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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
April 6, 2018 6 Embedding Life and Career Skills into Our Classes Last year at The Community for Learning, we realized that our increasing focus on life skills (skills like [...]
March 3, 2018 2 Using Student Mentor Texts In Writing Workshop For the past six weeks, in my Language Arts class, I’ve been experimenting with what I call [...]
January 7, 2018 11 Creating a Buzz About Books BookwormsRD reading event. All photos in this post by Ylonka Rodriguez Recently, a small bookstore in [...]
September 30, 2017 2 Project Based Learning: Going Solar This is a guest blog by Dennis Negron, the Community for Learning’s secondary school science [...]