Articles by Carla

April 15, 2019 2

A few weeks ago, I sat in on a language arts team meeting led by our language arts coach, Omaura. Since her [...]

April 6, 2019 2

One of the best parts of my job as a high school director is watching how one small change leads to another [...]

March 30, 2019 0

For the past two years, we’ve celebrated Global School Play Day in our elementary school. But this year, [...]

January 26, 2019 6

Over the years, as my job has become more complex, my memory has — distressingly — become weaker. [...]

January 19, 2019 0

Creating a visual helps me stay focused on my goal. For three years now, rather than come up with a handful [...]

January 12, 2019 0

Several years ago my son introduced me to what I consider a life-changing book: Crucial Conversations by [...]

December 28, 2018 3

Back when my co-founders and I first started The Community for Learning, we had already worked as teachers [...]

November 21, 2018 1

It’s been about three years now since our school switched from a whole group to an individualized model of [...]

October 24, 2018 0

Teacher/student SWYCAD conference. Last year, two of our math teachers began experimenting student [...]

Recently on a Twitter chat, some teachers raised the question of reading aloud to students, mentioning that [...]

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