High Tech High Unboxed

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Learn more about Latitude High School on their website, https://latitudehigh.org/

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The website that LeDerick recommends is https://www.educatingalllearners.org/

Writing referenced in this episode:

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang's book is Emotions, Learning, and the Brain

The Aspen Institute report is "The Brain Basis for Integrated Social Emotional and Academic Development"

If you want to know more about the stuff we talked about, or just have thoughts to share, hit up Alec (@alecpatton) and Nuvia (@CRISOLguerra) on Twitter

You can find all our podcasts, videos, articles, and "project essentials" toolkits at High Tech High Unboxed.

If you have ideas for stories, get in touch with Alec on Twitter: @alecpatton

You can find all our podcasts, videos, articles, and "project essentials" toolkits at High Tech High Unboxed.

If you have ideas for stories, get in touch with Alec on Twitter: @alecpatton

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The Fishbone Diagram and Interrelationship Digraph that Julie Ruble's group made.

You can get a PDF of an effort-impact chart here.

To find out more about High Tech High's teacher induction program, visit the High Tech High Teacher Center

You can find all our podcasts, videos, articles, and "project essentials" toolkits at High Tech High Unboxed.

If you have ideas for stories, get in touch with Alec on Twitter: @alecpatton

Our other podcast episode featuring Ron Berger is "Ron Berger on the magic of beautiful lessons, and of "no lesson at all"

Stacey Caillier's interview with Ron Berger is “Crafting Beautiful Lessons: An Interview with Ron Berger”

Resources from EL Education:

This video shows Peter Hill's 8th grade science class at King Middle School (Portland, Maine) grappling with an article about how magnets and wires generate electricity.

Episode Transcript here

You can learn more about all the awesome work LeDerick Horne is doing at his website, lederick.com

The poem at the start of the episode is called "New Beginning". You can hear it on LeDerick Horne's first album, Rhyme Reason and Song. You can also see LeDerick performing it here.

LeDerick's book, which he wrote with Margaret Vreeburg Izzo, is called

To see if there's an organization like the California Innocence Project near you, visit www.innocencenetwork.org

Table of Contents

1:29 What the California Innocence Project does, and how XONR8 helps them

2:17 XONR8: the project in a nutshell

3:31 XONR8: Origins (how Mackenzie came up with the idea for it)

5:15 How XONR8 starts: deciphering autopsy reports

6:17 Gavin & Sofia on figuring out the autopsy reports

7:48 Step 2: the whole class looks at a case file together

8:23 Step 3: the students get assigned a real case file

9:38 How Mackenzie makes groups and decides how to assign cases

10:40 Gavin and Sofia on how it felt to get their case files

12:04 Structures for project-management within groups

12:58 Sofia and Gavin on how well their groups worked together

14:09 The low point of the project for Sofia and Gavin

15:43 The verdict that Gavin's group reached

16:07 The verdict that Sofia's group reached

16:54 Preparing to present to the Innocence Project lawyers

17:27 Giving the presentations

19:26 High Tech High students are better prepared and better presenters than the law students

20:13 Differentiating for kids who struggle with reading

20:59 The other part of the project: Reading "Just Mercy" by Brian Stevenson

You can listen to our episode about how Calexico High School raised their FAFSA completion rates by 13 percentage points in one year here.

Table of Contents

1:40 The three questions that define "Improvement with a capital I"

1:56 How improvement normally happens, and what's missing (with an example from a classroom)

3:44 The CARPE College Access Network's plan to raise FAFSA completion

4:41 The CARPE network's four recommended FAFSA practices

7:31 "We tend to underestimate how much rich work goes into the implementation of an idea"

8:20 Ben's take on whether "handholding" is a problem in the college application process

9:39 How Ben learned to stop worrying and love specific suggestions

10:42 There are SO much stuff to improve in our schools, so if someone has some ideas, that's pretty compelling

11:56 A revolutionary idea: maybe not everyone does everything they plan to do

13:03 How the CARPE team actually collected data about what schools were doing

15:32 School Improvement Networks: a secret tool for influencing education policy