Issue 19: Fall 2020 Welcome to the Fall 2020 issue of Unboxed, which focuses on “Continuous Improvement” in education.
Doing Lesson Study in Math Alec Patton interviewed MAIC Director Daisy Sharrock, and Improvement Coaches ...
We’re About All Kids, and All Kids Being Successful The percentage of seniors who completed their FAFSA forms at ...
Improving FAFSA Completion Rates We are attempting to represent the findings of a major Continuous Improvement project ...
Culturally Responsive Continuous Improvement In the fall of 2019, I was entering my third year as an Induction Coach ...
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 ...
Bringing Continuous Improvement to High Tech High’s Teacher Induction Program California’s credentialing structure is a two-step approach ...
Ten Lessons Learned about Building Improvement Networks that Work In the midst of a national reckoning with centuries of racial injustice ...
2:09 – Banishing Awkward Silence from Breakout Rooms Alec talks to 7th grade math and science teacher Kat Wu about how the kids in her team ...
2:07 – “If it doesn’t work for teachers, it doesn’t work” Alec talks to Dr. Simon Breakspear about how he developed his "Teaching Sprints" program ...
2:04 – Screen Time: How Remote Learning Feels to Students In this special guest episode from This Teenage Life students talk about how it feels to ...
2:03 – “How to Teach Us” and how students found real data Sixth grade students at High Tech Middle North County write a book for teachers on how ...
1:20 – John Santos: “Rigor” shouldn’t mean “some kids fail” Biology Teacher John Santos breaks down what's wrong with how we grade (and a simple ...
1:17 – Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang: Meaning-making Makes Us In this episode of the High Tech High Unboxed podcast, Nuvia Ruland interviews ...
1:14 – Continuous Improvement: Teacher Induction This episode is about how High Tech High transformed its teacher induction program to . . .
Exhibition Voices Students from middle to high school share their learning at Exhibition in December of 2019.
1:12 – LeDerick Horne: Separate is not Equal in Special Ed. In this episode, Alec talks to spoken-word poet and disability rights advocate Lederick ...
High Tech High Design Principles High Tech High is guided by four connected design principles—equity, personalization . . .
1:10 – Ben Daley on Continuous Improvement Alec talks to Ben Daley, President of High Tech High’s Graduate School of Education.
We are tight on the HOW of planning not the WHAT High Tech High teachers focus on the "how" of teaching and not the "what".
1:06 – Joe Truss Tackles White Supremacy in School In this episode of the High Tech High Unboxed podcast, Alec spoke to Joe Truss ...
1:05 – Ron Berger on Beautiful Lessons & “No Lesson” Alec Patton talks to Ron Berger about what he's learned about teaching literacy in ...
Cycles of Reflection How might students and teachers engage in cycles of reflection in order to grow as . .
Doing the Project Yourself: Teaching Writing… In the world of project-based learning, prototypes are necessary for success...
Making Critique Work… I introduced critique to my class after reading Ron Berger’s manifesto, An Ethic of...
