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 [...]
August 28, 2018 1 Creating Community from Day One Creating a strong sense of community is essential in education. It’s clear that students who feel safe [...]
July 16, 2018 6 All of Them Are “Our Children” Photo by Zahid Hasan Joy on Unsplash A couple of weeks ago, a friend posted a picture of a family sleeping on [...]
June 3, 2018 2 The Outdoors Club: A Student Leadership Initiative When we say we want our students to become “lifelong learners,” we’re not simply talking [...]
May 11, 2018 7 Going Gradeless in Math Class About a month ago, I read Andrew Bernett’s blog post How to Create a Gradeless Math Classroom in a [...]
April 14, 2018 7 Empowering Students: Setting Life Skill Goals After introducing students to life skills (skills like critical thinking, communication, leadership, and time [...]