Hispanic Artist Inspired Self-Portraits High Tech Middle’s art class celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month by researching the …
Artist Happy Un-Birthday Project For this Un-Birthday project, each student spent one week studying an artist whose …
Cultural Solutions In Nature In this project, students investigated biomimicry—the quest for solutions to human …
The Creative Masters Project In The Creative Masters Project, students select a creative Spanish-speaker from any …
Story/Art Project Students analyzed numerous short stories with attention to tone, mood, structure and …
The {hu}Manifest Project Students worked individually on an integrated project exploring the essential question …
The Graphic Novel Project The HTH Graphic Novel Project, based at High Tech High Chula Vista, aims to instruct …
The Iceworker Sings Imperial Valley I had just turned twenty-five and had accepted a spot as an adjunct instructor teaching…
Made to Order In a society that has become increasingly sensitive to the needs of individuals within the…
Differentiated Assessment on Trial For the past month, my students had been reading Lord of the Flies, and this was the trial…
Writing From Experience I spend the entire summer thinking of books that my students will enjoy and considering…
Ampersand: Making Sense of Internship In January 2009, in my sixth year teaching and fourth year at High Tech High Media Arts, I…
Water, Water, Everywhere We are awash in data on students, and yet the focus on data has not dramatically…
Teaching Beyond the Test I first felt the pressures of raising my students’ test scores during my second year.
All the School’s a Stage Many people would rather die than put themselves onstage, so they are comfortably seated…
”Ask the Kids to Find Solutions” Gunter Pauli is the founder of Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives (ZERI), a global…
Mathematical Makeover I’m done, what do I do now? This is one of the utterances I least enjoy hearing in my fourth…
Remixing Education A TV satellite dish made of tin cans. A tattoo gun crafted out of a ballpoint pen and a rubber…
Issue 4: Fall 2009 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.
