High Tech High Unboxed

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. Check out the "This Teenage Life" website at https://thisteenagelife.org/ You can also find it on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! There is a trans...

Sixth grade students at High Tech Middle North County write a book for teachers on how students best learn Read the book here Check out the student survey here Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Jean and Alec talk to members of South Central LA’s La Junta Collective about how to point out when colleagues say something harmful, who should be doing that work, and how that helps kids to know they are safe in school. A full transcript of this episode is here You can hear our interview with German and Rebecca about "creating a school that heal trauma rather than inflicting i...

In this episode, Alec and middle school teacher Jean Catubay interview fellow-middle school teacher Julie Ruble about how she talks to her students about challenging, relevant stuff without anyone getting hurt. Full episode transcript here Notes and references: Part 1: First Aid (starts 7:15) 10:57 The GLSEN activity about using "gay" as an insult is here 14:49 Julie uses this video from...

Episode Notes In this episode, Brent Spirnak interviews 9th grade humanities teacher Carol Cabrera about staging student-written “zoom plays” in quarantine. Episode transcript here Some of he "quaranscenes" that Carol's students wrote: From Across the Street by Evonna Esparza Surf Going South by Lauren Zirinsky Wasteland by Rishi Halker The Parking Lot by Nicholas Castro Inside the Dog H...

Episode Notes Biology Teacher John Santos breaks down what’s wrong with how we grade (and a simple way to do it better) You can read a transcript of this episode HERE You can learn more about John Santos's research on his digital portfolio Just to be clear, the mahogany wall hooks John made for me are made of salvaged wood - we're not buying new mahogany, and neither should you Learn more about th...

Episode Notes Alec talks to Lillian Hsu and John Bosselman, of  Latitude High School  in Oakland about attending to community and shared meaning-making during the pandemic. You can read a transcript of this episode HERE Learn more about Latitude High School on their website, https://latitudehigh.org/ Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes In this episode, Alec talks to LeDerick Horne about what teachers can do to support kids with special educational needs (and their families) in the midst of this craziness. Read a full transcript here The website that LeDerick recommends is https://www.educatingalllearners.org/ Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes In this episode of the High Tech High Unboxed podcast, Nuvia Ruland interviews Prof. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a professor of education and psychology at the University of Southern California about what she’s learned from her research into education and psychology, including. They get into why so much of her research focuses on low-income communities, why she prefers talking about “...

Episode Notes In this episode, Alec talks to Dr. Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Program Director of Transition Services at Ohio State University Nisonger Center, about how they moved their program for students with intellectual disabilities entirely online. Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes School psychologist Cat Magielnicki talks about how to support your students’ (and your own) mental health in this crazy time, including tips for talking to elementary, middle, and high school kids about coronavirus, and the very cool “PEACE” acronym (which comes from Dan Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson’s book,  The Power of Showing Up  (order it from your local bookstore if you can – l...

Episode Notes This episode is about how High Tech High transformed its teacher induction program to make it all about Continuous Improvement, and put teachers in control of their own learning. Transcript here . The Fishbone Diagram and Interrelationship Digraph that Julie Ruble's group made. You can get a PDF of an effort-impact chart here . To find out more about High Tech High's teacher inductio...

Episode Notes In the inaugural episode of the “High Tech High Unboxed: Pro Sessions” podcast series, EL Education Chief Academic Officer Ron Berger explains how to help a class work together to make sense of an academic text that most adults would be unable to read on their own. You can read a transcript of this episode here Our other podcast episode featuring Ron Berger is Ron Berger on the magic...

Episode Notes In this episode, Alec talks to spoken-word poet and disability rights advocate LeDerick Horne about getting diagnosed with a learning disability in third grade and spending the rest of his K-12 education in segregated classrooms, and about what SHOULD have happened instead. The conversation ranges from riding the short bus to the watching the Simpsons, and ends with LeDerick’s experi...

Episode Notes In this episode, Alec talks to Mackenzie King, a teacher at High Tech High Chula Vista whose students are screening applications to the California Innocence Project from prisoners who say they were wrongfully convicted and want the Innocence Project to take their case. To see if there's an organization like the California Innocence Project near you, visit www.innocencenetwork.org Tab...

In this episode, Alec talks to Ben Daley, President of High Tech High’s Graduate School of Education. One of the Graduate School’s big projects is the CARPE College Access Network, which focused last year on raising FAFSA completion rates. FAFSA is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid – it’s the form you need to complete in order to get financial aid from the government. You can listen to...

La Junta Collective in South Central LA is Rebecca Rodriguez, German Gallardo, Carlitos Cortez, and Pedro Gomez, four educators who are starting a school that will be a place for an entire community to heal from trauma together. Rebecca and German came to High Tech High and talked to Alec about what they're doing, why they're doing it, and what's standing in their way.

Episode Notes Table of Contents 1:25 Growing up in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, and childhood trauma 2:16 College and Hurricane Katrina 2:55 Starting again in North Texas 3:30 Working at Wal Mart 4:07 Returning to college to finish her undergraduate degree 4:33 Brandy starts teaching math 5:22 Brandy becomes an English teacher 5:35 Brandy returns to New Orleans start an “Earn to Learn” program run by...

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Table of Contents: Who Joe Truss is & why we're talking to him (0:37) White Supremacy Culture, defined (1:02) White Fragility, defined (1:44) Growing up in the Tenderloin (2:24) Why Joe was academically successful when most of his friends weren't (3:57) Tracked classes and White Supremacy Culture (5:52) How writing is taught and White Supremacy Culture (6:29) Reading: For White Folks Who Teach...

The Hechinger Report article about FAFSA completion is here You can learn more about the CARPE College Access Network (and apply to join) here Episode image: photo of Calexico High School by Susan Myrland (Flickr) Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education This podcast is powered by Pinecast .

Alec talks to Ron Berger about what he's learned about teaching literacy You can read Stacey Caillier's interview with Ron Berger here Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Shelby's project was inspired by the Library of Congress's Voices Remembering Slavery collection. HBO produced a film based on interviews from this collection, called Unchained Memories . The "Push-pull protocol" that Shelby used for writing conferences is here . Our theme music is "Agassi (Into the Spider's Web)" by Brother Hershel This episode's other music come...

Episode Notes Alec talks to math teacher Mele Sato about how she appealed to students' sense of fairness in order to teach them about alternative voting methods. You can find out all about the electioneering project here .

Alec talks to Mele Sato about bringing Gerrymandering home for students, using local maps. You can find out all about the electioneering project here .