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 7, 2019 0 Improving Meetings with Dare to Lead by Brené Brown When I first heard of Brené Brown’s latest book, Dare to Lead, it called to me. The moment I saw [...]
August 31, 2019 0 Organizing Google Drive for Schools: Create a “Hub” for Teachers I love all things Google: Slides, Classroom, Docs… the works! Our school keeps everything on Google [...]
May 12, 2019 4 5 Things Our Student-Led Environmental Conference Taught Us About Education Last week, our secondary students and teachers took a break from classes to take part in L.E.A.F. (Local [...]
April 15, 2019 2 How to Create a Buzz in the Classroom A few weeks ago, I sat in on a language arts team meeting led by our language arts coach, Omaura. Since her [...]
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 [...]