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How Iowa WTF organized a state-wide school walkout

Alec talks to Waverly Zhao and David Lee, co-founders of Iowa WTF, about what it took to organize a state-wide school walkout in response to anti-Gay legislation in 2023 [read more]

Alec Patton, David Lee, Waverly Zhao

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Self-Assessment Strategies for Students

How can assessment practices be designed to best support student learning? In school, the term “assessment” is often shorthand for [read more]

Sarah Strong

Kicking A** by Taking Names, with Ben Daley

Alec talks to High Tech High Graduate School of Education president Ben Daley about one of the most powerful (and [read more]

Alec Patton, Ben Daley

Emerging Entomologists

First graders worked as naturalists to connect the community to the ants that share our environment [read more]

Jamelle Jones, Kari Shelton, Miranda Colvin, Sandy Giang

From The Current Issue

Schools as Equitable Communities of Inquiry

We wrote this chapter several years ago, in response to a request from the Sitra Foundation in Finland that we [read more]

Rob Riordan, Stacey Caillier

Your Classroom Isn’t An Island

My fourth-grade classroom was covered in cardboard boxes. The entire back wall was piled high with donated boxes. The tables [read more]

Carly Oto

Behind The Scenery

Students learned the history and biodiversity of the land to become documentarians of new stories [read more]

David Roney, Emily Usaha, Meghan Paddy

Exploring Internship Opportunities

Thirty potential mentors from local organizations, nonprofits and businesses were sitting across tables facing dozens of eleventh-grade students. [read more]

Stephanie Antin

Issue 26: Spring 2024

June, 2024

Improvement

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Weaving Equity Work & Improvement Work

Adelric McCain (Network for College Success) and Xiomara Padamsee (Promise 54) explore the intersections of equity and improvement while sharing [read more]

Adelric McCain, Xiomara Padamsee

Improvement as Teacher Empowerment

Stacey Caillier interviews math teacher Janet Hanshaw and instructional coach Joanna Burt-Kinderman, both of West Virginia, about the Mountaineer Mathematics [read more]