October 8, 2019 2 Disconnect to Connect: How to Use Yondr Pouches for a School Smartphone Detox Technology! We have such a love/hate relationship with it. And at TCFL, this tension was especially [...]
April 6, 2019 2 Life Skill Comments: Student Written Progress Reports One of the best parts of my job as a high school director is watching how one small change leads to another [...]
January 12, 2019 0 Teaching Students How to Communicate Effectively During Difficult Conversations Several years ago my son introduced me to what I consider a life-changing book: Crucial Conversations by [...]
December 28, 2018 9 Restorative Discipline is Not a “Program,” It’s a Mindset Back when my co-founders and I first started The Community for Learning, we had already worked as teachers [...]
April 14, 2018 7 Empowering Students: Setting Life Skill Goals After introducing students to life skills (skills like critical thinking, communication, leadership, and time [...]
April 6, 2018 6 Embedding Life and Career Skills into Our Classes Last year at The Community for Learning, we realized that our increasing focus on life skills (skills like [...]
September 14, 2017 0 Teaching Life and Career Skills With Breakout Edu In a quickly frantically changing world, educators are all too aware that much of the content we teach [...]
April 23, 2017 11 Harnessing the Power of Words About a year ago, I was taking part in a Twitter chat in which teachers were talking about the [...]
October 12, 2015 0 Practicing Mindfulness in the Classroom As teachers, the work load is never-ending, and you give so much of yourself in the classroom that it’s [...]
September 30, 2015 1 Creating a Positive Learning Community In an ideal world, schools would be a place where students feel curious and engaged. They would be busy [...]