May 23, 2020 2 Lessons from Virtual Learning: How to Improve Assessment I’m not very proud of what I’m going to write, since I can’t believe it took me so long to [...]
April 16, 2020 18 Virtual Learning – Students Tell Us What Works Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we made the move all of our classes online in mid-March — and we’ve [...]
April 7, 2020 0 How Administrators Can Go “Gradeless” and Assess Teachers Through Feedback I’m a big believer in modeling what we want to see teachers do in their classroom. For instance, we [...]
February 15, 2020 9 How to Set Up Inquiry-Based Professional Development for Teachers This year, at TCFL, the professional development (PD) themes we set for the school year were [...]
January 25, 2020 0 Differentiated Grammar Lessons I have a confession to make: I’m a language arts teacher who has always dreaded teaching grammar. Part [...]
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, [...]
January 12, 2020 0 Differentiation in Math Class I walk into Ailyn’s math class, where I find a hum of activity. On one side, I see three students [...]
December 7, 2019 6 Three Reasons We Should Still Teach Creative Writing in Secondary In language arts classes, as our students move into upper secondary school, teachers tend to move away from [...]
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 15, 2019 2 A Post for New Empty-Nesters Since we first opened The Community for Learning, I’ve seen students in 12 graduating classes fly off [...]