Napa New Technology High School
(NTHS) * 
NTHS
Learning System, Key Links, Articles,
Replication
Napa New Technology
High School (NTHS) opened in 1996 serving students in Grades 11-12
from two feeder high schools. 200 students attend the school for
1/2 a day, but most hang around after school. Napa New Tech may
be a remodeled elementary school facility, but it looks like a workplace,
not a school. NTHS Director and Principal Mark Morrison calls it
" a high-tech, high-touch learning environment."
Technology is
integrated into every class, courses are interdisciplinary and project
based, and each student graduates with a Digital Portfolio. Students
take a course in New Media, which gives them the skills to use powerful
authoring and presentation technologies in all their work. In the
senior year, each student does a year-long internship in a local
business, many of them technology or related companies, and also
completes an on-line Internship Project "Work Summary"
about their experience that will become part of their professional
digital portfolio.
Napa
New Technology High School* is the best example of a Target
Tech 4 -- Replication and Dissemination school site, with its
Learning System that supports 21st Century knowledge and skills.
NTHS
Learning System
The NTHS Learning System comprises the school's curriculum, standards,
assessment tools, and reporting tools, all online on a common technology
platform. To see a Virtual Tour of the NTHS Learning System, go
to http://www.newtechfoundation.org/nthlearning.html.
You will need a broadband connection to download it, which will
take 2-3 minutes. If you use Internet Explorer, it will download
and play in your browser. If you use Navigator, save it to your
hard drive and play using PowerPoint.
Key
Links
Napa
New Tech High Web Site
New
Technology Foundation (NTF) Web Site
The
New Tech High School Model -- PowerPoint Presentation ( ,
4 MB)
NTHS
Student Digital Portfolio page (Present) and Digital
Portfolios (Past)
Articles
[Also see articles
on the NTF web site.]
New
Technology High Schools, USA
UK Knowledge Share on "New Technology High Schools, USA",
by Michael Buchanan, Place Group
Napa
Valley's Newest Export
Project-based instruction and an open school culture have made New
Technology High School a celebrated model for replication. Scholastic
Administrator, November-December, 2003.
Project-Based
Learning: A Primer
When students are challenged to get to work solving real-life problems,
the whole world becomes a classroom. by Gwen Solomon, Technology
& Learning, January 2003
High
Tech Haven
New Technology High School in California's Napa Valley provides
at least one computer for every student. But that's not the only
reason teenagers choose to attend this school. Education Week, May
29-June 5.
New
‘high-tech’ high schools aim to transform learning
By Cara Branigan, Assistant Editor, eSchool News, December 18, 2000
If
We Can Do It, Anyone Can!, Converge Magazine, October 1998
Side-By-Side,
Converge Magazine, April 2000
Education
is the focus at high-tech high, CNN Interactive, January 20,
1997
Desktop
PCs bring fast times to New Tech High, Government Computer News,
May 2000
Technology
Works! Technology Success Stories: Napa New Technology High School,
The Software and Information Industry Association, 2000
From
High Tech High School to Hot Jobs, techtv, April 7, 1999
Information
about NTHS for the Committee, Congressional Hearing, The Committee
on Education and the Workforce, at New Technology High School, January
29, 1997
New
American High School recognition, U.S. Department of Education
Replication
Napa New Technology High School is one of three new small high schools
that have been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to
support their replication in ten sites each across the United States.
If your school, district, or community is interested in replicating
this model, contact:
Susan Schilling
Director of Replication
707-253-4287
SSchilling@newtechhigh.org
*
Full Disclosure: Bob Pearlman is the Director of Strategic Planning
for the New Technology Foundation(NTF). Under a grant from the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, NTF helps new schools replicate
the New Technology High School Model.
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