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Alec Patton

Editor of High Tech High Unboxed

Alec is the editor of High Tech High Unboxed, which is the place where High Tech High shares what it knows, thinks and dreams of. Specifically, it’s an online collection of podcasts, videos, and articles, and a semi-annual hard-copy journal.

Alec taught humanities for five years, first at High Tech High North County, then at High Tech High Chula Vista. As part of the projects Alec has designed, his students have produced podcasts about California’s state Propositions and plays about wrongfully convicted inmates. One year, students designed and ran a simulation in which audience members took on the roles of Syrian citizens forced to leave and seek refuge in another country. In partnership with biology teacher Matt Leader, Alec led 45 11th graders who became the first large group ever to walk the entire San Dieguito Coast-to-Crest trail, a total of 72 miles.

You can learn more about Alec’s projects on his Digital Portfolio, here. Prior to joining High Tech High, Alec worked at the Innovation Unit in London, England, where he wrote Work that Matters: The Teacher’s Guide to Project-based Learning. Alec first became interested in project-based learning when he was doing his Ph.D. at the University of Sheffield, and designed a program that trained undergraduates to record and transcribe oral history interviews for the British Library’s Theatre Archive Project.

Contributions

Sizzle and Steak

Syrian Refugee Simulation

In Sickness and In Health

We are tight on the HOW of planning not the WHAT

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

Don’t Grade Quizzes

Teaching Skills that Don’t Fit Neatly Into Projects

2:13 – Don Berwick on Improvement as Learning

2:12 – Ayo Magwood: Preparing students to Understand, Discuss, and Dismantle Racism

2:11 – We’re about ALL kids, and ALL kids being successful”: Dr. Adriana Lepe-Ramirez, Principal of Escondido High School

2:09 – Banishing Awkward Silence from Breakout Rooms

2:08 – Shane Duenow on parallel prototyping & Padlet

2:07 – “If it doesn’t work for teachers, it doesn’t work”

2:06 – “Nobody dresses like that here”

2:05 – Spreadsheets vs. Inequality in New York City Schools

2:04 – Screen Time: How Remote Learning Feels to Students

2:02 – “You can’t do this alone”: La Junta Collective

2:01 – “Who is centered, and who is this costing?” Julie Ruble

1:20 – John Santos: “Rigor” shouldn’t mean “some kids fail”

1:21 – How Carol Cabrera Stages Student Plays on Zoom

1:19 – What Matters Most to Latitude High School during Lockdown

1:18 – LeDerick Horne on supporting ALL students during Quarantine

1:17 – Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang: Meaning-making Makes Us

1:16 – Dr. Margo Vreeburg Izzo: Special Education Online

1:15 – “Showing Up” for Students when you’re Locked Down

1:14 – Continuous Improvement: Teacher Induction

1:13 – Ron Berger on Whole-class Close Reading

1:12 – LeDerick Horne: Separate is not Equal in Special Ed.

1:11 – 11th graders are helping wrongfully-convicted prisoners

1:10 – Ben Daley on Continuous Improvement

1:09 – La Junta Collective: making a school that heals trauma

1:08 – Brandy Williams: Doing School for Exceptional Learners

1:07 – Stephanie Hall-Powell: School is about Relationships

1:06 – Joe Truss Tackles White Supremacy in School

1:05 – Ron Berger on Beautiful Lessons & “No Lesson”

1:04 – How Calexico High School Raised FAFSA Completion

1:03 – “Did This Do Justice to What You’ve Learned?”

1:02 – Electioneering Part 2: “That’s not Fair!”

1:01 – Electioneering Part 1: Teaching Redistricting

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