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ELA teachers asked students to connect their personal and cultural identity to the academic content at key junctures in their lessons.

Parkway faculty carved out time in their daily schedule to pull specific groups of students to work on a particular skill or intervention,

Alec talks to Jason Nious, founder of the stepping and body percussion crew Molodi, about the journey that brought him here, and about what he’s learned from dance and body percussion about connecting to young people in school.

Following unbridled curiosity is the central work of children. And, contrary to what industrialized education might demand of us, enabling the deep work of childhood to flourish is the actual central work of educators, school leaders, caregivers, and anyone bestowed with the honor of raising and educating young people.

Every Friday, Mr. Reading Pot would make a grand entrance into the classroom and be seated in the middle of a large circle of squirrely kids. Mr. Reading Pot was a bad-tempered and curmudgeonly fellow.

Teachers plan meaningfully and rigorously in ways that allow the synergy of soft and hard skills to interact

It was the week before the exhibition at High Tech Middle Chula Vista. My eighth-grade class had spent the last eight weeks exploring the question “What makes us resilient?”

Lots of teachers come to High Tech High, see how collaborative the teachers are, and get inspired to make their first project a massive interdisciplinary collaboration between, say, English, Spanish, Biology, and Algebra. This is almost always a bad idea. 

The relationships between students and their community partners exist across a spectrum that can be surveyed in the project planning.