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This blog post, based on the 2016 Kappan<\/em> article \u201cGetting Better Together,\u201d written by Kristen MacConnell and Stacey Caillier, describes what teachers learned when they worked intentionally to bring students into the change process using empathy interviews and other methods. Their work is an example of seeing a problem from the perspective of those closest to it, a core concept of improvement science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clear, Measurable Goals and Empathy Help Scale Improvement Science at High Tech High<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 8, 2016 | By Kathryn Baron<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High Tech High, a charter management organization in Southern California with thirteen K-12 schools and its own graduate school of education, has been on an improvement journey to increase the number of students of color who go directly to 4-year colleges. It all began in 2014, when the director of one of their high schools, High Tech High North County (HTHNC), decided to apply to college himself and realized how challenging it was. Within two years, by focusing on\u2026. Read the full blog post <\/em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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This blog post, based on the 2016 Kappan article \u201cGetting Better Together,\u201d written by Kristen MacConnell and Stacey Caillier, describes what teachers … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"inline_featured_image":false,"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"client_controls":[],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvement-science-collection"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nClear, Measurable Goals and Empathy Help Scale Improvement Science at High Tech High - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/clear-measurable-goals-and-empathy-help-scale-improvement-science-at-high-tech-high\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clear, Measurable Goals and Empathy Help Scale Improvement Science at High Tech High - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This blog post, based on the 2016 Kappan article \u201cGetting Better Together,\u201d written by Kristen MacConnell and Stacey Caillier, describes what teachers ... 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