Alec talks to Jean Kluver and Jeff Robin, co-authors of Changing the Subject: Twenty Years of Projects at High Tech High, about how they wrote the book, what they learned from it, and how they hope schools will use it.
Wagner Marseille didn’t like school much when he was a kid. When he became a superintendent, he decided to try something a little different, by creating project-based program within a 130-year-old public high school.
A conversation about why more engaging learning tends to happen in electives and extracurriculars than during "core classes", and how what we can learn from these "peripheral" classes, teams, and clubs.