Collaboration Generation: Special Report

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    • Two Teachers, Three Subjects, One Project
    • An Interview with Larry Rosenstock
    • A Day in the Life of a Teacher
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On June 27, 2009, High Tech High biotech teacher Jay Vavra and several of his students returned to Tanzania to hold a bushmeat-identification workshop to help local wildlife-protection officials fight poaching. For more information, go to the group's Web site, High Tech High African Bushmeat Expedition, and read the expedition journal. (Watch a trailer for Students of Consequence, the students' award-winning documentary about their 2008 expedition.)

View all our videos about High Tech High: Transformed by Technology: High Tech High Overview A network of K-12 public charter schools uses rigorous projects and portfolio assessments to revolutionize learning. The DNA of Learning: Teens Tackle Animal Poaching Through Genetics Eleventh-grade biotechnology students use DNA barcoding to help save endangered African wildlife. Team Teaching: Two Teachers, Three Subjects, One Project A pair of educators are sanguine about their art, biology, and multimedia program. Adult-World Connections: An Internship with Real Impact for Rescuers A high school intern improves emergency-helicopter communications for San Diego's police and fire departments. High Tech, Higher Learning: A School Grows Its Own Teachers This school has its own master's plan for developing the educators it needs. Taking the Lead: An Interview with Larry Rosenstock High Tech High's founding principal and CEO speaks about its innovative teaching and learning model.