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Students should build something on day one of the project

Veteran teacher Andrew Lerario talks to Alec about "sharing the cognitive load" with students, and treating the project as a shared journey you go on together. He also talks about doing rocket science with high schoolers. [read more]

Andrew Lerario

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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 [read more]

Ben Daley

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

If the Work Matters, Every Child’s Work Matters

Alec talks to the XP Trust's Chief Academic Officer, Andy Sprakes, about how XP schools make sure every child's work [read more]

Alec Patton, Andy Sprakes

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How I Planned a Project Using ChatGPT

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

Sean Gilley

The Great Ceramicist Throw Down

Students learned from local ceramics artists to make their own creations [read more]

Gabrielle DuThinh Clark

Lightning In A Bottle: The Al Qamar School Story

“Paagalon ka school” (“School for lunatics”), “The Motley Crew’, “The Rag-Tag Army” were the not-so-flattering epithets the community used to [read more]

Aneesa Jamal

Learning Behind the Lens

A student reflection on collaborative project work [read more]

Drew Nelles

Issue 24: Spring 2023

June, 2023

Improvement

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Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford & Dr. Luke Wood Gates at CoP NSI

Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford and Dr. Luke Wood in conversation about liberation and improvement [read more]

Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, Dr. Luke Wood

Improvement Norms

Curtis Taylor

STEM

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Doing Lesson Study in Math

Alec Patton interviewed MAIC Director Daisy Sharrock, and Improvement Coaches ... [read more]

Curtis Taylor, Daisy Sharrock, Katerina Milvidskaia

Pinhole Photography

Students built pinhole cameras and took black-and-white photos, which they then ... [read more]

Rachel Ching

Education Accessibility

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Dr. Margo Vreeburg Izzo: Special Education Online

In this episode, Alec talks to Dr. Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Program Director of Transition ... [read more]

Alec Patton, Dr. Margo Vreeburg Izzo

Deeper Learning and Equity

What does it take to do both? [read more]

Emily Klein, Meg Riordan

Arts & Literacy

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The Lost Postcard Collection

How do you think Odysseus feels during his journey? Is Odysseus a hero by modern standards? [read more]

Angela (Angie) Guerrero, Breawna Power

The Creative Masters Project

In The Creative Masters Project, students select a creative Spanish-speaker from any ... [read more]

Tom Gaines

Leadership

What Does it Mean to Think Like a Teacher?

Cindy Meyer Sabik

Building Off of Student Strengths

Brent Spirnak, Carlos Moreno

Collegial Coaching

Angela (Angie) Guerrero, April Major

Elementary

Sunflowers and Math

Brittany Joslin

Liberty Station: Then and Now

Jami Saville, Janna Steffan, Ruby Rodrigues

ANIMON

Connie Tosaya, Gigi Neidiffer, Kari Shelton, Nicole Ramirez, Rina Vinetz

Middle School

Walk In Their Shoes

Heather Calabro

Throwing a Shoe Every Day

Lillian Hsu

Colonies, Clusters, and Classrooms?

Chelsea Pasfield, Grace Kegley, Shelby Fuentes

High School

“We’re about ALL kids, and ALL kids being successful”

Adriana Lepe-Ramirez, Alec Patton

Children’s Astronomy Book Project

Aaron Commerson, Juli Ruff

Preparing students to Understand, Discuss, and Dismantle Racism

Alec Patton, Ayo Magwood, Jean Catubay

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