A staff member for Paradise Valley Unified District (4241) described DAPSTONE as a yearlong capstone project for DAPST seniors in which students choose a topic and manage a real-life project for the school year.

The staff member said, “The DAPPS stone is a capstone project for the DAPST seniors, so we've mashed up the words and call it the DAPSTONE. It's a passion project where our students select a topic to explore for the entire school year. It really is anything that students can, dream it to be. The DAPSTONE project is important because it gives kids full and total control over their learning and their education during the course of their senior year. The individualized portion of this project is all about them setting their goals, setting their benchmarks, solving problems, managing a real life project.”

District staff presented the project as individualized and student-directed: students set goals and benchmarks, solve problems and manage the project across the senior year. The staff member framed DAPSTONE as emphasizing student choice and project management skills rather than prescribing a single topic or format.

No formal actions, votes, funding amounts or policy decisions about the DAPSTONE project were recorded in the transcript excerpt provided. The description in the meeting was informational.