High Tech High Unboxed

Episode Notes Juli Coleman, Chief of Improvement for School Networks at the CORE Districts in California talks to Dr. Brandi Nicole Hinnant-Crawford, an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Clemson University, Dr. Louis Gomez, a Distinguished Professor of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, about doing improvement with the goal of advancing equity in education during the current moment. Learn more about continuous improvement Every other week, we publish a newsletter with great resources like this one, sign up for it here!

Episode Notes In this live recording from the 2026 National Summit for Improvement in Education, Partners in School Innovation CEO Derek Mitchell interviews Tenette Smith and Elise Brown about their roles in Mississippi's extraordinary improvement in reading, and how they are bringing the lessons from that into their new work in Maryland. Learn more about continuous improvement Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes In this live crossover event for the National Summit on Improvement in Education and the Deeper Learning Conference, Alec Patton interviews Ben Daley, Jim May, and Ash Vasudeva about what deeper learning and continuous improvement have to offer each other. Learn more about deeper learning Learn more about continuous improvement Click here to learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education ****

Alec Patton talks to Patrick Yurick about how High Tech High Chula Vista came together to create a mural as a memorial to one of its students, Sean Fuchs. This episode is about a disturbing subject—we don't recommend listening with kids around. Episode Resources: Photos of the completed mural (both versions) and more "Choosing Sean," an article Patrick Yurick wrote for Unboxed The Imagine Mural in Changing the Subject __Sean Fuchs performing the poem that inspired the Imagine Mural Every other week, we publish a newsletter with great resources like this one, sign up for it here! Click here to learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes In this episode, Stacey Caillier talks to Cornelius Minor about what it means to be bold in education right now, and the journey he and his colleagues took from observing a problem to making meaningful change with students. Every other week, we publish a newsletter with great resources like this one, sign up for it here! What are you waiting for? Sign up for National Summit for Improvement in Education or The Deeper Learning Conference (March 30-April 1st)! Watch this if you’re trying to figure out which conference to come to. Learn all about Cornelius Minor and The Minor Collective here. Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec talks to Robyn Snyder, Director of Supplemental Services at Clovis Unified School District, Ray Gamez, the principal of Janet L. Young Elementary School, and JJ Donat, who’s the guidance instructional specialist at Janet L. Young, about how that school cut the suspension rate for African-American students from 8.7%. to 4.2% in a single year. Every other week, we publish a newsletter with great resources like this one, sign up for it here! What are you waiting for, register for the National Summit for Improvement in Education before you miss out! If you're looking for a good introduction to Continuous Improvement in education, start here.

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. Every other week, we publish a newsletter with great resources like this one, sign up for it here! What are you waiting for, register for the National Summit for Improvement in Education before you miss out! Episode Notes: You can read an article by Kate Hogan and Sandra Park about this improvement network on Unboxed here ! To learn more about the System Improvement Leads (SIL) team and their supports, visit  systemimprovement.org To learn more about California’s Compliance and Improvement Monitoring process, visit  caltan.info In partnership with Cloverdale, SIL has published a strategy handout  linked here Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes 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. __ Every other week, we publish a newsletter with great resources like this one, sign up for it here! What are you waiting for, register for the National Summit for Improvement in Education before you miss out! Referenced in this episode: The Learning Hive: Leading Collective Innovation to Transform Systems (Teachers College Press 2025) by Elizabeth Chu, Andrea Clay, Ayeola Kinlaw, and Meghan Snyder An Innovative New Vision of Leadership and Governance in Education: Learning Hives Show What's Possible (Teachers College Press blog) The CARPE network Partners in School Innovation Click here to learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes In this episode, Alec Patton talks to math teachers Sunny Chan and Sandy Tu, and improvement coach Amanda Meyer, about Fremont High School's remarkable success at improving ninth-grade on track. Every other week, the High Tech High Graduate School of Education publishes a newsletter with great resources like this one, sign up for it here! Amanda is going to be talking about her work on ninth-grade on track in Oakland at the National Summit for Improvement in Education. It'll be like experiencing this podcast episode in 3D! Book now so you don't miss out! Resources mentioned in the episode: The Gradebook Review protocol used in the Breakthrough Success Collaborative was adapted from High Tech High Graduate School of Education's CARE Network.  The Gradebook Audit protocol mentioned in the episode was co-developed between educators in Oakland Unified and the Breakthrough Success Community To learn more about the Breakthrough Success Community and how to join, visit  https://www.btsc.coredistricts.org/ Click here to learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to teacher High School teacher Karen Shaffran and student Alegria Vargas about how their class created a socially conscious cosmetics business, featuring products made from plants grown hydroponically in a storage room! Every other week, we publish a newsletter with great resources like this one, sign up for it here! Listen to our podcast miniseries about Cheltenham High School's PBL program here See photos from the PBL Farmacy Project here Click here to learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to Tammy Unck, Maria Smith, and Uchenna Lewis about Bernal Intermediate School's work with Partners in School Innovation on improving outcomes for multilingual learners, using techniques such as "shadow a student" and elements of the AVID curriculum. The result was remarkable: During the 2022-2023 school year, Bernal achieved a 250% increase in the rate of multilingual learners reclassified to fluent English proficient status! Check out Ivannia Soto's Shadowing Multilingual Learners** Also Tan Huynh and Beth Skelton's Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals* * What are you waiting for, register for the National Summit for Improvement in Education before you miss out! Check out this Blog Post from Partners in School Innovation with resources for student shadowing and so much more! Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to Lincoln High School Principal Melissa Agudelo about the challenges of bringing exhibitions of student learning to a large urban high school, and how they made it successful by literally doing everything all at once. Want do bring exhibitions to your school, or take your exhibition game to the next level? Check out our resources here! Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec 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

