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Causes: Education, Graduate & Professional Schools
Mission: The mission of the high tech high graduate school of education is to prepare reflective practitioner leaders to work with colleagues and communities to develop innovative, authentic, and rigorous learning environments.
Programs: Professional development: high tech high graduate school of education offers a broad range of activities focused upon k-12 educators that have the purpose of disseminating high tech high's best practices. These activities include semi-annual institutes where educators from across the country and around the globe convene in san diego to learn about high tech high's acclaimed project-based learning model, how high tech high schools are organized and managed, and how they can take these best practices back to their communities to start new schools or reform existing campuses. Collegial coaching, the leading schools certificate program that is modeled after the m. Ed. Program, customized residency programs, and a reknowned speaker series offering the voices of the nation's reform leaders are among the activities undertaken by high tech high graduate school of education to support america's k-12 educators.
master's of education degree (m. Ed. ) programs: through the high tech high graduate school of education, k-12 educators are provided an effective avenue to reflect upon their practice and acquire skills to perform as reform-minded leaders in their future assignments. High tech high graduate school of education provides two m. Ed. Options - school leadership for those aspiring to manage their own k-12 school and teacher leadership for those educators who plan to stay in the classroom but aspire to lead other teachers in improving their skills as educators of young people.
center for research on equity and innovation: the center engages practitioners, scholars and youth in critical dialogue and networked improvement efforts addressing complex problems of practice in k-12 education. Grounded in participatory research, the center merges professional practice and scholarship to actively improve teaching, learning, and leadership in schools. The work is guided by the following principles:excavate: we critically examine our own beliefs, practices and the systems in which our students live and work. Disrupt: we use disciplined inquiry to disrupt predictable patterns of success and failure, and the inequitable practices that perpetuate them. Design: we design practices and transform systems to create more equitable, engaging learning environments for young people and adults.