Professional Development

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Learn about innovative practices in our k-12 schools and graduate school of education through a variety of professional development offerings including HTH GSE Collegial ConversationsResidencies and Institutes and Workshops, as well as our UnBoxed Journal & Speaker Series.  Our intensive professional development enables practitioners, school leaders, community partners, and small school advocates to learn about our principles and practices and to network with colleagues.

We are also currently accepting applications for our NEW Leading Schools Program, a one-year hybrid program designed to support teams of educators from around the world in transforming their schools, and our Master's Programs in Teacher Leadership and School Leadership.






HTH GSE COLLEGIAL CONVERSATIONS

Collegial Conversations are designed to foster a learning community of educators working to create authentic, meaningful learning opportunities for students and colleagues. Discussions are structured to help educators inform and improve their practice, while introducing protocols that can be used to guide conversations about teaching, learning and leadership at their own schools. These events are great opportunities to network with educators around San Diego and the world who are engaged in shaping innovative schools of the future. Collegial conversations were inspired by the [Harvard Rounds].

Using various protocols, educators collaborate in small groups to look at student work, tune projects, and share dilemmas arising in their teaching or leadership practice. We encourage teachers from pre-K through high school to attend, as well as university faculty, community members, and others interested in education.

Face-to-face: 10:30 - 11:30 am (lunch following from 11:30 - 12:00 pm); High Tech High Graduate School of Education, 2855 Farragut Road, San Diego, CA 92106. 
For a listing of past conversation topics, [click here].


Online: 10:30 - 11:30 am (PST); Second Saturday of every month (September-June) To learn how to participate from anywhere in the world using Elluminate, [click here].

 

To RSVP for this month's conversation online or face-to-face, [click here].



HTH GSE RESIDENCIES & INSTITUTES

Residencies and Institutes are embedded in our K-12 schools and facilitated by HTH students, teachers and school leaders, as well as faculty from the graduate school of education. Participants engage in interactive workshops, observe classrooms and meet in teams to plan how they will put to practice new ideas at their school sites.


 

Monday, August 8 through Tuesday, August 16, 2011

On a space-available basis, teachers and school leaders are invited to attend the HTH Odyssey, the pre-school professional development event for all new HTH teachers. In this immersion experience, participants will explore how to support teachers in a collaborative, project-based environment while experiencing first-hand the leadership and organization required at a school�s new teacher training and opening faculty meetings. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of tone on the first day of school and the level of detail that is required for a successful school opening. Participants will also work alongside new HTH teachers and learn to create digital portfolios, design engaging, rigorous projects, share their work through Presentations of Learning, and facilitate collegial conversations. [2010 Agenda]  
 

 

FALL RESIDENCY - Project Based Learning
Wednesday, October 5 through Friday, October 7, 2011

This residency is tailored for teachers and school staff who are new to project based learning and the High Tech High design principles.  Agenda items will include "HTH 101: An Overview", "Project Based Learning 101" as well as classroom observations.  
[
2011 Draft Agenda]

 

WINTER RESIDENCY - Presentations of Learning
Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 2012

The focus of this residency is Presentations of Learning and other forms of assessment at High Tech High schools.  New and returning teachers will  have ample opportunities to observe classrooms and interact with HTH students, teachers, and administrators.

[2012 Draft Agenda] 

 

LEADERSHIP SUMMIT - Leadership for School Change - 
Leadership Summit - Friday, February 17 Optional school visit - Thursday, February 16

The goal of this summit is to bring together school leaders to explore what it means to guide the change process in teacher-driven schools. Participants will hear from a panel of small school leaders from across charter and not-charter, public school networks discuss leadership challenges in their own contexts, engage in various workshops facilitated by HTH directors (e.g. utilizing protocols to structure conversations about teaching and learning, using video to inform practice, incorporating student voice in the school change process, etc.) and, in the spirit of the unConference and TeachMeet, share best practices from their own sites. School leaders that have not visited the High Tech High schools or wish to spend more time in classrooms are encouraged to participate in an optional school visit on the day before, which will include time with HTH students, faculty and directors. We welcome teacher leaders, school leaders, chief academic officers, CEOs and others involved in school reform to participate. Registration is closed for this event.


