Serving English Language Learners Starts by Serving Teachers I stood in front of the classroom, testing guidelines in hand, as 17 sixth-grade studen…
Morning Meeting: Rooting the Day in Community and Social Justice Mara Gonzales ditched the “Would You Rather” questions in her Morning Meetings and now starts the day with discussions about recognizing privilege…
Quick Jots to Support Student Reading Independent reading is the reading students do that has potential …
Continuous Improvement in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Perspective Our topic was “close reading,” and when we were sharing strategies …
Building Empathy Through Action Teenager. What does that word make you think about? Do you think of recklessness and…
“Thou Talk’st of Nothing” In today’s media-saturated society, it can sometimes feel like a sisyphean feat to…
Every Classroom Should Be A Maker Space Early on, I held up published books ranging from 50 to approximately 150 pages. “This…
An Artful Thinking Classroom I projected the image onto the screen and gave my eighth grade students several quiet…
Reclaiming Stupidity Ken would prepare for his class weeks ahead of time, carefully experimenting and planning…
Autobots in Action Each autobot used a computer and an array of sensors to interact with its environment.
Ampersand: Making Sense of Internship In January 2009, in my sixth year teaching and fourth year at High Tech High Media Arts, I…
All the School’s a Stage Many people would rather die than put themselves onstage, so they are comfortably seated…
Remixing Education A TV satellite dish made of tin cans. A tattoo gun crafted out of a ballpoint pen and a rubber…
Outside the Lens “This exhibit shows you what we love about ourselves. We are all unique and have different…
Exhibition Blues In a shadow puppet play, the audience sees only shadows on a screen while the puppeteer’s…
In Over Our Heads “It began in a whirlwind,” she started. “After the first week, it became apparent to me…
Migration is Beautiful San Diego is located in a “biodiversity hotspot” home to thousands of endemic…
Drive-Thru Generation In this time of COVID19 and social distancing, we must consider our need for appropriately…
Nature Treasures from Land to Sea In this interdisciplinary project, Kindergarten students explored the diversity of San Di…
Quaranscene 9th grade Humanities students wrote playwriting scenes in response to their own experiences of quarantine.
Ease on Down the Road HTMMA partnered with different non-profits around San Diego to help spread their messages to the community.
Plant and Insect Life Cycles Second Graders became botanists and entomologists as they cared for and cultivated plant …
Matter That Matters Our goal was for students to understand how resources in our natural world acquire …
Here Now, Gone Tomorrow students created and published a children’s book detailing their chosen endangered …
