August 9, 2023 0 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 [...]
March 21, 2023 0 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 [...]
December 4, 2022 0 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 [...]
April 22, 2022 2 How to Use Learning Journeys to Facilitate Student-Led Learning After spending a year and a half in remote learning, many of our students were having difficulty returning to [...]
February 25, 2022 2 Reigniting the Reading Flame After a year and a half of remote learning, we’re finally back in the classroom and we can’t wait [...]
October 10, 2021 0 Empowering Students Through Self-Assessment of the Writing Process Sandy is busily writing the first draft of her personal narrative in 7th grade language arts. Ten minutes [...]
August 29, 2020 1 Making Virtual Class Discussions Engaging Using the TQE Method, Breakout Rooms, and Self-Assessment Example of one group’s work in our virtual TQE discussion. A couple of years ago, I came across [...]
May 23, 2020 2 Lessons from Virtual Learning: How to Improve Assessment I’m not very proud of what I’m going to write, since I can’t believe it took me so long to [...]
January 25, 2020 0 Differentiated Grammar Lessons I have a confession to make: I’m a language arts teacher who has always dreaded teaching grammar. Part [...]
December 7, 2019 6 Three Reasons We Should Still Teach Creative Writing in Secondary In language arts classes, as our students move into upper secondary school, teachers tend to move away from [...]