High Tech High Unboxed Podcast
1) S7E12 - Improving Outcomes for Students with Disabilities at Cloverdale Unified
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 dram...Show More
2) S7E11 - Beyond Bureaucracy and Managerialism: How Learning Hives Transform Schools
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: Le...Show More
3) S7E10 - Fremont High School is Changing Grading so It Reflects Learning
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 o...Show More
4) S7E9 - A 12th grade hydroponics/cosmetics/entrepreneurship project you should know aboutw
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 ...Show More
5) S7E8 - The Power of Shadowing Multilingual Learners
Episode Notes 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 lea...Show More
6) S7E7 - How Exhibitions of Learning Came to Lincoln High School
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 suc...Show More
7) S7E6 - Building Trust with Data: A District-Wide Approach to Improving Math Proficiency
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 particu...Show More
8) S7E5 - Why PBLWorks' Bryon Demerson Went from Test Prep to PBL in Math
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...Show More
9) S7E4 - Transparency, Trust, and Tough Decisions: Leading Change in Battle Creek
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...Show More
S7E4 - Transparency, Trust, and Tough Decisions: Leading Change in Battle Creek
45:40 | Sep 24th, 2025
10) S7E3 - Piñata-based Learning with Paola Capo-Garcia
Episode Notes 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 es...Show More