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How to do Student-Centered Assessment

In Student-Centered assessment the students first reflect and then receive feedback from peers, teachers, community, and experts to fully develop their projects. [read more]

Brent Spirnak

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Improving College Transfer Enrollment with NASH’s Juliette Price

Alec Patton talks to Juliette Price, the senior Improvement Science coach at the National Association of Higher Education Systems, about [read more]

Alec Patton, Juliette Price

Welcome to Unboxed Issue 28

In my forties, I have taken up two possibly ill-advised pursuits: skateboarding and indoor rock climbing. [read more]

Alec Patton

We Have All This Data, Now What?

Too often when teachers get data, they don’t know what to do with it. At the University of Chicago Middle [read more]

Jennifer Ciok, Naomi Wilfred

From The Current Issue

Convergence

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

Peter Jana

How Schools Are Using Identity Questions to Improve Literacy

ELA teachers asked students to connect their personal and cultural identity to the academic content at key junctures in their [read more]

Jacobē Bell, Reshma Ramkellawan

Tackling Chronic Absenteeism

Tracking absences quarterly allows schools to spot trends and changes faster, whether they be something to celebrate or a student [read more]

Erin Asselin, Linzi Golding, Melanie Gonzalez

Student-led Advisory

Try Stuff was a hit! Crew advisors were thrilled to hand over some of the facilitation, and students came up [read more]

Hannah Read

Issue 28: Spring 2025

May, 2025

Improvement

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Chain of Whys

When digging into the root of your problem, use a chain of whys to go deeper. [read more]

Dr. Michelle Sadrena Pledger

Fishbone Protocol Workbook

Protocol to engage in the fishbone diagram [read more]

Julia Jacobsen

STEM

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Science Room as Drawing Room

What students find daunting in Biology is not so much the concepts, but the amount... [read more]

Parag Chowdhury

Ideation

Kristin Komatsubara, Math/Science teacher, discusses the advantages of students ... [read more]

Brent Spirnak, Kristin Komatsubara

Education Accessibility

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What Matters Most to Latitude during Lockdown

Alec talks to Lillian Hsu and John Bosselman, of Latitude High School in Oakland about ... [read more]

Alec Patton, John Bosselman, Lillian Hsu

Supporting Mental Health as We Return to The Classroom

Alec talks to psychologist Cat Magielnicki about her advice for helping kids return to classrooms [read more]

Alec Patton, Cat Magielnicki

Arts & Literacy

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Video Portrait Project

Students created a digital video portrait of themselves using one of their personal poems written in English class [read more]

Victor De La Fuente

Exhibition Blues

In a shadow puppet play, the audience sees only shadows on a screen while the puppeteer’s... [read more]

John Fisher

Leadership

How to Bring Your Full Artistic Self to School

Aysha Upchurch, Dr. Michelle Sadrena Pledger, Enrique Lugo

Power Lunch

Rebecca Smith

Radical Love—Caring For Ourselves and Community

Aisha Bain, Manasa Yeturu

Elementary

Cause for Paws

Bailey Kleis, Jeff Govoni, Jenny Merrill

The Great Ceramicist Throw Down

Gabrielle DuThinh Clark

A Kindergarten Geology Project You Should Know About

Rosemarie Biocarles-Rydeen

Middle School

CARE Network — High Tech Middle North County

Brittany Perro

Stars in the Parks: Design Thinking

Brittany Perro, Charley Jacob, Chris Olivas

Culture in the first two weeks of school (and after)

Alec Patton, Edrick Macalaguim

High School

Wall of Resistance Project

Jenny Morris, John Bosselman

Coded Structures, Decoded Identities

Margaret Noble, Rachel Nichols, Samara Francisco

Welcoming New Members Through Design Thinking

Corey Topf, Joseph Bonnici, William Cotter

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