High Tech High Unboxed

Mar 06 2025 142 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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S6E12 - How One District Improved On-track by Shifting Their System Towards More Student-centered Practices

Mar 06 2025 30 mins  
Episode Notes Check out the Institute For Learning’s Vision of Collaborative Work! Here’s what Sara DeMartino says about it: “While the driver diagram was helpful in thinking through the theory of change, we found teachers and leaders, more than anything, wanted to know the role that they played in that theory and the role other members of the system were playing as well. We

S6E11 - A Story of Butterflies, Regeneration, and Hope

Feb 20 2025 39 mins  
Episode Notes Check out this video about the sIlvery blue/Xerces blue surrogacy project! The Silvery Blue/Xerces surrogacy project began with the ideas of Robert Michael Pyle, and have since included many partners. These include Robert Michael Pyle's Xerces Society, Creekside Science, and Revive and Restore. Durrell Kapan wanted to take the opportunity of these notes to s

S6E10 - Tackling Chronic Absenteeism by Asking Students What They Need

Feb 06 2025 42 mins  
Episode Notes Community Design Partners’ library of Student-Powered Improvement resources In his work, Casey drew particularly on this guide: Building Student-Powered Classrooms Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, “What Improvers Can Learn from Civil Rights Organizers”

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