S1E11 - Project Essentials: in XONR8, 11th graders are helping the California Innocence Project to free wrongfully-convicted prisoners

Episode Notes To see if there's an organization like the California Innocence Project near you, visit www.innocencenetwork.org Table of Contents 1:29 What the California Innocence Project does, and how XONR8 helps them 2:17 XONR8: the project in a nutshell 3:31 XONR8: Origins (how Mackenzie came up with the idea for it) 5:15 How XONR8 starts: deciphering autopsy reports 6:17 Gavin & Sofia on figuring out the autopsy reports 7:48 Step 2: the whole class looks at a case file together 8:23 Step 3: the students get assigned a real case file 9:38 How Mackenzie makes groups and decides how to assign cases 10:40 Gavin and Sofia on how it felt to get their case files 12:04 Structures for project-management within groups 12:58 Sofia and Gavin on how well their groups worked together 14:09 The low point of the project for Sofia and Gavin 15:43 The verdict that Gavin's group reached 16:07 The verdict that Sofia's group reached 16:54 Preparing to present to the Innocence Project lawyers 17:27 Giving the presentations 19:26 High Tech High students are better prepared and better presenters than the law students 20:13 Differentiating for kids who struggle with reading 20:59 The other part of the project: Reading "Just Mercy" by Brian Stevenson