Project Dreamlight Inspired by Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Simon Sinek’s Youtube Video “Addiction…
The Dream Project Why are we here if not to dream? In this project, students engaged in conversations …
The Making of the Modern Teen The graduating seniors of HTHMA presented a compelling and provocative interactive art …
One Drop at a Time There were three major components to this project: A class novel study of the novel …
Superheroes Unite! The Superhero project explored what superhero qualities each student possessed and how …
Who Walks Here: The Journey of Our People and Our Land The Who Walks Here project came from the teachers’ passion for nature and wanting our …
Coded Structures, Decoded Identities As importantly, students learned to analyze critically how man-made environments affect …
Explorers of the World This project introduced Kindergarteners to exploration, observation, mapping, multiple …
2084: Junk Puppet Theatre The novel 1984 is considered by some to be prophetic, but in many ways it was just …
Town Squares: A San Diego Neighborhoods Project Students at HTM are selected through a lottery system and come from every zip code in …
A Picture is Worth 1000 Words This was a collaborative project between 12th grade Art and English classes where …
Mystery Code Project The Mystery Code Project was a collaboration between 11th grade English, math, and art …
Choose Your Own Adventure Students explored examples of risk taking from personal and state history, through a …
A Fly on the Wall A Fly on the Wall Project was a collaborative project between 11th grade biology and …
Turning Points, Toy Theatre The goal of this project was to recreate and interpret critical historical turning …
The End of the World Uncovered Students and teachers built this project from scratch. We started with students’ …
The Learning Landscape Students often complain about their learning environments, whether it’s comfort …
Inner Nature Mask Project While much of the Western academic tradition focuses upon the external world, we shifted …
Philosopher Shrines Salon Night Students experienced the beauty of math by creating murals using specific geometric shapes.
Twelve Steps to Beautiful Work Here are twelve progressive layers of scaffolding that teachers might employ to help …
San Diego to Hawaii Project Cards provide quick glimpses of inspiring projects designed by teachers and realized in collaboration with students.
What an English Language Learner Coordinator Does Schools are full of adults who aren’t classroom teachers, but a classroom teacher can go through their entire career without really…
Serving English Language Learners Starts by Serving Teachers I stood in front of the classroom, testing guidelines in hand, as 17 sixth-grade studen…
Quick Jots to Support Student Reading Independent reading is the reading students do that has potential …
Continuous Improvement in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Perspective Our topic was “close reading,” and when we were sharing strategies …
Exhibiting Student Writing… Exhibitions of student learning, with their many projects, activities, and associated…
Doing the Project Yourself: Teaching Writing… In the world of project-based learning, prototypes are necessary for success…
Making Critique Work I introduced critique to my class after reading Ron Berger’s manifesto, An Ethic of…
Here Now, Gone Tomorrow students created and published a children’s book detailing their chosen endangered …
Response-ABILITY: Empathy in Action Few people recognize or understand the conflict and crisis that result in refugee …
Writing “Downtown”: Student Voice in Teaching Writing Like my students must do in their writing, I must attend to my audience. Using what I…
Subatomic Black Hole Soup: A Graphic Novel Project For this project, seniors explored the task of teaching a complex physics concept in a ..
Practicing English by Playtesting Games In this project, 85 university students in Japan, all of whom liked board and card …
Making Critique Work I introduced critique to my class after reading Ron Berger’s manifesto, An Ethic of…
Exhibiting Student Writing Exhibitions of student learning, with their many projects, activities, and associated banter, can take on the atmosphere of a science fair or a grand opening at an art gallery.
Writing About Math First, as in any subject, writing about math forces students to articulate their thoughts…
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…
Invisibility Seniors from High Tech High Media Arts brought the invisible to light during a multimedia …
