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Personalizing Belongingness: 2 x 10 Strategy

Teachers can get to know students with this concentrated strategy to increase belongingness in their class

The first time you do a project is a “first draft”

Veteran PBL teacher Brian Delgado explains the power of thinking about the first time you do a project as a “first draft,” and unpacks a phrase coined by High Tech High cofounder Rob Riordan: “Let the experience be the text.”

Options for Reflection

Too often in schools, teachers work in isolation with little opportunity to engage in …

How to Design a Great Project Launch, with John Santos

The personalization of student learning starts with the experiences teachers lay out for their projects…

Personalized Learning through Collaborative Experiences

The personalization of student learning starts with the experiences teachers lay out for their projects…

“Dear Math, You are Dreadful”

15-year veteran math teacher, Sarah Strong, and her high school student, Gigi Butterfield, get into why kids hate math (at least some of them), and what to do about it.

Learning is a Full-Body Sport, So Take Care of Your Full Self

Are you supporting your wellness as we transition out of the hardest school year in history?

Julie Ruble’s PDSA Reports

During Induction, participants complete four PDSA cycles …

How Julie Ruble Talks About Race and Sexuality in Class

In this episode, Alec and middle school teacher Jean Catubay interview fellow-middle …

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

Biology Teacher John Santos breaks down what’s wrong with how we grade (and a simple …

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

In this episode of the High Tech High Unboxed podcast, Nuvia Ruland interviews …

Math Mentors

Matt Leader’s 8th grade and Dave Corner’s 11th grade math students collaborate in a cross . . .

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

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

Teaching Skills that Don’t Fit Neatly Into Projects

Lots of teachers ask us about this when they come to visit High Tech High…

Teacher Mindsets

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

Subatomic Black Hole Soup: A Graphic Novel Project

For this project, seniors explored the task of teaching a complex physics concept in a ..

The Good, Bad, and Ugly of a Successful School Project

“Human history is punctuated by the prolific rise and inevitable collapse of…

Assessing Quality Teaching

Over the course of my career, many other professional texts written by powerful, practicing…

Permission to Wonder: Using Art to Deepen Learning

We were asked to be accountable for our teaching: were we effective? Did people learn what…

Teaching, Learning, and Relationships

In this panel discussion, aired as part of a MOOC on Deeper Learning, students share…

Revealing Riches: Mentoring in Clinical Credentialing

Benjamin Disraeli once said, “The greatest good you can do for another is not just…

Uncovering The Progressive Past: The Origins of PBL

Below I explore the origins of PBL and attempt to navigate practices and approaches…

Teachmeet: PD for Teachers, by Teachers

Presenting at an event is voluntary and you can choose to do a 7 minute micro-presentation…

Illuminated Mathematics

Almost all of us have at some point taught something that was completely irrelevant to the…

I Used To Think…

I used to think that traditional public education was the institution with the most…

The Agony and The Ecstasy (of Math)

This is mathematics, he argues in A Mathematician’s Lament (2009), in all its elegance and…

Teaching Beyond the Test

I first felt the pressures of raising my students’ test scores during my second year.

Alternative Certification

Throughout, I use the term “alternative route” program to refer to programs that lead to…

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