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 [...]
January 26, 2019 6 How I Organize My Week: My Sticky Note Agenda System Over the years, as my job has become more complex, my memory has — distressingly — become [...]
January 19, 2019 0 #OneWord2019: Empower Creating a visual helps me stay focused on my goal. For three years now, rather than come up with a handful [...]
January 12, 2019 0 Teaching Students How to Communicate Effectively During Difficult Conversations Several years ago my son introduced me to what I consider a life-changing book: Crucial Conversations by [...]
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 [...]
November 21, 2018 1 The Challenges of Individualized Professional Development It’s been about three years now since our school switched from a whole group to an individualized model [...]
October 24, 2018 0 The Impact of Self-Assessment on Student Learning Teacher/student SWYCAD conference. Last year, two of our math teachers began experimenting student [...]
September 24, 2018 4 Reading Aloud in Secondary Recently on a Twitter chat, some teachers raised the question of reading aloud to students, mentioning that [...]
September 2, 2018 0 Using Student Work as Mentor Texts Every time we make a change in the classroom, there are unexpected repercussions. Some positive, some more [...]