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The strategy that changed my classroom forever.

9th graders explored U.S. immigration through human stories, service with local nonprofits, advocacy writing, and a public exhibition.

Goal: to help a teacher come up with creative solutions to a thorny dilemma

Alec Patton talks to Beverley Jenkins and Kate Hogan of the System Improvement Leads Networked Improvement Community and Nicole Leveille of Cloverdale Unified School District about how Cloverdale dramatically increased the percentage of students with IEPs in the general education population, and cut chronic absenteeism among students with disabilities in half.

There are two different questions I often hear from visitors to High Tech High that are both based on the same misconception about project-based learning.  The first is, “How much time should we be spending on PBL per week?” And the second is, “Is it still OK to give lectures?” The answer to both of these questions lies in the understanding that a project isn’t a specific kind of lesson, but rather a specific kind of unit.

Seventh graders ran a mock “Candy Election,” taking on campaign, media, and government roles.

Ron Berger shares how teachers can use model critiques for instructional practices.

When I started teaching, I kept hearing things like, “You’ll want to make sure you set classroom norms in the first week.”

Alec Patton talks to Liz Chu, Executive Director of the Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University, about the new book she co-authored, The Learning Hive: Leading Collective Innovation to Transform Education Systems.