January 8, 2023 0 Transforming School with Student Input Last year at The Community for Learning, we asked a group of students to lead a think tank, tasked with [...]
December 4, 2022 0 How to Hook High School Readers Through the Study of Author’s Craft In his tongue in cheek article How to Create Non-Readers, Alfie Kohn lists all the things teachers tend to do [...]
September 25, 2022 0 Relevance in Project-Based Learning – Connecting History to Real World Issues Translation: We decided to create a movement Pia, our 7th grade Spanish Language Arts and Dominican History [...]
August 16, 2022 0 Honing Collaboration Skills Through Project-Based Learning Our 1st grade teacher, Maria (Mari) Isabelle Morillo, is completely dedicated to her students and runs an [...]
August 9, 2022 0 Project-Based Learning: Giving Choice Within Curricular Boundaries Maguie Alexander, a secondary school Dominican history teacher, is passionate about the subject she teaches, [...]
July 30, 2022 0 Teaching Independence With Project-Based Learning Our 6th grade Language Arts (LA) teacher, Christina Perez, had always known that moving to 7th grade — [...]
July 15, 2022 0 How to Give up Control and Do Project Based Learning With the Primary Grades. When deciding to try Project Based Learning, 1st grade Spanish teacher, Racel, felt "pretty nervous." After all, how much would six- and seven-year-olds be able to do on their own? [...]
June 7, 2022 4 Reimagining School: A Student-Led Think Tank One of the strengths of the pandemic has been its ability to put a spotlight on everything that is wrong with [...]
April 22, 2022 2 How to Use Learning Journeys to Facilitate Student-Led Learning After spending a year and a half in remote learning, many of our students were having difficulty returning to [...]
February 25, 2022 2 Reigniting the Reading Flame After a year and a half of remote learning, we’re finally back in the classroom and we can’t wait [...]