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Making Game Controllers Accessible to Everyone: A 6th Grade Project Story

Teachers Corey Clark, Curtis Taylor & Matt Gottilla designed the AbleGamerz Project…

Doing Lesson Study in Math

Alec Patton interviewed MAIC Director Daisy Sharrock, and Improvement Coaches …

Educational Video Games And Transdisciplinary PBL

The above scene occurred in a recent session of the Minecraft Mathematics Middle School…

The Case For Collaboration

Many have likened teaching to art. I think there’s something to that. Both are creative…

A Journey With Venetia Phair, The Girl Who Named Pluto

In British Primary, we were encouraged to follow our students’ interests in developing…

Writing “Downtown”: Student Voice in Teaching Writing

Like my students must do in their writing, I must attend to my audience. Using what I…

Thank You Tiger! My Teacher Wake Up Call

His dad had told him that he’d have a job with him as a bricklayer on the building…

Getting More Students Into College

A Foray Into Improvement Science

Logs From San Diego Bay

By the end of our first year together, our students produced a field guide, The Two…

Designing a Collaborative Learning Environment in Math

What do I want for my students? I want them to be active learners, able to ask questions…

72-Mile Classroom

From the crest at Volcan Mountain, to the coast at Dog Beach, lies the 72-mile classroom…

From Socratic Seminar to Space Science

I have been doing Socratic Seminars in my physics class long enough to know when they go…

Education, Expanded

The High Tech High system is a hotbed of intellectual thought on the topic of education,…

A Differentiated Lesson, A To Z

My students have a wide range of background knowledge in mathematics. They also process…

Deeper Learning In Common Core Math Projects

Would teachers continue to be able to personalize and bring in adult world connections through math…

Change Leadership For Learning

In this UnBoxed interview, Tony Wagner, first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology…

Correlation: Mathematics Instruction & Social Issues

Our school has an Advisory class twice a week.

Wild About Cramlington

Today, I want the 28 students I am working with to experience just enough failure to act…

Learning 2.0

Relatively little political energy is spent consciously designing a contemporary system of…

Illuminated Mathematics

Almost all of us have at some point taught something that was completely irrelevant to the…

Science Room as Drawing Room

What students find daunting in Biology is not so much the concepts, but the amount…

Exhibiting Student Writing

Exhibitions of student learning, with their many projects, activities, and associated banter, can take on the atmosphere of a science fair or a grand opening at an art gallery.

Going Against the Zeitgeist

I can still clearly remember the time when I hated science…

Sunflowers and Math

I don’t recall how long our class spent working on the art pieces or what we did before…

Canyon as Classroom

In the summer of 2010, I was considering a job as a science teacher at a small private…

The Agony and The Ecstasy (of Math)

This is mathematics, he argues in A Mathematician’s Lament (2009), in all its elegance and…

Writing About Math

First, as in any subject, writing about math forces students to articulate their thoughts…

Family Mathers

Traditionally, math homework does not generate much enthusiasm, but the implementation of…

Judo Math

Some kids go through material fast, while others need more time. But in most math classes…

Visions of Mathematics

“What is our vision for mathematics at High Tech High?” It is my belief that there is quite…