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PUBLISHED December 4, 2020
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Spread What Works More Effectively With Model Critiques
A Model Critique is a protocol for quickly studying a high-quality piece of work and identifying the elements of quality that make it “work”. In Continuous Improvement, you should use it when a Networked Improvement Community has identified an effective practice that they want to spread.
Unboxed Staff
A Simple Way to Turn an Assignment into a Project
A project feels big and ambitious to students because of the audience they’re showing the product to, and the venue where they’ll share it.
Alec Patton
Leave No Student Work Behind
This article is an edited excerpt from an episode of the High Tech High Unboxed podcast. You can listen to the full episode here. In this excerpt, Andy Sprakes, co-founder and chief academic officer at the XP School Trust in Britain tells Unboxed editor Alec Patton about the mistake he has never forgotten from his first-ever project, and how that mistake shaped the school’s entire culture.
Andy Sprakes
What’s a Learning Target, and Why are They So Powerful?
A learning target is an “I can” statement written in student-friendly language (for example, “I can graph linear equations.”
Ron Berger
Spread What Works More Effectively With Model Critiques
A Model Critique is a protocol for quickly studying a high-quality piece of work and identifying the elements of quality that make it “work”. In Continuous Improvement, you should use it when a Networked Improvement Community has identified an effective practice that they want to spread.
Unboxed Staff
A Simple Way to Turn an Assignment into a Project
A project feels big and ambitious to students because of the audience they’re showing the product to, and the venue where they’ll share it.
Alec Patton
Leave No Student Work Behind
This article is an edited excerpt from an episode of the High Tech High Unboxed podcast. You can listen to the full episode here. In this excerpt, Andy Sprakes, co-founder and chief academic officer at the XP School Trust in Britain tells Unboxed editor Alec Patton about the mistake he has never forgotten from his first-ever project, and how that mistake shaped the school’s entire culture.
Andy Sprakes
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Want to Raise Attendance at Your School? Prioritize Relationships, Not Rewards
Many schools and districts have responded to this challenge by ramping up attendance incentives such as prizes, parties, or special privileges intended to draw students to school. These approaches often withhold a positive experience until an absent student behaves differently, reflecting a common belief that the right reward will motivate students to attend more consistently. Unfortunately, research points to a mismatch between this solution and the nature of the problem.
Amanda J. Meyer,
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Mining for Gold: Using Improvement Science to Increase Class Participation For Multilingual Learners
In my years of working with teachers and school leaders as an improvement coach, I’ve learned to listen closely to what is unsaid. Variation is data. Silence is data. And an entire group of kindergarteners consistently being silent in class? That is definitely data.
Michellea Millis Rucker
Why Deeper Learning Needs Continuous Improvement
Edwards Deming, a founder of continuous improvement methods, once brutally summarized the field of education as “miracle goals and no methods.” Having spent the past 30 years trying to spread deeper learning to more students more often, I recognize myself in this sentence.
Ben Daley
Two Tips for Improvement Reviews: Listen to Experts, and Make Senior Leaders Uncomfortable
Ben Daley explains how his instinct to avoid reinforcing hierarchy kept him from getting the full benefit from improvement reviews.
Ben Daley
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