Articles by Carla

May 26, 2020 1

Graphic adapted from: rule-the-school.com At TCFL, we teach certain self-advocacy skills to our students. [...]

May 23, 2020 2

I’m not very proud of what I’m going to write, since I can’t believe it took me so long to learn [...]

April 16, 2020 18

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we made the move all of our classes online in mid-March — and we’ve [...]

April 7, 2020 0

I’m a big believer in modeling what we want to see teachers do in their classroom. For instance, we can’t [...]

February 15, 2020 7

This year, at TCFL, the professional development (PD) themes we set for the school year were “engagement” [...]

January 25, 2020 0

I have a confession to make: I’m a language arts teacher who has always dreaded teaching grammar. Part of [...]

January 18, 2020 4

Brainstorming the BreakOut project Our 10th grade Dominican history teachers, Lorena and Maguie, [...]

January 12, 2020 0

I walk into Ailyn’s math class, where I find a hum of activity. On one side, I see three students standing [...]

December 7, 2019 6

In language arts classes, as our students move into upper secondary school, teachers tend to move away from [...]

October 8, 2019 2

Technology! We have such a love/hate relationship with it. And at TCFL, this tension was especially [...]

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