Our very own Martin Said was featured on the BBC’s ‘The One Show’ last night with a special thanks from his former student Joe Allan. Â You can watch the full episode here or the excerpt below.
Category : Community
CEO of High Tech High promises to visit
Larry Rosenstock, the CEO of High Tech High, San Diego promised to visit our school when it opens. Larry is the reason Andy and I started on this journey after our trip to his amazing school, and I was privileged to meet him at an educational conference this Tuesday.
During his keynote, Larry showed us some data about his students that was amazing. Over 85% of the children that go to his non-selective school have gone on to graduate from University, as opposed to this typical picture of the UK.
The support we have received from HTH and from Expedtionary Learning’s Ron Berger has been overwhelming and this gives us the confidence to know that our school will be a brilliant success.
We look forward to Larry visiting when our school is open.
Who is Ron Berger?
Ron is a teacher and carpenter who lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. His role as teacher at Shutesbury Elementary school allowed him to develop a pedagogy that is now being used in over 160 schools through his current work as Chief Program Officer of Expeditionary Learning.
His book, An Ethic of Excellence has inspired many practitioners to take a values driven pedagogy and deliver this practically through Expeditionary Learning Core Practices.
He is widely recognised as one of the best educators in the world.
Examples of his work can be seen below:
and here is a link to a recent article written by Ron.
About Martin
Martin is Head of Music and Create at Cramlington Learning Village in Northumberland
You can view Martin’s blog “Teaching and Learning Music” here
Follow Martin on twitter @saidthemac
Martin and Darren Mead have a wonderful project blog for their Call of the Wild Project
About Darren
Darren is Advanced Skills Science Teacher at Cramlington Learning Village in Northumberland.
You can read Darrens blog here
Follow Darren on twitter @dkmead
Darren and Martin Said have a wonderful project blog for their Call of the Wild Project
About Tait
Tait Coles is Vice Principal for Learning and Innovation at Dixons City Academy, Bradford.  He is excited about SOLO Taxonomy, Project Based Learning (PBL), leadership and pedagogy and developing independent and resilient learners. Tait is extremely interested in using “New Technologies” to engage and enthuse students. He is passionate about learning……it’s all about the learning.
You can view Tait’s blog here
Follow Tait on Twitter @totallywired77
Jeff Robin
Jeff teaches art at High Tech High, San Diego. He’s ace!
He’s done a load of animated videos explaining what PBL is and what it ISN’T…
…and he has a history of his projects which shows you the great things students do in his class
He also has a blog that he updates irregularly in his own inimitable style
Alec Patton
Alec teaches 11th grade humanities at High Tech High North County, and put together the excellent, Work that Matters, a teacher’s guide to project based learning.
Blog –Â http://alecpatton.weebly.com/about-me.html
Twitter – @AlecPatton
Work that Matters
Written by Alec Patton and published by the Innovation Unit, this is a brilliant teacher’s guide to Project Based Learning and how to do it well.
Here’s a link to the PDF incase it disappears from the innovation unit website
An Ethic of Excellence
Ron Berger’s book, An Ethic of Excellence is for me, the most important book on education I’ve ever read. It won’t take you long to read and it will probably change your life, or at least your teaching practice!
