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
Improving FAFSA Completion Rates We are attempting to represent the findings of a major Continuous Improvement project …
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 …
Bringing Continuous Improvement to Induction California’s credentialing structure is a two-step approach …
If it doesn’t work for teachers, it doesn’t work Alec talks to Dr. Simon Breakspear about how he developed his “Teaching Sprints” program …
“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 …
“You can’t do this alone”: La Junta Collective Jean and Alec talk to members of South Central LA’s La Junta Collective about how to …
LeDerick Horne on Supporting Students in Quarantine In this episode, Alec talks to LeDerick Horne about what teachers can do to support kids …
Continuous Improvement: Teacher Induction This episode is about how High Tech High transformed its teacher induction program to . . .
Student-Centered Teaching, Teacher-Centered Leadership The first journal entry I wrote as a brand new apprentice teacher is dated September 13…
Executive Function And The Provenance Of Patience Later, though, after the third time my mother had asked me the same question within the…
Who Killed The PD Day? Top-down compliance measures and listening to “spray and pray” guest presenters are…
Writing “Downtown”: Student Voice in Teaching Writing Like my students must do in their writing, I must attend to my audience. Using what I…
Other People’s Children Are My Children To be clear, this is NOT a guide, and I do NOT have all the answers, or any answer for…
Thank You Tiger! My Teacher Wake Up Call His dad had told him that he’d have a job with him as a bricklayer on the building…
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of a Successful School Project “Human history is punctuated by the prolific rise and inevitable collapse of…
Sizzle and Steak So, exhibitions can be exceptionally stressful for everyone involved, but that’s no…
What Does it Mean to Think Like a Teacher? When, as an infant, you come to terms with the fact that your mother leaves the…
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…
Revealing Riches: Mentoring in Clinical Credentialing Benjamin Disraeli once said, “The greatest good you can do for another is not just…
Sharing Bright Spots, Ending Isolation They treat students like young adults and instill values of responsibility and respect.
Teaching, Learning & Not Knowing A former student and translator of Jean Piaget, Eleanor Duckworth is Professor of…
Sunflowers and Math I don’t recall how long our class spent working on the art pieces or what we did before…
A Hiring Bonanza At one district, I was told to sub for a few years and maybe a job would open up. When I…
Throwing a Shoe Every Day It was first period, on the first day of seventh grade. Twenty of us sat fidgeting in…
Engaging Students In this we are not alone. Around the world, more attention is being paid to finding ways…
Where Do Projects Come From? The topic of discussion, as it so often is, was how to make projects meaningful and still…
Opening up to Math I cannot count the number of times that I have heard from parents and students alike…
Alternative Certification Throughout, I use the term “alternative route” program to refer to programs that lead to…