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SUMMER INSTITUTE - Sharing Best Practices
Monday, June 25 through Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The Summer Institute is HTH Learning's largest annual event. Practitioners, school leaders, community partners, and charter and small school advocates from across the country come to High Tech High to learn about our principles and practices and network with colleagues engaged in new school development and reform efforts. The Summer Institute features interactive sessions on topics such as project-based learning, integrating math and science, working with diverse learners in heterogeneous classrooms, and more.

2011 Summer Institute Program (PDF)


If you or a team from your school would like to visit our schools for additional days before or after a residency or institute or experience a personalized residency with school tours on alternative dates, please contact our Program Manager Hayley Murugesan by email hmurugesan@hightechhigh.org or phone (619) 398-4902. Presentations of Learning, where students reflect on their learning using evidence from their digital portfolios to a panel of faculty and community members, also occur at some of our schools in mid-December and mid-June.




HTH GSE WORKSHOPS
At your school site!


HTH teachers, school leaders and faculty from the graduate school of education are available to visit your school and facilitate professional development with faculty. We offer the following workshops, as well as personalized workshops based on the interests and needs of your school.


PROJECT BASED LEARNING 101

This workshop is designed for schools new to project based learning, particularly those who wish to build buy-in and work toward a common vision of teaching and learning. Faculty reflect on significant learning experiences from their own lives to extract core features of meaningful learning experiences in general. They then engage in a backwards design process, guided by these features and Adria Steinberg's 6 As, to design an engaging, rigorous project for their students, which they tune with colleagues. Participants leave with a project proposal and feedback on that proposal to guide their next steps.

IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF STUDENT WORK THROUGH CRITIQUE & REVISION
Inspired by our work with Ron Berger in fostering an ethic of excellence with students, HTH teachers incorporate student-driven processes for critique and revision to support the creation of beautiful work. Participants will learn how to support the design of high quality products in project-based learning environments.

USING VIDEO TO INFORM PRACTICE AND GUIDE COLLEGIAL COACHING
Faculty explore the role of video in collegial coaching to support teacher reflection and collaboration. Participants will analyze video of teaching, engage in role plays, and leave with ideas and tools to support collegial coaching in their own schools.

UTILIZING PROTOCOLS TO STRUCTURE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TEACHING AND LEARNING
Faculty explore the art of facilitation and use of protocols to guide purposeful conversations about teaching and learning. Participants will use video to examine facilitation moves, engage in protocols and reflect on how to improve teacher-led dialogue about teaching and learning at their schools.


If you would like HTH educators to visit your school and facilitate a workshop, please contact our Program Manager Hayley Murugesan by email hmurugesan@hightechhigh.org or phone (619) 398-4902



The UnBoxed JOURNAL & SPEAKER SERIES

UnBoxed: The Journal of Adult Learning in Schools is a journal of reflections on purpose, practice and policy in education, published twice yearly by the High Tech High Graduate School of Education. Educators from our K-12 schools and graduate school, as well as educational innovators and reformers from around the country, share fierce wonderings and reflections on their work. We welcome submissions from teachers, administrators, students, teacher educators, policymakers, researchers, and other informed observers of education. All content is freely available online and designed to engage, inspire, and provoke. [Click here] to peruse or purchase UnBoxed.

Read, respond, and join in the conversation!

 

Join us for the Education UnBoxed Speaker Series, discussions with innovative thinkers and change agents leading school reform efforts across the country. Discussions are designed to be interactive and engage participants both face-to-face in San Diego and online, live through Elluminate. Past speakers have included Howard Fuller, Gary Orfield, Michael Horn, James Gee and Geoffrey Cohen on topics related to desegregation, the achievement gap, stereotype threat, and innovative uses of technology to build communities that traverse race, class and gender boundaries. [Click here] for more information about the next Speaker Series event. 

These events are free and open to the public.



Updated: February 3, 2012, 1:00 pm





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