High Tech High - the power of visible learning
Over the next few days, I am lucky enough to be attending the Deeper Learning conference at High Tech High in San Diego. This morning I went on a pre-conference tour with two senior students and a teacher. You'll be glad to know that teachers are an unruly bunch wherever you are on the globe. The students did a stellar job of managing the constant questions fired at them. From the outside, High Tech High is relatively unassuming, a series of school buildings that fail to prepare you for the creativity and visible learning that is evident on every wall and every space in the interior. The Elementary and High School is a series of classrooms, many with glass walls and connected by shared common spaces. The feel is something in between more traditional school structures and the ILEs such as Hobsonville Point Secondary School and Albany Senior High School, possibly most similar to the spaces at Albany Junior High School. In Elementary learning is either integrated or connected w...