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High Tech High Unboxed

High Tech High Unboxed

Stories of learning in and out of school, and interviews with teachers, students, and school leaders. Artwork by the inimitable Enrique "Chikle" Lugo Brought to you by HTH Unboxed: A Journal of Adult Learning in Schools Visit us online at hthunboxed.org

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00:39:44

S7E6 - Building Trust with Data: A District-Wide...

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2025/10/22

Episode NotesAlec Patton talks to Michael McDonald, Stephen Rinaldo, and Tarima Levine about how Yonkers Public Schools and Bank Street Education Center improved eighth grade math proficiency particularly for students who are Black, Latinx, or experiencing poverty. Learn more about the curriculum Yonkers used, i-Ready Mathematics Read this Case Study to learn more about Yonkers' work Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

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00:35:31

S7E5 - Why PBLWorks' Bryon Demerson Went from Test...

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2025/10/08

Episode NotesAlec Patton talks to PBLWorks Lead National Faculty in Math Bryon Demerson about why led him to shift from being a highly successful "traditional" math teacher to embracing project-based learning. Read Bryon's blog post: Overcoming PBL Hesitancy in the Math Classroom: A Teacher's Journey Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

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00:45:40

S7E4 - Transparency, Trust, and Tough Decisions:...

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2025/09/24

Episode NotesAlec Patton talks to Dr. Kim Carter, superintendent of Battle Creek Public Schools in Michigan, about how her district broke a pattern of outmigration through building relationships with families and local businesses and nonprofits based on transparency and LOTS of conversations. Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

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00:45:09

S7E3 - Piñata-based Learning with Paola Capó-García

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2025/09/11

Episode NotesAlec Patton talks to Paola Capó-García about "Politics of the Personal," the twelfth-grade English project she created in which students chose a topic of personal interest to write an essay about—and create a piñata Read more of Paola's poetry See photos from the project Learn how you can do professional development with Paola and the rest of the team Learn more about the San Diego Teacher Residency Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

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00:22:07

S7E2 - Building Belonging and Grading What Matters to...

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2025/08/28

Episode NotesBell Middle School reduced its D/F rate from 51% in 2022 to 28% in 2024. That's a 23 percentage point reduction. Even more impressive, for low income students, the D/F rate was 67% in 2022, and Bell cut it by more than half, down to 29% in 2024. In this episode, Alec Patton talks to science teacher Teddy Meckstroth about how they did it. Mentioned in this episode: Grading for Equity by Joe Feldman How to do the 2x10 Strategy (article) (video) The CARE Network Learn more about the

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00:52:37

S7E1 - Postcards, Home Visits, and Public Sliming:...

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2025/08/04

Episode NotesIn this episode, Alec Patton talks to Hamilton Elementary Principal Dr. Brittany Daley and San Diego County Office of Education Executive Leadership Coach Julia Bridi about how Hamilton cut its chronic absenteeism rate from 24% to 10% in a single year, using creative parent communication, home visits, data checks, and public sliming See photos of the sliming, silly string, and Brittany's rainbow mohawk here! Resources mentioned in this episode: Attendance home visit script ICAN school

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00:13:18

S6E28 - Partners in School Innovation CEO Derek...

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2025/06/23

Episode NotesAlec Patton talks to Derek Mitchell, CEO of Partners in School Innovation, about his daily reading rituals. Mentioned in the episode: Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto Martin Gilbert, Churchill and the Jews Jeanie Daniel Duck, The Change Monster Sheldon Eakins, Leading Equity Brian McClellan, The Powder Mage Trilogy (strictly speaking, Derek mentioned Blood of Empire, which is part of the trilogy that follows the Powder Mage Trilogy) Derek’s recommendations to get

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00:19:28

S6E27 - Tiny Ornithologists: How a Bird Family...

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2025/06/12

Episode NotesIn this episode, Alec Patton talks to Maria Curtis, director of the Early Childhood Center at La Jolla Country Day School, in California, and Junior Kindergarten teacher Kristin Owen, about how they turned the discovery of a mud nest being built outside a classroom into a year-long project. You can see photos from the project, including photos of the book, here (as soon as the link is live). This episode is part of an occasional series on Regenerative Education. Here are the other

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00:36:35

S6E26 - How to Package a Process, with Bedtime in a Box

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2025/06/06

Episode NotesSofía Tannenhaus talks to Jarrod Bolte, CEO of both Improving Education and Bedtime in a Box, a nonprofit that provides families with boxes containing everything you need for a positive bedtime routine. Each Box contains four age-appropriate books; bath wash, a towel, and bath toys; a toothbrush and toothpaste; pajamas; a stuffed animal; an alarm clock; a Teach My Learning Kit; and a kid-friendly routine log. Bedtime in a Box has delivered more than 50,000 Boxes so far, with 80% going

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00:51:06

S6E25 - Solar for All Schools [guest episode from the...

