Tag: student

Design Challenge: Beekeeping in Doha, Qatar

This was our students’ first introduction to the design thinking process and …

The Dream Project

Why are we here if not to dream? In this project, students engaged in conversations …

Plant and Insect Life Cycles

Second Graders became botanists and entomologists as they cared for and cultivated plant …

Best Project of All Time

Using time as a theme, in this project we explored the mathematical concepts of …

Psycarnival

For this 10th Grade Humanities project, students studied the basics of psychology …

Energy Puzzles

Our senior engineering students created jigsaw puzzles to introduce energy concepts to …

Matter All Around

First Grade Scientists explored the world of matter all around them! They wondered…

I Am an Artist

Students explored dimensions of their identity and created a double-sided canvas that …

Twelve Steps to Beautiful Work

Here are twelve progressive layers of scaffolding that teachers might employ to help …

Ron Berger on Presentations of Learning

Ron Berger talks to Alec about Presentations of Learning

The Cheltenham PBL Experiment Episode 2: Assembling the Team

In this episode, Dr. Wagner Marseille assembles the team that will bring PBL to Cheltenham, Pennsylvania

When you’re worried about a kid’s mental health

Alec talks to Cat Magielnicki about how to tell when a student might be struggling with their mental health, and how to help them

Summer Rerun: Ron Berger on Beautiful Lessons

Ron Berger talks about literacy, projects, beautifully-designed lessons, and the power of no lesson at all

Cedarbrook Episode 3: “The Same Storm”

Seventh grade students from Cedarbrook Middle School reflect on going through the same challenges during the COVID lockdown

Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth, with Rick Oculto

Jean Catubay talks to Rick Oculto about supporting LBTQ+ youth

Serving English Language Learners Starts by Serving Teachers

I stood in front of the classroom, testing guidelines in hand, as 17 sixth-grade studen…

Radical Reengagement: Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales

Opening keynote at Deeper Learning 2021 on how radical reengagement will lift students out of a year of COVID lockdown

Screen Time: How Remote Learning Feels to Students

In this special guest episode from This Teenage Life, students talk about how it feels to do “school” on zoom, what’s working, what isn’t working, and why they want to be able to pursue their own passion projects.

“How to Teach Us” and how students found real data

Sixth grade students at High Tech Middle North County write a book for teachers on how students best learn

Why PBL?

High Tech High students, teachers and directors explain the thinking behind doing projects.

Student-Centered Teaching, Teacher-Centered Leadership

The first journal entry I wrote as a brand new apprentice teacher is dated September 13…

Ron Berger on Beautiful Lessons and “No Lesson at All”

Alec talks to Ron Berger about what he’s learned about teaching literacy

Cycles of Reflection

How might students and teachers engage in cycles of reflection in order to grow as . .

Electioneering Part 1: Teaching Redistricting

Teacher Mele Sato explains how she got students excited about congressional …

Teacher Designed vs Student Designed Projects

Lillian Hsu, Founding Principal of Latitude High School speaks the benefits of a …

Cycles of Reflection – PBL Design Kit

HTH instructors break down key components that make a well designed project in the …

Remix Education

Sam Seidel, director of K12 strategy and research at Stanford d. School, talks about …

Educational Equity

Jessica Brown, Experience Designer for Business Innovation Factory, speaks about the …

Non-fiction Writing Project Critique – PBL Design Kit

HTH instructors break down key components that comprise a well designed project in the …

9th Grade Student Presentation of Learning

9th grader, Malahi (ya-ya), presents a reflection on her first end of the year…

Project Tuning Protocol

Kelly Jacob and Sacha Casiato give a brief overview of the steps in taking a project …

Contributing to the World

Tony Simmons, Executive Director at High School for Recording Arts, talks about the …

Honoring the Students

Tony Simmons, Executive Director at High School for Recording Arts, talks about the …

Student Led Conferences – Student Perspectives

A High Tech High North County senior talks about what student led conferences are and how they help students communicate their academic progress to parents and guardians.

