Setting Description

​High Tech High History

 

A group of civic and industry leaders, as well as innovative educators, saw a need for more qualified individuals entering the high-tech workforce, thus founding High Tech High. In 2000, the first High Tech High school was opened in San Diego, CA with the goal of integrating technical and academic education in order to graduate thoughtful, engaged citizens, especially in the areas of math and engineering.

 

In 2011, High Tech High was ready to expand its educational successes and open its first ever Elementary school. The purpose of expanding K-5 was to continue creating schools where students would feel passionate about their learning, have voice and choice in how they learned, and would acquire both basic and personalized skill sets in academics and citizenship. These skills and learning philosophies would then better prepare students for success in the existing Middle and High schools. High Tech Elementary, Chula Vista (HTeCV), the first Elementary in the organization, resides in the Chula Vista “El Pueblo” village. This village also includes a High Tech Middle and High school. Since the origination of the first HTH school, a total of eleven additional elementary, middle, and high schools have opened.

HTeCV, similar to the other HTH schools, is founded in project-based learning that employs four design principles to guide the direction of school and classroom practice.; personalization, common intellectual mission, real world connections and teacher as designer.