Let’s talk all things SET High! Dr. Neil McCurdy and Nicky Geis (Ms. G to her students!) chat about what’s going on at our small public high school in this podcast. Together they share what makes SET so SET and how high school can be better than you ever imagined.
This podcast series focuses on 9th – 12th grade, navigating SET’s halls and academic life during this transformative educational and experiential time. They might even get around to figuring out what they want to do when they grow up.
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A Principal (Neil McCurdy) and Assistant Principal (Nicky Geis) of a high school (SET High) talk about raising teenagers.
On the drive back from Disney Land to pick up SET's 3rd California Distinguished School award (back to back to back!), Nicky interviews Neil to learn about his life story.
When we first started talking about AI at SET High, a small, public tuition-free charter high school in San Diego, the conversation sounded a lot like it did everywhere else: Is this cheating? Should we block it? What do we do? We decided pretty quickly that...
Sure, we know SET High, a tuition-free 9th-12th grade high school in San Diego, is next level in education and support. But teachers that read your mind? Actually, given it’s English teacher Ava Lennon, maybe we wouldn’t be surprised. And now that we know she...
High school is supposed to prepare you for what comes next. But what does that really mean? For Molly McGinnis, now studying Communications at California State University San Marcos, the answer has little to do with test scores and everything to do with how she grew...
Not everyone loves Math right away. But with the right teacher, it clicks. Ms. Alyssa Ryan at SET High, a tuition-free 9th-12th grade high school in San Diego, is exactly that kind of teacher. She's also the kind of person who once snuck out of...