Episode Notes Alec 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

Episode Notes Alec 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. Dr. Carter is a member of the National Attendance & Engagement Meta Network Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec 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

Episode Notes Bell 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 High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes In 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 team self-assessment rubric How to do a 2x10 intervention (article) (video) Interview with Simon Breakspear about the Pruning Principle (podcast episode) Learn more about how the RAISE Network is tackling chronic absenteeism in California here Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec 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 started: Morning reading: Barack Obama, Dreams from my Father Lunch reading: Rudy Crew, Only Connect Evening reading: Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land Click here to learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes In 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 episodes in the series (so far): Derek Mitchell and Scott Sampson on Regenerative Education Green School: Regenerative Education in the Balinese Jungle Green School Student Louis Lacour A Story of Butterflies, Regeneration, and Hope Solar for All Schools [guest episode from the Climify podcast] Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Sofía 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 to families experiencing poverty. Resources mentioned in the episode: Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto Bedtime in a Box website Kobi Yamada and Mae Besom, What Do You Do with an Idea? Click here to learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes This 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 Learn more about Cradle to Cradle Design, and check out the book that started it all! Other episodes in the High Tech High Unboxed Regenerative Education Series: Derek Mitchell and Scott Sampson on Regenerative Education Green School: Regenerative Education in the Balinese Jungle Green School Student Louis Lacour A Story of Butterflies, Regeneration, and Hope Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec 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 Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Ben 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 Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton 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 Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky, “Another Art World Part 2: Utopia of Freedom as a Market Value” Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton 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 Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec 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

