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 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 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 [...]
October 8, 2015 4 Teaching Vocabulary: Word of the Day Many of us were taught vocabulary by writing down a list of words and looking up their definitions in the [...]
July 5, 2015 0 Students Reflect on the Year This year we had our five-year follow-up visit from NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges) [...]
February 5, 2015 1 The Zaption Experiment A few months ago I discovered Zaption when I took The Teaching Channel’s observation [...]
January 21, 2015 0 Marine Conservation and Project-Based Learning Guest bloggers Dennis Negron (the head of TCFL’s Science Department) and Lizzie Nyitray [...]
November 18, 2014 3 Experimenting with the Flipped Classroom Flipped classroom ideas are everywhere on the internet lately and they make so much sense. [...]
November 7, 2014 0 Character Dress Up Day and the Culture of Reading Teachers greeting students Every year, near the end of October, we harness the creative fun of Halloween [...]
October 14, 2014 12 How We Teach Reading Several parents have asked me to write about the philosophy we use at TCFL to teach reading. Parents can see [...]