Guided Response:  Review at least two other classmates’ initial posts. Compare the examples they used from the High Tech High presentation with your own. Did they align with the same characteristics of culturally relevant instruction or creativity as yours? Ask questions if the relationship they suggest is not clear to you. As with previous discussions, though two replies is the basic expectation, for deeper engagement and learning, you are encouraged to provide responses to any comments or questions others have given to you. This will further the conversation and provide you with opportunities to clarify your own understanding of the material analyzed.  Megan Martin Triangle of Support           After viewing the video, I believe that it shows that the schools reinforce the students’ cultural competence through letting them show their culture in the school. They have programs at the schools that support the students and their cultural backgrounds. Children seem to learn better when they are physically involved in the activity. I never heard of the Blue Man Group until this discussion. The students were able to get a little bit of freedom to learn what interested them. Parents can help the students from home by helping them study, take them to the library, and use the community for resources. Jaclyn Greene    It’s often-said peer learning is the best learning. This school has captured that concept and run with it. They allow the children the freedom to express their cultural competence and the ability to do so with others all while learning. With a wide variety of programs, the children get to engage in a host of projects and class assignments where they get to pair off in groups and work together independently. Its my personal opinion that by doing this they build their confidence, self-wealth, awareness of their cultural competence as well as that of those around them and enhances their learning experience, as well as spark their creativity. Each major has its own advisory committee made up of students, parents, and other professionals, It also enhances their independence by allowing students to choose between a wide variety of vocational courses. To me this is great for if you choose it it’s because you’re interested in it. Which means you will probably stick with it and do well with it. I addition to all this wonderfulness they also keep their ears to the streets to assure they are keeping up with what students need to succeed in the modern world. THIS MY WORK Below SO  YOU CAN COMPARE (follow the guided) High Tech High Vocational and Academic Model The school offers a unique experience in addressing each learners’ cultural competence. This is achieved via the cleverly diversified which include performing arts and music. The opportunity for learners to participate in musical activities and other expressive arts enables them to demonstrate, develop and appreciate their cultural diversities. Students are actively ...

1. Guided Response:
Review at least two other classmates’ initial posts. Compare
the examples they used from the High Tech High presentation
with your own. Did they align with the same characteristics of
culturally relevant instruction or creativity as yours? Ask
questions if the relationship they suggest is not clear to you. As
with previous discussions, though two replies is the basic
expectation, for deeper engagement and learning, you are
encouraged to provide responses to any comments or questions
others have given to you. This will further the conversation and
provide you with opportunities to clarify your own
understanding of the material analyzed.
Megan Martin
Triangle of Support
After viewing the video, I believe that it shows that the
schools reinforce the students’ cultural competence through
letting them show their culture in the school. They have
programs at the schools that support the students and their
cultural backgrounds. Children seem to learn better when they
are physically involved in the activity. I never heard of the Blue
Man Group until this discussion. The students were able to get a
little bit of freedom to learn what interested them. Parents can
help the students from home by helping them study, take them
to the library, and use the community for resources.

2. Jaclyn Greene
It’s often-said peer learning is the best learning. This school
has captured that concept and run with it. They allow the
children the freedom to express their cultural competence and
the ability to do so with others all while learning. With a wide
variety of programs, the children get to engage in a host of
projects and class assignments where they get to pair off in
groups and work together independently. Its my personal
opinion that by doing this they build their confidence, self-
wealth, awareness of their cultural competence as well as that of
those around them and enhances their learning experience, as
well as spark their creativity. Each major has its own advisory
committee made up of students, parents, and other
professionals, It also enhances their independence by allowing
students to choose between a wide variety of vocational
courses. To me this is great for if you choose it it’s because
you’re interested in it. Which means you will probably stick
with it and do well with it. I addition to all this wonderfulness
they also keep their ears to the streets to assure they are keeping
up with what students need to succeed in the modern world.
THIS MY WORK Below SO YOU CAN COMPARE (follow the
guided)

3. High Tech High Vocational and Academic Model
The school offers a unique experience in addressing each
learners’ cultural competence. This is achieved via the cleverly
diversified which include performing arts and music. The
opportunity for learners to participate in musical activities and
other expressive arts enables them to demonstrate, develop and
appreciate their cultural diversities. Students are actively
involved in constructing knowledge by the virtue that they are
exposed to college like learning environments which gives them
a chance to carry out research and other laboratory tasks. The
diversification of the vocational programs enables students to
get involved with ‘majors’ that they truly have an interest in
instead of the common learning programs whereby learners are
forced to undertake various disciplines. The institution also gets
to understand the learner’s culture and associated knowledge
via the more expressive majors such as arts. The freedom of
choosing what to learn while being supported by the teachers
gives the learners a unique opportunity to make the learning
experience fun and enjoyable, which promotes critical
consciousness within the learner and promotes their social
norms.
The Blue School
The school is fundamentally built on the aspiration of
promoting creativity among learners. One of the most
interesting and characteristically effective methods of nurturing
creativity within the school is “promotion of experiment and
inquiry and the willingness to make mistakes.” This, as argued
by one of the founders, stems from the fact that different
children have varied ways of learning and yet they are subject
under the same teaching conditions. For instance, some children
learn best via kinetic means of absorbing knowledge hence the

4. need for them to keep moving around. This approach is highly
recommended in any new school since it will give the learners
and opportunity to explore their full potential.
There is need to create a stronger association between creativity
and culturally relevant instruction within the 21st-century
classrooms. This is due to the fact that more emphasis is being
put on the mastery of communication skills and useful diversity
in the job market. Therefore, it is only prudent to ditch the
assembly-line-like strategy in education which produces
extremely similar ‘copies’ of graduates with little to no room
for creativity.