April 10, 2016 7 Edcamp for Professional Development Last weekend I was lucky enough to go to the ASCD conference in Atlanta. Five educators from [...]
March 22, 2016 3 An Interview With Artist Stephanie Logroño A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing an art exhibition by one of our alumni, [...]
March 13, 2016 5 Growth: Stepping Out of Our Comfort Zones One of our graduates from the class of 2013 recently showed her work in an art exhibition called [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]