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 [...]
April 24, 2021 4 The Pandemic Was NOT a “Lost Year” in Education Everywhere I look, I see people writing or talking about the “lost year” in education. I [...]
October 28, 2020 2 COVID-19 is Not the Problem: Creating a Student Led Movement for Change Up until last March, the world was full of problems for us to tackle — from plastic pollution and [...]
August 22, 2020 0 Virtual Professional Development Using the Jigsaw Technique Every year we kick off our two weeks of planning and professional development with a workshop to review our [...]
May 26, 2020 3 Lessons from Virtual Learning: Teaching Self-Advocacy Graphic adapted from: rule-the-school.com At TCFL, we teach certain self-advocacy skills to our students. [...]
January 18, 2020 4 How to Integrate Art and History into a Student-Led BreakOut Project Brainstorming the BreakOut project Our 10th grade Dominican history teachers, Lorena and Maguie, [...]
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 [...]
September 7, 2019 0 Improving Meetings with Dare to Lead by Brené Brown When I first heard of Brené Brown’s latest book, Dare to Lead, it called to me. The moment I saw [...]
May 12, 2019 4 5 Things Our Student-Led Environmental Conference Taught Us About Education Last week, our secondary students and teachers took a break from classes to take part in L.E.A.F. (Local [...]
April 15, 2019 2 How to Create a Buzz in the Classroom A few weeks ago, I sat in on a language arts team meeting led by our language arts coach, Omaura. Since her [...]