Video Archives

Turning the Tide on Exhibitions

Lincoln High School has students stepping into the spotlight by sharing their learning through exhibitions.

From Concerns to Actions with the Huddle Routine

A routine for teams to follow to discuss students that are top of mind in order to increase belongingness in their classrooms.

Why Every Educator Should Collect Data

While some educators prioritize immediate-impact strategies and others focus on improvement tools, both approaches need to be connected by data routines to ensure sustained and effective results.

Downey High School — Story of Impact

Downey High School systematized how to connect all students with college resources.

Assessment Practices: Rework

Reworks motivate students to master skills in classroom assessment and project work.

Sharing Data with Students: 42Q Protocol

Assessment Practices: Exit Tickets

Exit tickets are formative assessments that students complete at the end of a class to show what they’ve learned.

Assessment Practices: Peer Feedback

Students provide detailed feedback on each other’s work using a tuning protocol.

College Acceptance Is Not Enough

Tips for your college team to get all college accepted seniors to the Fall semester

Warren High School — CARPE Story of Impact

How was Warren High first in the state for financial aid submissions three years in a row? Watch how they did it

Southwest High School — CARPE Story of Impact

“We want to make a change in our community, in our people, in ourselves.”

How to do Student-Centered Assessment

In Student-Centered assessment the students first reflect and then receive feedback from peers, teachers, community, and experts to fully develop their projects.

Student-Centered Assessment

In student-centered assessment, students make important decisions about the nature of assessment and participate in the process

Community Partnerships

Community partners enrich classroom experiences by fostering real-world relevance for broader topic exploration.

Lynwood High School — CARPE Story of Impact

Ana Gonzalez became Principal at Lynwood High with the goal to change the college going culture schoolwide

Equity in PBL Exhibitions

Celebrate every student’s learning by making it visible through exhibitions

Collaborative Design in PBL Exhibitions

Exhibitions are opportunities for students to shape the experience and to lead authentic audiences

Authentic Work in PBL Exhibitions

PBL exhibitions motivate students from the beginning knowing their work is for real people

Personalization in PBL Exhibitions

Every individual PBL exhibition must be unique to each student’s identity and voice

Grading Practices Review

Teachers review their grading practices and grade books to improve the success of students

Personalizing Belongingness: 2 x 10 Strategy

Teachers can get to know students with this concentrated strategy to increase belongingness in their class

Empathy Interview Norms

Five norms to consider for preparing for an empathy interview

The Masks We Wear: A Social Emotional Learning Project

Heart work is hard work too

Ruby Ibarra on Art & Self Erasure

Rapper & poet Ruby Ibarra speaks on how performing has grown her confidence to be her whole self

Curation Creates Culture

Curating student work contributes to the school culture by valuing the students work and modeling high quality projects

Making Student Thinking Visible

Teacher strategy to make students’ thinking visible in math class discussion.

Chain of Whys

When digging into the root of your problem, use a chain of whys to go deeper.

Personalized Learning through Collaborative Experiences

The personalization of student learning starts with the experiences teachers lay out for their projects…

Exhibitions & School Culture

Rob Riordan talks about how exhibitions of learning aid in the development of a school’s culture

Center for Love & Justice / / LAUSD

Center for Love & Justice collaborated with LAUSD to implement PBL in local schools

The Impact of Exhibitions

Ninth graders from High Tech High International share their learning at multiple exhibitions with various audiences to deepen their understanding…

Who’s Involved, Who’s Impacted?

Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford explains about how equity is part of the improvement process

Project Launch: Parkour

High Tech Elementary Mesa first graders experience moving in a different way…

Project Deepening: Bird Dancers

Second grade students deepen their project with a visit from bird dancers from several local tribes

The Cardboard Chair Exhibition

7th grade students at HTMMA see if their cardboard chairs hold up to the ultimate test…

Problem Statement

How to craft a problem statement for your improvement project

Improvement Norms

Norms for improvement will help you every step of the way

Equity Stances

Improvement and equity come together by prioritizing human connections, acknowledging lived experiences, and highlighting the need for continuous learning

Kindergarten: Expanding Play

Michelina Miedema shares how students in Kindergarten express their ideas through play…

CARE Network — High Tech Middle North County

Brittany Perro shares her story of encouraging belongingness in her 8th grade Humanities class…

Change Ideas

How do you narrow in on a change idea? Use these four tips to get started

CARE Network — Lemon Grove Academy Middle

Lemon Grove Academy Middle shares how belongingness and valuing students’ cultures are at the center of the work…

PDSA overview

How to do a Plan Do Study Act improvement cycle

We, Not They

Dr. Luke Wood discusses how educators can change their perspective by changing their language.

First Grade: Work in Play

Jamelle Jones at High Tech Elementary North County shares how students explore play as their work

The Fun Project

Max Cady’s sixth grade multimedia class discovered different types of fun…

Power of the Influencer exhibition

7th grade students at High Tech Middle North County from Emily Kyle’s humanities class explore…

Empathy in Design — Improving as an Empathetic Designer

Empathy work involves understanding systems and humanizing data.

