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Living together in a group is a strategy many animals use to survive and thrive. And a big part of what makes that living situation successful is listening. In this episode, we explore the collaborative world of the naked mole-rat. Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced. You can support Threshold by donating today . To stay connected, sign up for our newsletter . Operation frog sound! Send us your frog sounds for an upcoming episode. We want you to go out, listen for frogs and toads, and record them. Just find someone croaking, and hit record on your phone. It doesn’t matter if there’s background noise. It doesn’t even matter if you’re not sure whether or not you’re hearing an amphibian—if you think you are, we would love to get a recording from you. Please also say your name and where you are in the world, and then email the recording to us at outreach@thresholdpodcast.org…

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S4E13 - How to Design a Great Project Launch, with John Santos

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Watch Personalized Learning through Collaborative Experiences (the companion video to this episode)

Listen to John Santos’s other Podcast Episode: “‘Rigor’ Shouldn’t Mean ‘Some Kids Fail’”

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S4E13 - How to Design a Great Project Launch, with John Santos

High Tech High Unboxed

published hace 2 años

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Episode Notes

Watch Personalized Learning through Collaborative Experiences (the companion video to this episode)

Listen to John Santos’s other Podcast Episode: “‘Rigor’ Shouldn’t Mean ‘Some Kids Fail’”

146 episodios

#Podcasting Education #High Tech High Unboxed

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S6E16 - Molodi's Jason Nious on Stepping, Body Percussion, and Connecting with Students 28:44

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

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S6E15 - Schools Can Get Better At Unleashing Student Potential (with Ron Berger and friends) 1:06:40

hace 7 días1:06:40

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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.

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S6E14 - Improvement in Action: Leveraging Data Routines for 9th Grade On-Track Results 48:32

hace 12 días48:32

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Episode Notes 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

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S6E13 - Building dog houses (and cat condos!) for adopted pets with fifth graders

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Episode Notes 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…

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S6E12 - How One District Improved On-track by Shifting Their System Towards More Student-centered Practices 30:00

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Episode Notes 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.”…

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S6E11 - A Story of Butterflies, Regeneration, and Hope 39:51

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Episode Notes 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."…

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S6E10 - Tackling Chronic Absenteeism by Asking Students What They Need 42:08

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Episode Notes 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”

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S6E9 - How to collaborate on a mural with 200 elementary-schoolers, with Scarlett Baily 48:59

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Episode Notes Check out a photo gallery of Scarlett's murals here Scarlett Baily's website Kumeyaay Community College Website

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S6E8 - Improving Literacy in a Large Urban District, with Amiee Winchester and Zack Jaffe 46:33

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Episode Notes Alec talks to Amiee Winchester and Zack Jaffe about their continuous improvement work on improving literacy at Baltimore City Public Schools.

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S6E7 - Simon Breakspear: using "the pruning principle" to achieve better outcomes through strategic subtraction 52:09

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Episode Notes 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? Come join us at Deeper Learning 2025 !…

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S6E6 - Sean Mortimer (Tony Hawk’s co-author) on how to help people tell their stories 36:59

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Episode Notes Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters

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S6E5 - Ron Berger: Empower Students by Giving Them Learning Targets 51:08

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Episode Notes 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”…

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S6E4 - Ted Cuevas: How to Assess Students Like Scouts 38:57

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Episode Notes 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

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S6E3 - Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford: What improvers can learn from civil rights organizers 57:21

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Episode Notes 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…

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S6E2 - AI for Technophobic Teachers, with John Santos 20:45

hace 29 weeks20:45