On today’s podcast: education thought leader and former journalism teacher Esther Wojcicki.

Wojcicki led a renowned journalism program at Palo Alto High School in California for 27 years and is a highly sought speaker on education reform. She is also the board chair of Creative Commons, a nonprofit focused on education and learning, and is a co-founder of the Journalistic Learning Initiative.

In this episode, we discuss her teaching career at Palo Alto and the power of project-based storytelling.

Topics

• 03:36 Wojcicki’s Palo Alto program
• 07:47 The TRICK method
• 10:03 Publishing student work
• 13:09 Taking the grandkids to Target
• 17:48 Giving teachers more control in the classroom