Image from TEDxAmericasFinestCity Recently Danielle Rich , our ES principal, shared with me a video about High Tech High (HTH) and its CEO Larry Rosenstock . HTH and Larry Rosenstock has created a network of charter schools that uses its four designing principles (personalization, adult world connection, and common intellectual mission, teacher as designer) to create learning environments that are radically different than traditional ones. This led me to create a YouTube playlist of videos of Larry Rosenstock interviews . Here are some of the things I learned from him: "Most Memorable Learning Experience" exercise where teachers share two learning experiences that they felt were memorable; common answers (project, community, fear of failure, recognition of success, mentorship, public display of work) Project Phases: observation, reflection, documentation, presentation STEAM instead of STEM because art and design are central to all as...