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 Conversations, Residencies 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.
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
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.
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT - Leadership for School Change -
Leadership Summit - Friday, February 17 Optional school visit - Thursday, February 16
[Hotel Accommodations] [Draft Agenda]
The focus of this residency is observing the process of HTH schools preparing for their annual exhibition of student learning. During Exhibition Night, scheduled for Thursday, students from HTH schools exhibit their work for authentic audiences in a dizzying array of creative formats. Past exhibitions have included a World War I era restaurant and cabaret, an art gallery, a museum-like exhibit on the history and physics of baseball, simulations of faraway ecologies, and many other thought-provoking and educational displays.
Early Registration fee: $500/ per participant prior to March 1. Late Registration fee: $600/ per participant after March 1 on a space-available basis
[Pay with Credit Card] [Hotel Accommodations]
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!
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.
