Leading School Program
The HTH GSE Leading Schools Program (LSP) emerged out of a desire to serve as a "change incubator" by working closely with teams of educators—around the country and the world—to transform schools. This one-year hybrid program blends residencies at High Tech High in San Diego, partnerships with HTH critical friends, and on-line participation in discussion forums and Seminar Groups. Participants design and execute a leadership project that addresses an authentic need or issue at their home schools, and present this work to colleagues and a broader audience at the High Tech High. Ultimately, participants emerge from the program equipped to take the lead in creating innovative, engaging learning environments for young people and adults.
The goals of the Leading Schools Program are to:
- Explore and share collaborative, student-centered, project-based pedagogies
- Build strong collegial cultures through coaching and the use of protocols to engage in authentic, purposeful conversations about student work, curricula design, and shared purposes.
- Establish a “community of practice”—a critical mass of educators around the country and the world working toward common goals, deepening their practice, and learning strategies for sharing their work with colleagues within and beyond their own schools