HTHybrid — Online Exhibitions

The flexibility and personalization of online exhibitions gives students a focused spotlight to share their learning

Empathy in Design — Three Strategies to Build Empathy

Empathy is more than a step in a process, it is a perspective and skillset…

AbleGamerz Project Overview

Sixth grade interdisciplinary project giving people with disabilities better access

HTHybrid — Stained Glass Chalk Art

High Tech High Media Arts 12th grade students create outdoor art in one of their first…

HTHybrid — First Week Back

Students and staff started on campus in a week filled with joy and return to regular school

Science At Home

10th grade students did home experiments by using materials in their house and asking testable questions.

School Makes Me Feel

High Tech High students from many of the K12 schools reflect on how school makes them . . .

Establishing the HTH Design Principles

Rob Riordan introduces the HTH design principles and how they arrived at the final …

Why PBL?

High Tech High students, teachers and directors explain the thinking behind doing projects.

The Breaks Exhibition

Fernando Vega’s 6th grade students from High Tech Middle North County explored the four . . .

Math Mentors

Matt Leader’s 8th grade and Dave Corner’s 11th grade math students collaborate in a cross . . .

Exhibition Voices

Students from middle to high school share their learning at Exhibition in December of 2019.

High Tech High Design Principles

High Tech High is guided by four connected design principles—equity, personalization . . .

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”.

A Project is a Type of Unit, Not a Type of Lesson

Clearing up a misconception that we hear a lot.

Don’t Grade Quizzes

A suggestion for improving formative assessment.

Teaching Skills that Don’t Fit Neatly Into Projects

Lots of teachers ask us about this when they come to visit High Tech High…

Cycles of Reflection

How might students and teachers engage in cycles of reflection in order to grow as . .

Project Launch

A project launch is an engaging, active experience with multiple entry points for diverse learners that invites multiple perspectives and fosters diverse, innovative thinking.

Mathiness of Truthiness Critique

Sarah Strong leads a critique in the “Mathiness of Truthiness” project

Electioneering Project

Teacher Mele Sato explains the exhibition rehearsal process for the electioneering …

The Mathiness of Truthiness Exhibition

Math teacher, Sarah Strong, presents the premise behind her interdisciplinary …

What Makes a School a “Good School”

Sam Seidel, director of K12 strategy and research at Stanford d. School, describes …

Teacher Designed vs Student Designed Projects

Lillian Hsu, Founding Principal of Latitude High School speaks the benefits of a …

Experience as Text – PBL Design Kit

HTH instructors break down key components that comprise a well designed project in the …

Disability & Identity

LeDerick Horne speaks about the importance of educators being open about their …

Shadow a Student

Laura McBain, K12 Lab Director of Community and Implementation, speaks about the …

Cycles of Reflection – PBL Design Kit

HTH instructors break down key components that make a well designed project in the …

The Many Paths to Success

Carlos Moreno, C.E.O. of Big Picture Learning, discusses the value of being …

Early Student Connections

Laura McBain, K12 Lab Director of Community and Implementation, speaks about the …

Cycles of Inquiry – PBL Design Kit

HTH instructors break down key components that comprise a well designed project in …

Authentic Student & Teacher Work in Schools

Adria Steinberg describes how observing cues such as the quality of …

My Teachable Moment

Chris Emdin, Associate Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education, …

Continuous Education for Teachers

LeDerick Horne, speaks about the value of profession development and how High Tech …

Remix Education

Sam Seidel, director of K12 strategy and research at Stanford d. School, talks about …

Building Off of Student Strengths

Carlos Moreno, C.E.O. of Big Picture Learning, addresses the importance of using …

Teacher Mindsets

Jessica Brown, Experience Designer for Business Innovation Factory, speaks about the …

High Expectations

Chris Emdin, Associate Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education, …

Defining Features of Great Academics

Jessica Brown, Experience Designer for Business Innovation Factory, speaks about what …

Music to Literacy

Sam Seidel, director of K12 strategy and research at Stanford d. School, tells the …

Educational Equity

Jessica Brown, Experience Designer for Business Innovation Factory, speaks about the …

Cultural Relevance

Chris Emdin, Associate Director of the Institute For Urban and Minority Education …

The Power of an Internship

Carlos Moreno, C.E.O. of Big Picture Learning, highlights the importance and impact of …

Non-fiction Writing Project Critique – PBL Design Kit

HTH instructors break down key components that comprise a well designed project in the …

Redefine Who You Are as a Learner

LeDerick Horne speaks about the importance of being transparent with students who have …

Know Your Values

Adria Steinberg describes the importance of knowing one’s values as an educator and …

White Fragility Awareness

Adria Steinberg describes the importance of acknowledging white fragility in the …

Building Literacy

Sam Seidel, director of K12 strategy and research at Stanford d. School, speaks about …

What Might Great Academics Look Like

Lillian Hsu, Founding Principal of Latitude High School, speaks about what the great …

Observing Schools

Chris Emdin, Associate Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education, …

Cycles of Production — PBL Design Kit

How might students build academic knowledge, skills, and dispositions, while simultaneously building products via project-based learning?

Math Portfolio Critique

Students identify and develop mathematical skills and dispositions through peer critique of student-curated math portfolios.

Stars in the Parks: Parks at Night

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.

Stars in the Parks: Community Partners

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.

Stars in the Parks: In Summary

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.

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