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 [https://hthgse.edu/about/newsletter/]!

Amanda is going to be talking about her work on ninth-grade on track in Oakland at the National Summit for Improvement in Education [https://hthgse.edu/events/national-summit-on-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 [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OhdFI8h1fTC35duUi5V8_JbD2gvjh5UU/view?usp=sharing] 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 [https://hthgse.edu/] to learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

S7E10 - Fremont High School is Changing Grading so It Reflects Learning

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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 [https://hthgse.edu/about/newsletter/]!

Listen to our podcast miniseries about Cheltenham High School's PBL program here [https://hthgse.edu/tag/cheltenham-pbl-experiment/]

See photos from the PBL Farmacy Project here [https://hthgse.edu/podcasts/a-12th-grade-hydroponics-cosmetics-entrepreneurship-project-you-should-know-about]

Click here [https://hthgse.edu/] to learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

S7E9 - A 12th grade hydroponics/cosmetics/entrepreneurship project you should know aboutw

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Alec Patton talks to Tammy Unck, Maria Smith, and Uchenna Lewis about Bernal Intermediate School's work with part 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 [https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/shadowing-multilingual-learners/book274400]**

Also Tan Huynh and Beth Skelton's Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals [https://www.corwin.com/books/long-term-success-for-exp-multi-282896?srsltid=AfmBOorTNJsqqwMAEocIm_UIhUKex3v0RAoc8MkpOIs1Vw_XUvSjdqdf]* *

What are you waiting for, register for the National Summit for Improvement in Education [https://hthgse.edu/events/national-summit-on-improvement-in-education/] before you miss out!

Check out this Blog Post [https://www.partnersinschools.org/blog/seeing-and-hearing-multilingual-learners-shadowing-empathy-interviews-and-amplifying-student-voices] 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 [https://hthgse.edu/]

S7E8 - The Power of Shadowing Multilingual Learners

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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 [https://hthgse.edu/tag/exhibition/]!

Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education [https://hthgse.edu/]

S7E7 - How Exhibitions of Learning Came to Lincoln High School

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Alec Patton talks to Michael McDonald, Steven 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 [https://login.i-ready.com/]

Read this Case Study [https://www.leadingthroughlearning.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Driver-B_Bank-Street-Case.pdf] to learn more about Yonkers' work

Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education [https://hthgse.edu/]

S7E6 - Building Trust with Data: A District-Wide Approach to Improving Math Proficiency

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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&#x27;s Journey [https://www.pblworks.org/blog/overcoming-pbl-hesitancy-math-classroom-teachers-journey]

Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education [https://hthgse.edu/]

S7E5 - Why PBLWorks' Bryon Demerson Went from Test Prep to PBL in Math

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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.

Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education [https://hthgse.edu/]

S7E4 - Transparency, Trust, and Tough Decisions: Leading Change in Battle Creek

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Alec Patton talks to Paola-Capo Garcia 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&#x27;s poetry [https://www.paolacapogarcia.com/]

Learn how you can do professional development [https://hthgse.edu/professional-development/] with Paola and the rest of the team

Learn more about the San Diego Teacher Residency [https://hthgse.edu/degree/sdtr/]

Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education [https://hthgse.edu/]

S7E3 - Piñata-based Learning with Paola Capo-Garcia

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 [https://www.corwin.com/books/grading-for-equity-2nd-edition-281503] by Joe Feldman
 * How to do the 2x10 Strategy (article [https://hthgse.edu/the-2x10-intervention/]) (video [https://hthgse.edu/videos/2-x-10-strategy/])
 * The CARE Network [https://hthgse.edu/ncie/care/]

Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education [https://hthgse.edu/]

S7E2 - Building Belonging and Grading What Matters to Boost Achievement

Episode Notes

In this episode, Alec Patton talks to Hamilton Elementary 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 here [https://hthgse.edu/podcasts/how-hamilton-elementary-cut-its-chronic-absenteeism-rate-in-half/]!

S6E29 - Postcards, Home Visits, and Public Sliming: How Hamiltion Elementary Cut its Chronic Absenteeism Rate in Half in One Year

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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