On today’s podcast: education thought leader and former journalism teacher Esther Wojcicki.

Wojcicki taught a renowned journalism course at Palo Alto High School in California for 27 years and is a highly sought speaker on education reform. She is also the board chair of Creative Commons, a nonprofit focused on education and learning, and is a co-founder of the Journalistic Learning Initiative.

In this episode, we discuss her teaching career at Palo Alto and the power of project-based storytelling.

Topics

  • 03:36 Wojcicki’s Palo Alto program
  • 07:47 The TRICK method
  • 10:03 Publishing student work
  • 13:09 Taking the grandkids to Target
  • 17:48 Giving teachers more control in the classroom