apply tools that they learned throughout the year-long program. Participant scores will reflect the community impact of their projects and will be evaluated based on the following criteria.
Please note: Participants who earn 10 of the available 16 points will earn at program certificate.
Scoring Key
| Exceeds Requirements | Meets Requirements | Meets most Requirements | Meets few Requirements | Incomplete |
Total available Points (per section) | 4 – Community Impact | 3 – Diverse Community Engagement | 2 – Scale and Growth | 1 - Completion | 0 |
Stakeholder Engagement
An element of your project meaningfully engages your community garden stakeholders. For this project, stakeholders include neighbors, partners, volunteers, members or other garden leaders.
Score Ranking | Point Justification |
1 | Completed community outreach and attempted to engage new or existing stakeholder groups |
2 | Earned a 1, plus engaged one stakeholder group at any point during the planning, implementation or evaluation phase of the independent study project. |
3 | Earned a 2, plus you engaged an additional stakeholder group. |
4 | Earned a 3, plus you engaged two or more stakeholder groups at multiple times during the planning, implementation or evaluation phase of the independent study project. |
Community Impact/Responding to Community Need
Your project should be inspired by and respond to the needs of your local community that you identify in you project proposal, and address throughout the independent study.
Score Ranking | Point Justification |
1 | Project clearly identifies a community need and attempts to address it |
2 | Earned a 1, plus you develop a recordkeeping system to capture community impact |
3 | Earned a 2, plus you develop an evaluation technique to measure community impact |
4 | Earned a 3, plus you successfully address the community need, and seek feedback from stakeholder groups as part of the evaluation process |
Garden Sustainability
Your project should contribute to the sustainability of your community garden. Consider these two questions: How are you telling the story of your community garden and How am I making my garden more resilient/sustainable with this project? Your independent study should be mission-aligned and highlight the benefits of your community garden as well as encourage more community support for your garden initiative.
Score Ranking | Point Justification |
1 | Your project answers the two questions above. |
2 | Earned a 1, plus you identify how the project benefits the garden long term |
3 | Earned a 2, plus you include success metrics for both the project, and for the garden long-term |
4 | Earned a 3, plus you develop new systems, processes, policies or infrastructure to sustain this project |
Peer-to-Peer Presentations
The peer-to-peer presentations are an opportunity to share your project with other members of your cohort. Your presentation should be complete with graphics or images, and include details about the planning, implementation and evaluation phases of your independent study projects.
Score Ranking | Point Justification |
1 | Submitted project proposal and presentation outline on time. |
2 | Earned a 1, plus you presented your independent study to a group of your peers |
3 | Earned a 2, plus you include visuals as part of your presentation and details about the planning, implementation and evaluation phases of the project |
4 | Earned a 3, plus you included interactive elements during the presentation to engage the audience |
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