April 14, 2024 0 Fostering Student Autonomy Through Free Choice Writing I love the fact that when teachers experiment with new strategies, they’ll naturally want to build on [...]
January 29, 2024 1 Using Conferences to Improve Students’ Self-Assessment Skills I’m teaching an 11th grade writing class and my students are finishing up a unit on memoirs. I’m [...]
August 9, 2023 0 A Case Study: Empowering Students Through a Gradeless Approach. At The Community for Learning (TCFL) we use a gradeless approach to assessment in elementary. Instead of [...]
March 21, 2023 0 From Superficial to Substantial: Teaching Students to Ask Deeper Questions Student-led discussions such as socratic seminars, TQE’s or fishbowl discussions, help students take [...]
March 10, 2023 0 Cross-Curricular Collaboration: Unlocking Creativity At TCFL, the 27th of February Independence day celebration is an amazing schoolwide project-based learning [...]
March 6, 2023 0 Empowering Student Voice with Passion Pursuit During the 2021-2022 school year we created a student-led think tank to reimagine school. This group [...]
January 8, 2023 0 Transforming School with Student Input Last year at The Community for Learning, we asked a group of students to lead a think tank, tasked with [...]
December 4, 2022 0 How to Hook High School Readers Through the Study of Author’s Craft In his tongue in cheek article How to Create Non-Readers, Alfie Kohn lists all the things teachers tend to do [...]
September 25, 2022 0 Relevance in Project-Based Learning – Connecting History to Real World Issues Translation: We decided to create a movement Pia, our 7th grade Spanish Language Arts and Dominican History [...]
August 16, 2022 0 Honing Collaboration Skills Through Project-Based Learning Our 1st grade teacher, Maria (Mari) Isabelle Morillo, is completely dedicated to her students and runs an [...]