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They Have a Point…

I want to tell you a story. It’s a story about innovation. It’s a story about improvement. It’s a story about equity. [read more]

Ben Daley

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Classroom Design for Busy People: Make a “Tribute Wall”!

As a new teacher, I faced the same dilemma every fall: What to put on the walls of my classroom? [read more]

Brad Blue

Healing Through Movement

Students designed deck graphics that intersected skateboarding and mental health [read more]

Carl Landegger

Exhibitions Photo Gallery

A gallery of exhibition images to inspire your next exhibition of student learning! [read more]

Unboxed Staff

From The Current Issue

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

The Route To School Improvement Is Hiding In Plain Sight

“You know how you can tell you’re in a happy school within 30 seconds of walking through the front door?” [read more]

David Price

Back to the Beginning: Exploring Origin Myths

Students chose a natural phenomenon in San Diego and developed an origin myth for that place [read more]

Daniela Torres, Rose Reiken

How My Community Functions

Students take an in depth look at their own neighborhoods with math as the lens for understanding [read more]

Mele Sato

Issue 26: Spring 2024

June, 2024

Improvement

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Equity Stances

Stacey Caillier

Don’t Grade Quizzes

A suggestion for improving formative assessment. [read more]

Alec Patton, Brent Spirnak

STEM

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A Kindergarten Geology Project You Should Know About

Rosemarie Biocarles-Rydeen talks to Alec about "Everybody Needs a Rock", the kindergarten geology project she designed and ran at High [read more]

Rosemarie Biocarles-Rydeen

Conceptual Art Project

When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and ... [read more]

Amy Callahan

Education Accessibility

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High Tech High Design Principles

Personalization—High Tech High schools foster student engagement by knowing students well ... [read more]

Larry Rosenstock, Rob Riordan

Brandy Williams: Doing School for Exceptional Learners

In this episode, Alec talks to educator Brandy Williams who realized she needed to start a school where kids like [read more]

Alec Patton, Brandy Williams

Arts & Literacy

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Music to Literacy

Sam Seidel, director of K12 strategy and research at Stanford d. School, tells the ... [read more]

Brent Spirnak, Samuel Steinberg Seidel

What I Didn’t Say Puppet Project

This blacklight neon puppet show started with the essential question: “Is there a moment in your life when you wished [read more]

Fernando Vega

Leadership

Disability & Identity

Brent Spirnak, LeDerick Horne

Stephanie Hall-Powell: School is about Relationships

Alec Patton, Stephanie Hall-Powell

Change Leadership For Learning

Tony Wagner

Elementary

Going back to Kindergarten with Kemp Harris

Kemp Harris, Sarah Fine

Rock Stars, Eggs, and Teaching

Joanna Collazo

Rock On! A Virtual Reality Geology Project

Kari Shelton

Middle School

Moral Courage Project

Deanna Driscoll

The Chimera Project

Isaac Stanford

Call Sign: Courage

Chris Olivas, Kelly Jacob, Max Cady

High School

Turning Points, Toy Theatre

Margaret Noble, Rachel Nichols

Banishing Awkward Silence from Breakout Rooms

Kat Wu

Viva La Revolucion!

Manuel Paul Lopez, Patrick Holder

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