Articles by Carla

April 14, 2024 1

I love the fact that when teachers experiment with new strategies, they’ll naturally want to build on [...]

January 29, 2024 1

I’m teaching an 11th grade writing class and my students are finishing up a unit on memoirs. I’m [...]

August 9, 2023 0

At The Community for Learning (TCFL) we use a gradeless approach to assessment in elementary. Instead of [...]

March 21, 2023 0

Student-led discussions such as socratic seminars, TQE’s or fishbowl discussions, help students take [...]

March 10, 2023 0

At TCFL, the 27th of February Independence day celebration is an amazing schoolwide project-based learning [...]

March 6, 2023 0

During the 2021-2022 school year we created a student-led think tank to reimagine school. This group [...]

January 8, 2023 0

Last year at The Community for Learning, we asked a group of students to lead a think tank, tasked with [...]

December 4, 2022 0

In his tongue in cheek article How to Create Non-Readers, Alfie Kohn lists all the things teachers tend to do [...]

Translation: We decided to create a movement Pia, our 7th grade Spanish Language Arts and Dominican History [...]

August 16, 2022 0

Our 1st grade teacher, Maria (Mari) Isabelle Morillo, is completely dedicated to her students and runs an [...]

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