Fostering Student Autonomy Through Free Choice Writing
I love the fact that when teachers experiment with new strategies, they’ll naturally want to build on [...]
Education
Using Conferences to Improve Students’ Self-Assessment Skills
I’m teaching an 11th grade writing class and my students are finishing up a unit on memoirs. I’m [...]
A Case Study: Empowering Students Through a Gradeless Approach.
At The Community for Learning (TCFL) we use a gradeless approach to assessment in elementary. Instead of [...]
From Superficial to Substantial: Teaching Students to Ask Deeper Questions
Student-led discussions such as socratic seminars, TQE’s or fishbowl discussions, help students take [...]
Cross-Curricular Collaboration: Unlocking Creativity
At TCFL, the 27th of February Independence day celebration is an amazing schoolwide project-based learning [...]
Empowering Student Voice with Passion Pursuit
During the 2021-2022 school year we created a student-led think tank to reimagine school. This group [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Honing Collaboration Skills Through Project-Based Learning
Our 1st grade teacher, Maria (Mari) Isabelle Morillo, is completely dedicated to her students and runs an [...]
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