January 14, 2016 2 5 Habits for Excellence in Teaching Normally, I spend most of my time observing secondary-level Language Arts teachers, and each teacher is [...]
December 14, 2015 1 Creating Community to Minimize Bullying In a school, when we make the commitment to minimize bullying, we have to take a number of steps [...]
November 29, 2015 0 Using LiveBinders to Organize Your Teaching When I first started teaching (around 27 years ago), there was no internet – and in the Dominican [...]
November 26, 2015 1 Sharing Our Failures in the Classroom The other day, I watched a TED talk by David Damburger called “Learning from Failure.” [...]
November 22, 2015 3 The Learning Target Experiment Part 2 During the 2014-15 school year, we discovered the book Leaders of Their Own Learning by Ron Berger, Leah [...]
October 26, 2015 4 The Learning Target Experiment Part I At The Community for Learning (TCFL), we’re constantly working to engage our students in class, to [...]
October 19, 2015 0 Trust and the “Test of Time” All my life I’ve trusted people easily. I may not trust every news article I read, but I do have faith [...]
October 15, 2015 0 Exercise and Education A few years back, I read Brain Rules by John Medina and was struck by just how linked exercise and cognition [...]
October 12, 2015 0 Practicing Mindfulness in the Classroom As teachers, the work load is never-ending, and you give so much of yourself in the classroom that it’s [...]
October 8, 2015 4 Teaching Vocabulary: Word of the Day Many of us were taught vocabulary by writing down a list of words and looking up their definitions in the [...]