Space Camp, Rock Climbing, and Rethinking High School with Scott Holcomb - TEC86
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Dan Thomas interviews Scott Holcomb about the innovative approach to education at Crosstown High and the impact of technology and student feedback on learning.
What if the best school you've never heard of is sitting inside a former Sears building in Memphis? In this episode of The TechEd Clubhouse, I talk with Scott Holcomb — Ed Tech Imagineer at Crosstown High, Space Camp Hall of Famer, and yes, an actual character in the 1985 Space Camp movie — about what happens when a group of teachers finally get to build the school they always wanted. Crosstown High isn't a school that adopted a new program. It's a school that started from scratch — no bells, no traditional silos, no "we've always done it this way." Built inside a 1.5 million square foot vertical village alongside a YMCA, a hospital, restaurants, and a grocery store, it was designed around one question: what if we actually listened to students and teachers? Scott's journey to get there — from school counselor to instructional technologist covering an entire Memphis school district to Space Camp Hall of Famer — is as unconventional as the school itself. IN THIS EPISODE Why the same trick that got a resistant teacher interested in technology in 1998 still works with AI today What Crosstown High actually looks like day to day — and what makes it different beneath the…
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