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What Did You Learn in School?

This is a story about the lessons White boys learn in school. Or at least it’s about what I learned in school- about race and class and gender and what we do or don’t owe each other. [read more]

Garrett Bucks

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How I Planned a Project Using Chat GPT

Middle School teacher Sean Gilley explains how he uses Chat GPT to share the load on project planning, so he [read more]

Sean Gilley

Dance Dance Reconstruction

I never intended to become an advocate for teaching history in elementary school; it’s something that just sort of happened... [read more]

Michelle Jaconette

Know Thyself

Students learned about mathematical patterns like the Golden ratio and how it can be discovered in nature, art, architecture, and [read more]

Brittany Perro, Chris Olivas, Joseph Acker

From The Current Issue

(In)Equity by Design

Sixth graders explored data related to their own phenotype data through the lens of major moments in U.S. history. [read more]

Matt Chapman, Shelby Sember, Vanessa Medellin

How to Codesign with Students

During our seven years as High Tech High students—and eventually, student leaders in the Student Ambassador program—we worked alongside our [read more]

Eliana Meza-Ehlert, Shreena Bhakta

Streetlights

Students researched neighborhoods and designed lamps that represented each [read more]

Chris Mutter, Jesus Carrillo, Sabrina Salvatierra

Going Beyond The Equity Pause: The CARPE Student Fellowship

So you want to involve students in your improvement work. Where do you start? Naturally, most improvers will begin by [read more]

Sofía Tannenhaus

Issue 23: Fall 2022

December, 2022

Improvement

Struggling with Improvement? Try a Planned Experiment!

Ben Daley recommends "planned experiments" as a means of inquiry and an alternative to the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle [read more]

Ben Daley

If it doesn’t work for teachers, it doesn’t work

Alec talks to Dr. Simon Breakspear about how he developed his "Teaching Sprints" program ... [read more]

Alec Patton, Dr. Simon Breakspear

STEM

Intentional Integration: Technology Choices for Teachers

Technology is no longer an occasional variation in a paper based learning environment. Increasingly, the laptop is the learning environment. [read more]