HIGHLAND TECH HIGH
CHARTER SCHOOL
Another way to educate
By the model from
RE-INVENTING-SCHOOL-COALITION
Developed by among other Richard DeLorenzo
Some facts…
Is a public owned «alternative
school»
 Students groups in accordance to 612 grade, similar to our 7-13 grades.
 Curriculum as the American«high
school» parallell to our preuniversity studies
 Students age vary from12-13 to 2021 years.
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HTH - Charter school
Probably tells everything….
The aims of the school:
 Educating for life – educating for
leadership
 CORE – Culture of respect for everybody
 Standardbased education – depending
on skills and proficiency – independent
of age
 Available for all students – inkluding
disabled and weak performing students
 Relations is a main theme
Basic values at HTH
Standards
The idea and practise of the school
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Every student can reach
proficiency.(80% «score»)= proficient.
Students skills must be proved in several
ways to be accepted as proficient.
All standards are built together in a logic
order
No student starts working on a «new
standard» before they are proficient in
what they are working on…
An accepted standard is accepted
«forever».
Individual coaching
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Standardbased education giving overwiew
to both student and teacher.
A big number of tasks with a wide variety
can be given to the individual student
according to what they are working with.
All ICT-based – no traditional books.
Coaching of each student on what needs to
be done to reach proficiency.
The long road of small steps – one at a time.
Use of «educate» – to keep overwiew and
personalize coaching
The teacher as coach
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No ordinary text books
Using Internet actively
Use of «rosetta stone» as a programme
for learning foreign languages, and
khanacademy.org in maths and science.
Uses digital tests kombined with other
asessments and evaluation methods.
Depending on «educate» - for the
ovwewiew
ICT and TECH
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Mixed age and level-groups.
Individual and collaborative learning
activities are focused.
Minimum of traditional teacher
teaching lessons..
Short periods with the same
timetable – focused subjects.
Time available to catch up with
lacking proficiency
Organization
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Students always have a good platform to
build new learning on…
Students responsibility
Students believe in own abilities and
experiences growing skills.
Students accept to use the time
neccesary to really learn.
Time spent becomes a motivation for
increased efforts as skills increase.
Some call it win-win.
Obvious advantages
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Rather would do something else
Doesn`t do what is reqired?
Doesn`t behave according to school
rules?
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Answer; They have to face
conseqenses according to «CORE –
Culture of respect for everyone..»
and «Educating for life – educating
for leadership.»
What about those who..
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Allows all kinds of students
Must prove to be able to start at 6`th
level at least
Testing to find the correct curriculim
level for each student
It all depends on skills –not of age or
previous schooling.
Gives students a new chance- continous
intake of new students (mainly August
though)
School start all year
I do not want to og back to a traditional
school
 I like it here because I am not bored.
 I have a good relation to my teachers.
 I feel that the scool takes me serious.
 I know that I have been lazy but now I have
decided to finish. I know I can make it..
 I am really a 9`th grader – in maths I am in
12 grade. I like that with this scool.
 My best friends are one and two years
younger than me.
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What do students say?
I accept the punishment I was given
by the «CORE»
 I know that I must have good marks
to continue doing what I really want
to – playing ice-hockey. This school
helps meg get there.
 I would rather play basketball but I
know I need education
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Other statements…
Morning meeting with all students
every morning
 Huge students activities connected to
elections and common programmes.
 TECH-image connected to a few
projects/assignments
 Students as responsible for ICTequipment at school.
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Other special items..
Systematic planning and follow up.
 Forms for planning, coaching,
distribution of tasks and distribution
of tasks.
 Coaching time for each projectgroup
 Its more or less all about
Collaborative learning…
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Project work - collaboration
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Young…(not neccesary)
Chosen by criterias for knowledge,
willingness to follow this model, ability
to build relationgs and belief in each
students capability.
All I spoke to wished to be teachers at
just this school – it represented an
added value.
«I want to be a teacher that makes a
difference»
Encouraged to try and fail and learn.
The teachers
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Are represented as selectable
subjects in the High-school system
Only one school - 1 - in all Anchorage
King Career center
2 lessons pr dag every day for 18
weeks
Only students that are ajour with
their ordinary high school subjects..
KCC gives this offer to 500-500-300
every day.
Where did the practical education
go?
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Laura Hilger,
assisting principal
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Dr Ginger Blackmon
Principal – giving a
seminar for BFK
next week.
Management at HTH
http://www.highlandtech.org/
 http://www.reinventingschools.org/
 http://www.reinventingschools.org/resour
ces/delivering-on-the-promise/
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Alaska-thank you ever so much.