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Curation Creates Culture

Curating student work contributes to the school culture by valuing the students work and modeling high quality projects [read more]

Brent Spirnak

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College Acceptance Is Not Enough

Tips for your college team to get all college accepted seniors to the Fall semester [read more]

Sofía Tannenhaus

Improving Literacy in a Large Urban District

Alec talks to Amiee Winchester, director of continuous improvement at Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS), and Zack Jaffe, a manager [read more]

Alec Patton, Amiee Winchester, Zack Jaffe

Welcome to Unboxed Issue 27

What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? [read more]

Alec Patton

From The Current Issue

Craftivism

Craft activism to foster empathy, critical thinking, and civic engagement, encouraging students to express themselves on social issues through art [read more]

Gabrielle Gastelo, Tatyana Gray, Tavin Perry

Sometimes the Bias You Need to Disrupt is Your Own

I’m going to share with you how undertaking antiracist and antibias work with schools forced me to confront my own [read more]

Paula Espinoza

What if kids just copy the model?

The answer to this question is, literally and precisely, "I'd like to see them try." [read more]

Alec Patton

Young Voices: Superkids Speak

Students explored personal and inspirational forms of power through reflection, research, and creative storytelling. [read more]

Clara Mesaros, Melina Aguirre, Trevor Barton

Issue 27: Fall 2024

December, 2024

Improvement

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Don’t Grade Quizzes

A suggestion for improving formative assessment. [read more]

Alec Patton, Brent Spirnak

Providing Wise Feedback to Students

Effective teaching involves setting high expectations for students and providing them with the necessary support to meet those expectations, fostering [read more]

Curtis Taylor, Daisy Sharrock, Mari Jones, Ruth Smith, Yekaterina Milvidskaia

STEM

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Double Exposure

Students created their self portraits using hundreds of linear and quadratic equations. They then annotated their portrait by solving intersecting [read more]