Teaching High School Students to Compare Visual and Textual Media
I remember sitting with a student who was staring at a painting of a turbulent sea and asking why the artist chose those specific jagged brushstrokes instead of just writing out a description of the storm. It is a common moment in high school English 9 classes. We... read moreTeaching High School Students to Calculate Conditional Probability
Helping students move beyond general probability requires a shift in how they view the total sample space. When they begin to treat a condition as a new universe, they can more easily calculate the probability of event A given event B. This approach changes the way... read more
Teaching High School Students How Abstraction Powers Computing Systems
I remember watching a student stare at his screen, clicking an icon repeatedly while asking why the computer wasn’t responding instantly. We talk about hardware and software constantly in high school computer science, but we often forget to address the invisible... read more
High School US History Lessons on Post-War Economic Shifts
By the time late spring rolls around in California, the eleventh-grade history calendar is often under intense pressure. Teachers in Sacramento City Unified, Merced Union High School District, Ojai Unified, and Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified are usually trying to balance... read more