Chemical Identity Masks In this interdisciplinary project, student created a two-sided identity mask.
Cuentos Infantiles Students produced Spanish children’s books and gave them to Spanish-speaking children.
Media Saves the Beach Is it safe to go in the water? This question began an exploration of San Diego’s beaches ...
Twelve Steps to Beautiful Work Here are twelve progressive layers of scaffolding that teachers might employ to help ...
Pinhole Photography Students built pinhole cameras and took black-and-white photos, which they then ...
Graph-It Design For the Graph-It Design project, each student used Excel software to create their own ...
A Hero In My Eyes After studying the question, “What is a hero in today’s society?,” students created a ...
Aboriginal Art Middle school students studied the Aboriginal Art form, including non-naturalistic ...
The Blood Bank Project This project was a collaboration between the San Diego Blood Bank and HTH seniors, as ...
Keeping it Real Like many adults, I have trouble remembering a time in school when I felt really engaged...
Into the World of Projects This year I fell in love with project-based learning. I am new to this world and I jumped...
Going Socratic The first Socratic seminar I ran went badly—very badly. Students were either dead silent...
An Article of Faith Four years ago I decided to leave my job as a designer and brand manager to get...
Blossoms From Compost: Lessons From a Messy Garden Gardening is whole-body learning, offering rich, multi-sensory, direct personal experience...
Outside the Lens “This exhibit shows you what we love about ourselves. We are all unique and have different...
Echoes & Reflections Jill, the principal, was standing by the front desk at Explorer Elementary. She was petite...
The Long Road: (Re)Segregation in America Gary Orfield co-founded the Harvard Civil Rights Project and is currently Co-Director of...
Lila Speaks As of yesterday, it had been 13 weeks, or 55 school days, since school started. Yet it was...
Exhibition Blues In a shadow puppet play, the audience sees only shadows on a screen while the puppeteer’s...
Where Do Projects Come From? The topic of discussion, as it so often is, was how to make projects meaningful and still...