High Tech High Unboxed

Jan 30 2025 139 ep. 34 mins 46
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Stories of learning in and out of school, and interviews with teachers, students, and school leaders. Artwork by the inimitable Enrique "Chikle" Lugo Brought to you by HTH Unboxed: A Journal of Adult Learning in Schools Visit us online at hthunboxed.org

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S6E9 - How to collaborate on a mural with 200 elementary-schoolers, with Scarlett Baily

Jan 30 2025 48 mins  
Episode Notes Check out a photo gallery of Scarlett's murals here Scarlett Baily's website Kumeyaay Community College Website

S6E8 - Improving Literacy in a Large Urban District, with Amiee Winchester and Zack Jaffe

Jan 08 2025 46 mins  
Episode Notes Alec talks to Amiee Winchester and Zack Jaffe about their continuous improvement work on improving literacy at Baltimore City Public Schools.

S6E7 - Simon Breakspear: using "the pruning principle" to achieve better outcomes through strategic subtraction

Dec 13 2024 52 mins  
Episode Notes Our other episode with Simon Breakspear, “If It Doesn’t Work for Teachers, It Doesn’t Work” You can find great free tools (and order The Pruning Principle) at pruningprinciple.com Simon mentions Cal Newport. You can find out more about his “20% over capacity” principle in this blog post: What Would Happen If We Slowed Down? Come join us at Deeper Learning

S6E6 - Sean Mortimer (Tony Hawk’s co-author) on how to help people tell their stories

Nov 20 2024 36 mins  
Episode Notes Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters

S6E5 - Ron Berger: Empower Students by Giving Them Learning Targets

Oct 30 2024 51 mins  
Episode Notes Leaders of Their Own Learning by Ron Berger, Leah Woodfin, and Leah Rugen Other podcast episodes featuring Ron Berger: Ron Berger on Presentations of Learning Ron Berger on Student-Led Conferences Ron Berger on Whole-Class Close Reading Ron Berger on Beautiful Lessons and “No Lesson at All”

S6E4 - Ted Cuevas: How to Assess Students Like Scouts

Oct 16 2024 38 mins  
Episode Notes Learn more about the “Light on Literacy” project Check out the platform that Ted uses for student portfolios, Inkwire We have another scouting-connected podcast episode! Eduard Vallory: What School Can Learn From Catalonian Scouting

S6E3 - Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford: What improvers can learn from civil rights organizers

Oct 02 2024 57 mins  
Episode Notes Learn more about Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford’s work here Brandi’s other episodes on this podcast: Dr. Brandi Hinnant Crawford, Improvement as a Tool for Our Collective Liberation (High Tech High Unboxed podcast) Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford & Dr. Luke Wood at Gates CoP NSI (High Tech High Unboxed podcast) Articles, books, and people referenced in this epi

S6E2 - AI for Technophobic Teachers, with John Santos

Sep 18 2024 20 mins  
Episode Notes John Santos's other episodes on the podcast: Rigor shouldn't mean Some Kids Fail (a better grading strategy—easy to implement too!) How to Design a Great Project Launch The AI project-planning tool that John talks about is the AI Kaleidoscope by Inkwire and the High Tech High GSE

S6E1 - Kicking A** by Taking Names, with Ben Daley

Aug 28 2024 13 mins  
Episode Notes We start the episode by talking about the book Upstream by Dan Heath. It's really good—you should read it. You can find more find more podcast episodes, articles, and videos about Continuous Improvement here! You can find a transcript of this episode here.

S5E28 - Green School Student Louis Lacour on PBL, renewable energy, and biodegradable zip ties

Aug 06 2024 19 mins  
Episode Notes You should also listen to Kelly's interview with Benjamin Freud, head of Green School's Upper School You can see the 2023 Greenstone presentations here Green School website