Episode Notes Stacey 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 Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to Deeper Learning 2025 keynote speaker Dr. Heather Michel about about her difficult experience with school as a kid, her own career as a teacher, and the strategies that she’s developed to help teachers take care of themselves. If 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 Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to Jason Nious, founder of the stepping and body percussion crew Molodi, about the journey that brought him here, and about what he’s learned from dance and body percussion about connecting to young people in school. Learn more about Molodi Learn more about the Deeper Learning Conference Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes In 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. Learn more about the Deeper Learning Conference Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes In this episode, Alec talks to Nichelle Woodson, the Chief of Network Success at RISE Eileen Mezzo, an Assistant Principal at Naugatuck High School in Connecticut. They talk about how the RISE Network has achieved remarkable gains in ninth-grade on track rates (for example, on-track for Black students has risen by 27 percentage points since 2015). The 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 Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to fifth grade teacher Jeff Govoni about a project he and his fifth grade colleagues did last year, in which students designed and built dog houses and cat condos for animals seeking adoption. Read Jeff Govoni's article for Unboxed, about this (and other) projects, "Deconstructing Construction Projects" For more ideas about assessing projects, check out our episode with physics teacher Ted Cuevas, "How to Assess Students like Scouts" Read Ron Berger's thoughts on Models of Excellence Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to Sara DeMartino, an English Language Arts Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Learning (IFL), about how schools in the IFL's network for school improvement increased 8th grade on track for Black and Latine students by more than 25 percentage points, and improved on-track rates for Emerging Bilingual Students from 35% to 80%, since 2018. Check out the Institute For Learning’s Vision of Collaborative Work! Here’s what Sara DeMartino says about it: “While the driver diagram was helpful in thinking through the theory of change, we found teachers and leaders, more than anything, wanted to know the role that they played in that theory and the role other members of the system were playing as well. We reviewed this document at the beginning of each year to make sure it still held, but also as a way to remind all of us that we had a stake in making change and were responsible for supporting the vision of teaching and learning that we collectively set.” Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec talks to Shelley Glenn Lee, director of High Tech Elementary North County, and Durrell Kapan, a Senior Research Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences, about how the Silvery Blue butterfly is filling the ecological niche left by the extinction of the Xerces Blue butterfly in San Francisco... with some help from Durrell and his team Check out this video about the sIlvery blue/Xerces blue surrogacy project! The Silvery Blue/Xerces surrogacy project began with the ideas of Robert Michael Pyle, and have since included many partners. These include Robert Michael Pyle's Xerces Society, Creekside Science, and Revive and Restore. Durrell Kapan wanted to take the opportunity of these notes to say a bit more about his biology teacher Neal Maine (who threw the book out the window). Here's a note from Durrell: "It’s relevant to note that Neal's impact has been far-reaching—not only on the students he taught but also on the conservation programs he helped begin. These include the Haystack Rock Awareness program, which started with a “failed” non-game grant application I made under his tutelage that led to the city starting the program (I worked on it for two years, first as an interpreter and later as the coordinator), and the North Coast Land Conservancy, which has conserved thousands of acres of the Oregon Coast, started by Neal Maine after he retired." Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Sofía Tannenhaus talks to Julie Smith, co-founder of Community Design Partners, and Casey Chiofolo, an Assistant Principal at Respect Academy, an Alternative High School in Denver, about how Respect Academy dramatically improved first period attendance by talking to kids about what they wanted from school, and what was keeping them from getting there on time. Community Design Partners’ library of Student-Powered Improvement resources In his work, Casey drew particularly on this guide: Building Student-Powered Classrooms Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, “What Improvers Can Learn from Civil Rights Organizers” Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton and Nuvia Ruland talk to artist Scarlett Baily about her life, her art, and in particular the process of collaborating with 200 elementary school students Check out a photo gallery of Scarlett's murals here Scarlett Baily's website Kumeyaay Community College Website Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to Amiee Winchester and Zack Jaffe about their continuous improvement work on improving literacy at Baltimore City Public Schools. Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to Dr. Simon Breakspear about the book he co-wrote with Michael Rosenbrock, "The Pruning Principle: Mastering the Art of Strategic Subtraction Within Education" Our other episode with Simon Breakspear, “If It Doesn’t Work for Teachers, It Doesn’t Work” You can find great free tools (and order The Pruning Principle) at pruningprinciple.com Simon mentions Cal Newport. You can find out more about his “20% over capacity” principle in this blog post: What Would Happen If We Slowed Down? Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to Sean Mortimer, co-author of autobiographies by Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, and Joe Namath, about how to help people figure out how to tell the stories of their achievements—whether they're pro skaters or educators. Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to Ron Berger about why learning targets put kids in charge of their own learning, and how to make sure they are a success in your class. Leaders of Their Own Learning by Ron Berger, Leah Woodfin, and Leah Rugen Other podcast episodes featuring Ron Berger: Ron Berger on Presentations of Learning Ron Berger on Student-Led Conferences Ron Berger on Whole-Class Close Reading Ron Berger on Beautiful Lessons and “No Lesson at All” Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to physics teacher Ted Cuevas about why portfolios and badges are a better way to assess student learning, and how he does assessment in his class. Learn more about the “Light on Literacy” project Check out the platform that Ted uses for student portfolios, Inkwire We have another scouting-connected podcast episode! Eduard Vallory: What School Can Learn From Catalonian Scouting Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Stacey Caillier and Curtis Taylor talk to Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford about what Septima Clark, Ella Baker, and Bayard Rustin can teach us about continuous improvement. Learn more about Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford’s work here Brandi’s other episodes on this podcast: Dr. Brandi Hinnant Crawford, Improvement as a Tool for Our Collective Liberation (High Tech High Unboxed podcast) Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford & Dr. Luke Wood at Gates CoP NSI (High Tech High Unboxed podcast) Articles, books, and people referenced in this episode: “ImproveCrit: Using Critical Race Theory to Guide Continuous Improvement,” by Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, Ericka Lytle Lett, and Shamella Cromartie, appears in Continuous Improvement: A Leadership Process for School Improvement Septima Clark, “Literacy and Liberation” Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Bettina Love, Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal Adrienne Marie-Brown, Octavia’s Brood Decoteau J. Irby, Stuck Improving The Interrelationship Digraph (Stacey’s favorite protocol) Amanda Meyer has two articles on Unboxed, both very much worth reading! Improvement as a Journey and Swimming Against the Current: Resisting White Dominant Culture in Improvement Work Khalifa, M. A., Jennings, M. E., Briscoe, F., Oleszweski, A. M., & Abdi, N. (2014). Racism? Administrative and community perspectives in data-driven decision making: Systemic perspectives versus technical-rational perspectives. Urban Education, 49(2), 147-181. To learn more about QuantCrit, look out for this piece (once it is published): Castillo, W., & Gillborn, D. (2022). How to “QuantCrit:” Practices and questions for education data researchers and users. Manuscript under review. Louis Gomez is a professor at UCLA Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec Patton talks to High School teacher John Santos about how he and his students explored AI together, and how it became a tool for building curiosity. John Santos's other episodes on the podcast: Rigor shouldn't mean Some Kids Fail (a better grading strategy—easy to implement too!) How to Design a Great Project Launch The AI project-planning tool that John talks about is the AI Kaleidoscope by Inkwire and the High Tech High GSE Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec talks to High Tech High Graduate School of Education president Ben Daley about one of the most powerful (and simplest) data-collection tools in the world: the “by-name list.” We start the episode by talking about the book Upstream by Dan Heath. It's really good—you should read it. You can find more find more podcast episodes, articles, and videos about Continuous Improvement here! You can find a transcript of this episode here. Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Kelly Wilson, HTH GSE Dean, talks to Louis Lacour, an eleventh grader at Green School in Bali, about project-based learning, local renewable energy infrastructure, and his plan to transform reef conservation with biodegradable zip ties! You should also listen to Kelly's interview with Benjamin Freud, head of Green School's Upper School You can see the 2023 Greenstone presentations here Green School website Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Kelly Wilson, HTH GSE Dean, talks to Benjamin Freud, head of Upper School at Green School in Bali, about doing socially-meaningful, student-driven PBL grounded in the local community, in a school with bamboo buildings and no walls. Cofounder John Hardy’s Ted Talk about the Green School Green School website Coconut Thinking Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec talks to Partners in School Innovation CEO Derek Mitchell and Executive Director of California Academy of Sciences Scott Sampson about what "regenerative education" is, and why the world needs it right now. The Nature article about the dinosaur Masiakasaurus Knopfleri Smithsonian article about Majungasaurus To find out about Derek’s history with cockroaches listen to this episode The UK’s National Education Nature Park project Dacher Keltner, the researcher studying awe, on the On Being podcast Reimagining San Francisco Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes Alec talked to 23-year-old keyboard player, band leader, public speaker, and Akron, Ohio native Kofi B mere hours before Kofi kicked off the 2024 Deeper Learning conference with an incendiary set! Kofi B’s opening performance at Deeper Learning 2024 Kofi B’s Closing Keynote at Deeper Learning 2024 Where to find Kofi B's music: Instagram TikTok Youtube Facebook Website Made in Akron documentary Do you want to come to a conference whose opening act is this good? Of course you do! Learn more about the Deeper Learning Conference! Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Episode Notes At Deeper Learning, Alec just started recording this interview to show Jessica how the mics worked—but once she started talking, he knew it was going to be an episode! Learn more about Nowell Academy Here Learn more about the Deeper Learning Conference here Find all the podcast episodes from Deeper Learning 2024 here Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education