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Focus on the “How” of Planning Not Just the “What”
Visitors to High Tech High often misconstrue its approach to planning as “loose” or “anything goes” compared to traditional schools, [read more]
Student-led Crew
Try Stuff was a hit! Crew advisors were thrilled to hand over some of the facilitation, and students came up [read more]
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Empathy Interviews Protocol
Learn about the problem from a user’s perspective to gain a deeper understanding of a user’s experience of the issue [read more]
An Improvement Project Tackling Chronic Absenteeism
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Ferdinand T. Day (FTD), a Title 1 elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, noticed an alarming increase [read more]
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How We Put On A High School Music Festival
We came up with the idea of planning and putting on a music festival. We looked at each other, paused, [read more]
Making Critique Work.
I introduced critique to my class after reading Ron Berger’s manifesto, An Ethic of... [read more]
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72-Mile Classroom
From the crest at Volcan Mountain, to the coast at Dog Beach, lies the 72-mile classroom... [read more]
A Differentiated Lesson, A To Z
My students have a wide range of background knowledge in mathematics. They also process... [read more]
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Writing About Math
First, as in any subject, writing about math forces students to articulate their thoughts... [read more]
The Agony and The Ecstasy (of Math)
This is mathematics, he argues in A Mathematician’s Lament (2009), in all its elegance and... [read more]
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The Politics of Assessment
Assessments such as exhibitions and internships are intrinsically authentic but are few... [read more]
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of a Successful School Project
“Human history is punctuated by the prolific rise and inevitable collapse of... [read more]
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Remixing Education
A TV satellite dish made of tin cans. A tattoo gun crafted out of a ballpoint pen and a rubber... [read more]
Exhibition Blues
In a shadow puppet play, the audience sees only shadows on a screen while the puppeteer’s... [read more]
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Deconstructing Construction Projects
Last spring I was standing in my fifth-grade classroom, mid-project, rearranging student groups when I realized we had a problem. [read more]
Rock On! A Virtual Reality Geology Project
A fourth grader from High Tech elementary North County stood inside a crater of an extinct volcano. He contemplated where [read more]
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Throwing a Shoe Every Day
It was first period, on the first day of seventh grade. Twenty of us sat fidgeting in... [read more]
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Choosing Sean
Deeper learning experiences are needed by our students today. Right now. This very... [read more]
The Power of My Mistakes
Below I discuss three times in the past year when I have tried my own projects. In each case, I [read more]