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2025/05/28

Episode NotesThis episode comes from the Climify podcast, which is hosted by Eric Benson, and produced by the Climate Designers Network. Benson interviews Tish Tablan, senior program director at Generation 180, about how going solar can benefit schools' budgets and provide opportunities for PBL, as well as helping us all thrive as we face an unprecedented climate crisis. Links: Check out This Episode on Climify Check out all the great episodes on the Climify website Climify Design Class Resources

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00:46:59

S6E24 - Improving College Transfer Enrollment with...

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2025/05/22

Episode NotesAlec Patton talks to Juliette Price, the senior Improvement Science coach at the National Association of Higher Education Systems, about how their Network Improvement Community has achieved its remarkable results on transfer enrollments from two-year to four-year colleges. You know you want to try it: David Williams’s Mr. Potato Head Game Check out Juliette’s Substack Newsletter, This Is Your Brain On Improvement Read more about NASH

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00:47:02

S6E23 - Okorie Johnson (OkCello): music and education...

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2025/05/16

Episode NotesBen Krueger talks to cellist, composer, and teacher Okorie Johnson, who performs as OkCello, about music, teaching, and community. And, appropriately, they talk about how all three of those are, themselves, a form of conversation. OkCello Website Learn more about the PBL Leadership Academy

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00:25:14

S6E20 - Anthropology for Kids, with Nika Dubrovsky

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2025/05/14

Episode Notes Alec talks to Nika Dubrovsky about Anthropology for Kids, a project she started with her husband, anthropologist David Graeber. Referenced in this Episode: Anthopology for Kids Cities Made Differently by David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow David Graeber on the Charlie Rose Show Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky, “Another Art World, Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity” David

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00:25:12

S6E22 - The Big Power of Small Changes, with RISE

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2025/05/07

Episode NotesAlec talks to Linzi Golding, Erin Asselin, and Melanie Gonzalez about keeping things simple, celebrating small changes, smart ways to share data with schools, and how to recognize and celebrate effort, even when it doesn’t lead to the outcomes we were hoping for. To see an example of a driver diagram (and get a transcript for this episode) click here Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, Improvement Science: A Primer RISE Grade 9 Symposium Learn more about the RISE Data hub

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00:27:00

S6E21 - The Student Voice Revolution: How Teach Plus...

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2025/05/01

Episode NotesAlec talks to Cary Sabados (national director of teacher leadership development at Teach Plus) and Morgan Hython (fourth grade math and science teacher at Piccolo School of Excellence, a public preK-to-8 school in Chicago) about their work in the Teach Plus Network for School Improvement. Learn more about Teach Plus Learn more about the National Coalition for Improvement in Education

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01:20:36

S6E19 - Liberating Learning One District at a Time

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2025/04/23

Episode NotesStacey Caillier talks to Michelle Pledger and David Montes de Oca about the ways that school districts are using Michelle's book, "Liberate: Pocket-Sized Paradigms for Liberatory Learning" You can find Michelle's book, and Montes's study guide, here You can find Michelle's podcast, Unapologetic and Uninterrupted, here

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00:42:36

S6E17 - Dr. Heather Michel on How to Take Care of...

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2025/04/16

Episode NotesIf you want to try a body scan, try this 11-minute guided body scan by meditation teacher Tara Brach. You can find journal prompts and affirmations on the Teachers of Color Matter website, here. Learn more about the Deeper Learning Conference.

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00:28:44

S6E16 - Molodi's Jason Nious on Stepping, Body...

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2025/04/08

Episode NotesLearn more about Molodi Learn more about the Deeper Learning Conference

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01:06:40

S6E15 - Schools Can Get Better At Unleashing Student...

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2025/04/02

Episode NotesIn this special live episode from the 2025 Deeper Learning Conference, educator Ron Berger talks to two Japanese educators and their two brilliant children, who have experienced education across cultures in Japan, the United States, and Europe.

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00:48:32

S6E14 - Improvement in Action: Leveraging Data...

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2025/03/28

Episode NotesThe RISE Network Website The RISE Data Hub Nichelle’s other appearance on the High Tech High Unboxed podcast is here Nichelle and Eileen’s favorite data protocols: KidStat Data Protocol Attendance 3Rs Data Dive Protocol Student-Centered Data

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