Alec talks to Partners in School Innovation CEO Derek Mitchell and Executive Director of California Academy of Sciences Scott Sampson about what “regenerative education” is, and why the world needs it right now.
“I am a teacher and I routinely make positive phone calls home,” said Laura. “But their power really hit home when my son’s teacher called me to tell me something great he did at school. I was worried that he was flying under the radar, but she noticed and that call brought me to tears.”
This is one in a trio of articles that provide tried-and-tested, actionable advice for community partnerships in school. This article focuses on internship. You should also check out the other articles, on service learning and externship.
This is one in a trio of articles that provide tried-and-tested, actionable advice for community partnerships in school. This article focuses on externship. You should also check out the other articles, on internship and service learning.
Alec talks to Waverly Zhao and David Lee, co-founders of Iowa WTF, about what it took to organize a state-wide school walkout in response to anti-Gay legislation in 2023
Alec talks to Waverly Zhao and David Lee, co-founders of Iowa WTF, an organization founded by Iowa High School students in response to state laws restricting what they could talk about in schools.
Peter Deswood is Assistant Superintendent of the Central Consolidated School District, in Northwestern New Mexico. He’s also a member of the Navajo nation, and he talks to Alec about why that’s important to his students, and to him.
Navajo teacher Bernita Bedah teaches a bilingual kindergarten class in Navajo and English. She talks to Alec about why that’s important for her students, and her community.
This is a story about the lessons White boys learn in school. Or at least it’s about what I learned in school- about race and class and gender and what we do or don’t owe each other.
This is a guest episode from Taking Off the Mask, a podcast that provides men a space to have conversations about life, challenges, joys, heartbreak, dreams, failures, and whatever is ready to be revealed.
The past years of the pandemic has made it difficult for students to connect with each other, which is essential for their growth and development, and as teachers, it’s important to provide opportunities for them to connect peer-to-peer despite the limited time.
Eduard is the Director-General of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, the chair of the center for UNESCO in Catalonia. And this is striking because Eduard did really, really badly in school, but he thrived in scouting…
15-year veteran math teacher, Sarah Strong, and her high school student, Gigi Butterfield, get into why kids hate math (at least some of them), and what to do about it.
Sarah Strong talks to Cate Challen about the book she co-authored with High Tech High graduate Gigi Butterfield (class of ’21), “Dear Math: Why Kids Hate Math and What Teachers Can Do About It”
High Tech High Chula Vista director Edrick Macalaguim shares what he’s learned about building and restoring classroom culture from over 20 years working in schools
A liberated curriculum is a curriculum that represents, elevates, honors, and integrates all young peoples’ cultural and linguistic backgrounds and cultural ways of being.
Sixth Grade DJs DJ Dice and DJ Rose play their favorite clips for Alec, and give advice on running a youth radio show along with one of their teachers, Alex Owens.
It’s got me thinking about how much of my media diet consists of stories of either “well-intentioned people who ended up making things worse for interesting reasons,” or “ill-intentioned people who made things worse for predictable reasons,” and how little time I spend with stories of people succeeding at making some bit of the world a bit more fair, humane, and livable for everybody in it.
When her work for the Gates Foundation brought her to Beijing, Yinuo Li couldn’t find a school she was excited to send her kids to, so she founded one.
The honors biology pathways allowed students to develop relationships and no part of school felt more absent during distance learning than relationships.
We try our best to make Unboxed a jargon-free zone, but there are invariably a few words that may be unfamiliar. We’ve done our best to define them here!
We try our best to make Unboxed a jargon-free zone, but there are invariably a few words that may be unfamiliar. We’ve done our best to define them here!
For teachers, the end of every year feels like the conclusion of a quest: you’re physically and mentally exhausted, you feel deeply bonded with your traveling companions, and as you look back you recall your feats of courage, dexterity, and cunning, as well as your questionable choices, missed opportunities, and all the people you wish you had done more to help.
In this first-ever retrospective issue of the journal, we showcase a range of previously-published articles which tackle the topic of literacy, along with a new interview with an educator who has been deeply influential to High Tech High schools.
One of the main intentions for students to visit local and national parks was to empathize with their user. Another intention from the teachers was for students to interact with nature on another level. The students practiced mindfulness activities and journaling while on their fieldwork experiences.
The park users for this project were the audience for the products students created. Finding community partners was a major part of developing an authentic project and the planning for such occurred well before the project began.
In light of the recent National Park closures, students explored how people use parks to connect to themselves, each other, and to nature. Students used the design thinking process to create a product that preserved and enhanced a local, state, or national park. They visited various parks to do field work for their products as well as experienced “peak moments” that often occur when immersed in nature.
The fishbone diagram is a root cause tool that identifies many possible causes for an effect or problem. It can be used to structure a brainstorming session and immediately sorts ideas into useful categories.
