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 [...]
March 30, 2019 0 Why Celebrate Global School Play Day? For the past two years, we’ve celebrated Global School Play Day in our elementary school. But this [...]
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 [...]
August 28, 2018 1 Creating Community from Day One Creating a strong sense of community is essential in education. It’s clear that students who feel safe [...]
July 16, 2018 6 All of Them Are “Our Children” Photo by Zahid Hasan Joy on Unsplash A couple of weeks ago, a friend posted a picture of a family sleeping on [...]
June 3, 2018 2 The Outdoors Club: A Student Leadership Initiative When we say we want our students to become “lifelong learners,” we’re not simply talking [...]
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 [...]
January 27, 2018 6 Homework in High School: Should We Assign It? Lately, the question of homework has been coming up in all kinds of educational discussions — on [...]
January 13, 2018 2 Parenting in the Age of Smartphones At the beach the other day, I ended up in a conversation with a tourist — let’s call him Andrew [...]
January 2, 2018 9 #OneWord2018 I love the passage from one year to another — it’s a time to reflect on the past year, learn from [...]