Edison "Preview" v1

El Puente "Preview" v1

Health Opps "Preview" v2

I totally agree about giving too much away. I kept the basic structure but lopped off 30 seconds of details.

Health Opps "Preview" v1

Environment "Preview" v1

Env "Using Resources to Support Professional Development" v3

This is the old "Using Resources to Strengthen Teaching and Learning" clip. I made changes and shortened by about a minute. 

ALSO

I've not posted another version of "Teaching Environmental Science" because I couldn't find a better student quote than the current one that ends the clip. Sorry, none of them stood out! 

Health "Designing Programs" v2

This is the new version of the old "Personalizing Instruction." Notes are great and this one is trim and has much better pacing, I think.

Health "Supporting Intellectual Inquiry" v2

Great notes on this one. The one thing we don't have is the book sharer participating in class. You're right that she did talk, but her voice is so quiet and gravely that you can't hear what she's saying.

Health "Focusing Leadership and Resources" v2

Health "Personalizing Intervention" v2

I think that these notes were really good and this is a much stronger clip. It's pretty different, but I think it's better for it.

Health "Transitioning to College" v2

Much tighter! I think this one is looking good. More voices as well.

Edison "Providing Real-World Experiences 2" v3

This is the second split of the long "Providing Real-World Experiences clip.

Edison "Providing Real-World Experiences I" v3

This is the first split of the long "Providing Real-World Experiences clip.

“Assessing Student Learning” v2

Agree with Marla that this could use some serious tightening. I trimmed out around 1:30.

El Puente "“Nurturing Connections”

As always, I’ll do what you like, but I think that this clip is really strong as is. The way I structured it is to have it flow from leadership, to establishing human relationships, to the community garden, then closing with one of Carlos’ profundities. If we took one of the leadership lines out and moved it to the end, it’s going to sound repetitive. Plus the way the leadership section cuts together is really tight and complimentary. I mean, how often do you get kids who can discuss ideas so intelligently as these do about leadership?

The reason I might sound a wee bit defensive is that I feel like all of these cases have sometimes had too few voices and here we’ve got NINE people in a video that flows nicely from teacher to administrator to student and really nails, in my humble opinion, what’s going on at this wonderful school. I’d keep it as it is.

But will do whatever you like, I’ll just need some more specific thoughts.

El Puente "Building on History and Human Resources" v2

This is the old MAXIMISING HUMAN RESOURCES. Marla’s restructuring worked great, except for the placement of Hector’s bit about his school growing up. Also, I looked back at the initial interview and I just think it’s really awkward using that little clip of him at a desk when the rest of the engaging “conversation” between him, Joe and Francis, he’s in the garden. It just doesn’t gel. Nor does him talking about his bad school between all the great programs Joe is talking about. We KNOW that they’ve created something great and different and better than the bad schools in NY. Unless this is placed earlier, it drags down the clip. And I can’t figure out where it wants to live earlier in the clip. Maybe when hector is talking about the audacity of starting the school, but again, when it’s there, I feel like were taking out of this nice narrative. If it’s important, I’ll throw it in.

Other than this, I think this one is really strong.

El Puente "Deepening Self Awareness" v2

I agree about the confusion on this one. We got to class a second late and missed the teacher intro. I also looked through each of the student interviews and none of them really nailed what exactly they were working on. Not a problem, because we were focusing in on the quarterly assessments, so the “awareness” material had to emerge from their specifics about the books they were reading.

I did put Nyasia's reading at the head of the clip and then went into the teacher at the board and I think that this actually works really nicely. Thoughts?