An Edu-Nerd’s Heaven

To say that my first year of teaching was a struggle would be the professional…

Executive Function And The Provenance Of Patience

Later, though, after the third time my mother had asked me the same question within the…

Diverse By Design

These conversations may be hard, but my discomfort is small compared to what my peers…

Student Consulting

Disrupting Student-Teacher Hierarchies

The Case For Collaboration

Many have likened teaching to art. I think there’s something to that. Both are creative…

Redefining Well-Behaved In The 21st Century Classroom

I had never given a thought to the term well-behaved until I heard another teacher use…

A Journey With Venetia Phair, The Girl Who Named Pluto

In British Primary, we were encouraged to follow our students’ interests in developing…

Writing “Downtown”: Student Voice in Teaching Writing

Like my students must do in their writing, I must attend to my audience. Using what I…

Choosing Sean

Deeper learning experiences are needed by our students today. Right now. This very…

Who Am I?

In this interdisciplinary project, students examined several different facets of their …

After a Progressive K-12: First Gen Voices on College

“I think that HTH has such a different way of teaching their students that really…

Knowing Why

We forget to ask ourselves Why and learning becomes a “chore” or a “must do” as we pass…

Home Visits

What I’ve come to know, however, is that spending time in the home of each student gives…

When Teachers Exhibit

How can teachers further develop new professional learning and then share it? Is there an…

72-Mile Classroom

From the crest at Volcan Mountain, to the coast at Dog Beach, lies the 72-mile classroom…

Growth Through Reflection

“Ms. Georgia, is it reflection time yet?” an eager student asks. “You betcha, Alex. Go…

A Reel-y Authentic Project

Raising thousands of dollars in a short period of time to start a student run, non-profit…

Education, Expanded

The High Tech High system is a hotbed of intellectual thought on the topic of education,…

Mindsets and Student Agency

We can’t force students to develop agency and drive their own learning. It must come from…

Don’t Just Talk About Character: Teach Habits

When was the last time you were involved in completing a project for work that didn’t…

Everyone a Mentor

As he listens to his classmate read her story, his eyes grow wide. He turns to…

The Politics of Assessment

Assessments such as exhibitions and internships are intrinsically authentic but are few…

The Problem Finders

Yet, the various flavours of project-based learning—problem-based learning, challenge-…

Wild About Cramlington

Today, I want the 28 students I am working with to experience just enough failure to act…

Want To Get Home On Time?

Well, if we want to create a society in which we all take responsibility for the good…

A Better Education

For educators and policymakers who are passionate about social justice, one of the…

Annotating Teacher Work

The first might be expected of my eighth graders: they were not listening during class. The…

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.

Voices and Visions

Well-versed in the project protocol, our seniors are hungry for the real world. They…

Collaboration, Critique and Classroom Culture

As I watched my class interact close to the year’s end, I felt un-needed. This is a good…

Throwing a Shoe Every Day

It was first period, on the first day of seventh grade. Twenty of us sat fidgeting in…

Education, Choice and Change

Distinguished Professor at Marquette University and Chair of the Black Alliance for…

Family Mathers

Traditionally, math homework does not generate much enthusiasm, but the implementation of…

Visions of Mathematics

“What is our vision for mathematics at High Tech High?” It is my belief that there is quite…

Engaging Students

In this we are not alone. Around the world, more attention is being paid to finding ways…

Made to Order

In a society that has become increasingly sensitive to the needs of individuals within the…

Writing From Experience

I spend the entire summer thinking of books that my students will enjoy and considering…

Into the World of Projects

This year I fell in love with project-based learning. I am new to this world and I jumped…

Outside the Lens

“This exhibit shows you what we love about ourselves. We are all unique and have different…

Public Service Advertising Campaign

Groups are assigned to create an advertising campaign focusing on a social issue.

Blogging is Writing

For students of the digital generation, blogging can be an authentic and dynamic way to …

The Great Lego Caper

One day about midway through the last school year, my students were cleaning the room and…

Messy Business: A Student’s Perspective on PBL

It’s the winter of 2006 and High Tech High International has gone from being a high school…

Speeding Race Cars & Dying Embers

Flash back. It’s the exciting beginning of a new school year. For the next six weeks I…

Diving in Belize

When I tell people that I took a group of students to do underwater photography in…

Achieving Equity in Math Assessment

I remember when a college professor of mine said something that would change the way I…