March 4, 2014 9 Giving Up Grades – Part 2: An Example Last Monday, Ylonka – our 7th grade Spanish Language Arts (Lenguaje) teacher – came into my [...]
February 25, 2014 2 Giving Up Grades A few weeks ago in the secondary Language Arts department we were struggling with our students’ lack of [...]
February 19, 2014 0 Democratic Parenting After reading this blog post on the difference between authoritarian, democratic, and permissive parenting [...]
February 9, 2014 0 The Green Experiment Part 3: School and Community Garden This is the third installment by guest blogger Laura Tejeda, explaining how our school began its sustainable [...]
January 30, 2014 3 Bring Back the Belt? Someone posted the image above on their Facebook wall the other day, along with the statement “bring [...]
January 19, 2014 2 The Green Experiment, Part 2: Composting This is the second article in a series about sustainable environmental projects in schools, by guest blogger [...]
January 17, 2014 20 For the Love of Reading – Independent Reading This is the first in a series of workshops about teaching reading at the secondary level. In the infographic [...]
January 9, 2014 3 The Green Experiment, Part 1 This is the first in a series of guest posts written by Laura Tejeda, a former Community for Learning Science [...]
December 23, 2013 0 Our Daughters, Ourselves: working towards a healthier body image The other day I took a picture of a small group of 14-year-old girls. When I showed it to them, one of them [...]
December 16, 2013 3 Our Little Slice This is a guest post written by Valerie Martinez, one of the Community for Learning’s sixth grade [...]