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Dr. Michelle Pledger’s Rodeo Days

This is a special bonus episode. The jury's out on whether it's "educational" but this is not a story you want to miss. [read more]
  • Dr. Michelle Sadrena-Pledger

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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
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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
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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

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Improvement from Scratch

School operation teams, the backbone of making the school day happen across the country, are often invisible. With little acknowledgement [read more]
  • Garett Brownlee Plantz
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Tales and Test Tubes

Twelfth grade students developed science based bilingual novels with elementary students [read more]
  • Joaquín Ramírez Ramírez
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On Our Tables

Students deepened their understanding of food's impact on health, values, and the environment, fostering critical thinking through exploring food production, [read more]
  • John Santos, Pat Holder
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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

Issue 26: Spring 2024

June, 2024

Improvement

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Improving FAFSA

Improving FAFSA Completion Rates

We are attempting to represent the findings of a major Continuous Improvement project ... [read more]
  • Ben Daley
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C3 Mobility

College students lead and engage with high school students to provide mentorship for the college transition [read more]
  • Ben Sanoff, Cielo Cruz, Jonathan Villafuerte, Julio Garcia-Granados, Sofía Tannenhaus

STEM

See all STEM content

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Electioneering Part 1: Teaching Redistricting

Teacher Mele Sato explains how she got students excited about congressional ... [read more]
  • Alec Patton, Mele Sato
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Science Friction

The goal of Science Friction was to help students understand that physics is all around ... [read more]
  • Alfred Solis, Jenny Pieratt, Shani Leader

Education Accessibility

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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
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Banishing Awkward Silence from Breakout Rooms

Alec talks to 7th grade math and science teacher Kat Wu about how the kids in her team ... [read more]
  • Kat Wu

Arts & Literacy

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Town Squares: A San Diego Neighborhoods Project

Students at HTM are selected through a lottery system and come from every zip code in ... [read more]
  • Gary Gould, Maggie Miller, Mary Williams
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“Nobody dresses like that here”

Jean and Alec talk to artist, community activist, entrepreneur and Dean of High Tech High Chula Vista [read more]
  • Alec Patton, Enrique Lugo, Jean Catubay

Leadership

Honoring the Students

  • Tony Simmons

Permission to Wonder: Using Art to Deepen Learning

  • Philip Yenawine

Project Tuning Protocol

  • Brent Spirnak, Kelly Jacob, Sarah Casiato

Elementary

The House That Built Me

  • Michelle Jaconette

Let’s Go Fly a Kite

  • Dani Phillips, Meg Hassey

Rock On! A Virtual Reality Geology Project

  • Kari Shelton

Middle School

Time for Connection

  • Amanda Green

Self Portrait Relief Prints

  • Meredith Frederick

AbleGamerz Project Overview

  • Corey Clark, Curtis Taylor, Matt Gottilla

High School

Preparing students to Understand, Discuss, and Dismantle Racism

  • Alec Patton, Ayo Magwood, Jean Catubay

The Upcycle Project

  • David Berggren, Patrick Holder

Energy Puzzles

  • Don Mackay

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