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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.

Sixth grade students at High Tech Middle North County write a book for teachers on how students best learn

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.

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.

Biology Teacher John Santos breaks down what’s wrong with how we grade (and a simple way to do it better)

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.

In this episode, Brent Spirnak interviews 9th grade humanities teacher Carol Cabrera about staging student-written “zoom plays” in quarantine.

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.

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 “development” to talking about “learning”, the difference between genes and gene expression, and Mary Helen’s (formidable) woodworking chops.

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.