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Alec Patton

Editor-in-Chief

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

Glossary — Issue 20

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

S4:E11 — Deeper Learning: Origins (with Laura McBain)

S4:E10 — No Teacher, No Internet, No Problem

S4:E6 — Eduard Vallory: What School Can Learn From (Catalonian) Scouting

S4:E4 — Sarah Strong on the first step to helping kids love math: listening to them

S4:E3 — David Roney: For kids to experience PBL from day 1, teachers need PBL from day 1 too!

S4:E1 — Establishing culture in the first two weeks of school (and after) with Edrick Macalaguim

S3:E22— Ron Berger on Presentations of Learning

S3:E14 — “We start the year in the Forbidden City”: the ETU School Story, with Yinuo Li

S3:E13 — The Cheltenham PBL Experiment Bonus Episode: What Happened After March 2020?

S3:E12 — The Cheltenham PBL Experiment Episode 4: Year Two

S3:E11 — The Cheltenham PBL Experiment Episode 3: Year One

S3:E10 — The Cheltenham PBL Experiment Episode 2: Assembling the Team

S3:E9 — Pro Session: How to talk to a kid when you’re worried about their mental health

S3:E8 – The Cheltenham PBL Experiment Episode 1: “I Hear You Want to Do Something Different”

S3:E6 — United Way’s Lindsay Fox: Changing the World by Listening

S3:E5 — Life California on Student-led Conferences

S3:E4 — Shani Leader (and her kids) on Student Led Conferences

S3:E3 — Ron Berger on Student Led Conferences

S3:E2 — Project Files: The Syrian Refugee Simulation, with Dany Francis

S3:E1 — Eva Mejia on Improvement Networks for Equity

S2:E27 — Summer Rerun: Ron Berger on the magic of beautiful lessons, and of “no lesson at all”

S2:E26 – Going back to Kindergarten with Teacher, Actor, and Musician Kemp Harris

S2:E20 — Radical Reengagement: Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales

S2:E19 – Storytelling in Mexico

S2:E17 – Teaching Consent: Beyond “No Means No”

S2:E16 – Supporting kids’ mental health as we return to the classroom, with Cat Magielnicki

S2:E14 – What Can School Learn From After-school?

S2:E13 – Don Berwick on Improvement as Learning

S2:E12 – Ayo Magwood: Preparing students to Understand, Discuss, and Dismantle Racism

S2:E11 – We’re about ALL kids, and ALL kids being successful”: Dr. Adriana Lepe-Ramirez, Principal of Escondido High School

S2:E09 – Banishing Awkward Silence from Breakout Rooms

S2:E08 – Shane Duenow on parallel prototyping & Padlet

S2:E07 – “If it doesn’t work for teachers, it doesn’t work”

S2:E06 – “Nobody dresses like that here”

S2:E05 – Spreadsheets vs. Inequality in New York City Schools

S2:E04 – Screen Time: How Remote Learning Feels to Students

S2:E02 – “You can’t do this alone”: La Junta Collective

S2:E01 – “Who is centered, and who is this costing?” How Julie Ruble Talks About Race and Sexuality in Class

S1:E20 – John Santos: “Rigor” shouldn’t mean “some kids fail”

S1:E19 – What Matters Most to Latitude High School during Lockdown

S1:E21 – How Carol Cabrera Stages Student Plays on Zoom

S1:E18 – LeDerick Horne on supporting ALL students during Quarantine

S1:E17 – Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang: Meaning-making Makes Us

S1:E16 – Dr. Margo Vreeburg Izzo: Special Education Online

S1:E15 – “Showing Up” for Students when you’re Locked Down

S1:E14 – Continuous Improvement: Teacher Induction

S1:E13 – Ron Berger on Whole-class Close Reading

S1:E12 – LeDerick Horne: Separate is not Equal in Special Ed.

S1:E11 – 11th graders are helping wrongfully-convicted prisoners

S1:E10 – Ben Daley on Continuous Improvement

S1:E09 – La Junta Collective: making a school that heals trauma

S1:E08 – Brandy Williams: Doing School for Exceptional Learners

S1:E07 – Stephanie Hall-Powell: School is about Relationships

S1:E06 – Joe Truss Tackles White Supremacy in School

S1:E05 – Ron Berger on Beautiful Lessons and “No Lesson at All”

S1:E04 – How Calexico High School Raised FAFSA Completion

S1:E03 – “Did This Do Justice to What You’ve Learned?”

S1:E02 – Electioneering Part 2: “That’s not Fair!”

S1:E01 – Electioneering Part 1: Teaching Redistricting

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