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What does literacy mean in the 21st century? Why does literacy matter for students?

How do we create meaningful, equitable, deeper learning...for our teachers? This is the question that two of our contributors tackle.

As educators, how do we learn? What is the difference between planning the next project or lesson and learning? How do we learn from each others’ “craft knowledge” and encourage all voices in our school communities to be both teachers and learners?

What happens when teachers build a rich foundation and then let students take charge of their own learning?

Four of our contributors reflect on the impact of student-teacher relationships and the importance of honoring student voice and building trust in order to create that safe space needed for students to take risks and grow.

Welcome to another issue of UnBoxed! We hope you will enjoy this collection of essays, reflections and reports about passion, purpose and practice in education.

Three of our contributors offer lively classroom reflections about instructional design.

What does it mean to design instruction for deep, engaged learning? How do our students experience these efforts?

In April 2013 High Tech High hosted a conference sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, bringing together educators interested in “deeper learning,”

In this issue we return to themes of adult learning and collegiality in schools. Katie Morrison and Matt Swanson describe an environment where interdisciplinary collaboration leads naturally to collaboration with artists and experts in the community.

If we can envision a new personalized, world-connected paradigm, what will it take to get there? Several contributors address this question concretely in terms of curriculum and pedagogy.

What inspires us? What persons, places and projects inform our thinking and our lives as teachers and learners? How do these influences find expression in our pedagogy?

For this issue of UnBoxed, we have asked several educators to address the theme of leadership in education. What do good leaders do, and how do they go about it? How do they cope with the day-to-day crises that inevitably arise?

In this issue, UnBoxed enters the realm of multimedia, allowing readers to peruse the journal while simultaneously viewing video and linking to websites, all with the use of your smartphones.

In this issue we feature two educators who take hopeful and visionary perspectives on schooling and society. Gunter Pauli offers inspiring examples of how young people can devise solutions to our most pressing social and environmental problems.

Welcome to the inaugural issue of UnBoxed, the journal of the High Tech High Graduate School of Education. We hope that UnBoxed will serve as a forum on adult learning in schools.