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4 Attention-Getters That Work from Kindergarten to Grad School

Here is a paradox of teaching: if you want your classroom to be full of conversation and self-directed learning, you need to be able to quickly capture everybody’s focus. [read more]

Alec Patton

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How Exhibitions of Learning Came to Lincoln High School

Alec Patton talks to Lincoln High School Principal Melissa Agudelo about the challenges of bringing exhibitions of student learning to [read more]

Melissa Agudelo

Campus Connections at King Middle School

Principal Natalie Daniels and her team partnered with educators and community to develop a powerful two-day seminar and advisory program [read more]

Brent Spirnak

How to Teach Material that Doesn’t Fit into a Project

Students strengthen their learning by practicing skills that may not fit directly into a project but build the foundation for [read more]

Alec Patton

From The Current Issue

Love Languages for Educators

By learning to recognize the preferred ways in which people in your life understand love, you can better connect with [read more]

Erin Asselin, Linzi Golding

How to Start Continuous Improvement Without Stopping Everything

One of the key principles of continuous improvement is that you should spend a lot of time understanding a problem [read more]

Amiee Winchester, Zack Jaffe

Play It By Ear Project

Students partnered with the SoCal Beep Baseball Association to design soldered equipment to make the game more available. [read more]

David Garcia, Nathan Ewart

Convergence

Teachers plan meaningfully and rigorously in ways that allow the synergy of soft and hard skills to interact [read more]

Peter Jana

Issue 28: Spring 2025

May, 2025

Improvement

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From Concerns to Actions with the Huddle Routine

A routine for teams to follow to discuss students that are top of mind in order to increase belongingness in [read more]

Brittany Perro

Liberating Learning One District At a Time

In this episode, Dr. Michelle Sadrena Pledger, CORE Districts' Chief of Improvement David Montes de Oca, and Dr. Stacey Caillier [read more]

David Montes de Oca, Dr. Michelle Sadrena Pledger, Stacey Caillier

STEM

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Inventions

What would second graders invent to make the world a better place? A trash machine that ... [read more]

Diana Glover, Jeff Major, Marissa Funk

Illuminated Mathematics

Almost all of us have at some point taught something that was completely irrelevant to the... [read more]

Dave Stahnke

Education Accessibility

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Sometimes the Exhibition is at the Dinner Table

Who has the right to decide what should be taught in public schools?... [read more]

Jenny Morris, John Bosselman

On Schools of Education

No enterprise in American universities has been subject to more ridicule than those... [read more]

Theodore Sizer

Arts & Literacy

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Mystery Code Project

The Mystery Code Project was a collaboration between 11th grade English, math, and art ... [read more]

Nicole Hubbard, Pam Reynolds Baker

Writing on the Walls

Through this multidisciplinary project, students at HTH North County will explore and ... [read more]

Jenny Pieratt, Shani Leader

Leadership

Improving FAFSA Completion Rates

Ben Daley

Honoring the Students

Tony Simmons

Continuous Improvement: Teacher Induction

Alec Patton, Briony Chown, Julie Holmes, Julie Ruble, Ryan Gallagher, Stacey Caillier

Elementary

Logs From San Diego Bay

Tom Fehrenbacher

Fishbone Diagram Overview

Dr. Michelle Sadrena Pledger

We, Not They

Dr. Luke Wood

Middle School

Visions of Mathematics

Ben Daley

Destruction and Restoration: A History of Sausal Creek

José Garcia, Lindsay Weller

Wild Pond Protectors

Kari Shelton, Shelley Glenn Lee

High School

Breaking Free

Freddie Bermudez

OkCello: Music and Teaching Are About Conversation

Okorie Johnson

Aquaponic Garden: Food for Thought

Colleen Green, Mariah Mellinger

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