August 17, 2014 2 Giving up Control 7th Grade reading club This summer I had a huge “aha” moment about teaching. I’ve always [...]
August 5, 2014 0 Review: The Book Whisperer The old saying that “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear” rings true over and over [...]
January 19, 2014 2 The Green Experiment, Part 2: Composting This is the second article in a series about sustainable environmental projects in schools, by guest blogger [...]
January 9, 2014 3 The Green Experiment, Part 1 This is the first in a series of guest posts written by Laura Tejeda, a former Community for Learning Science [...]
December 6, 2013 9 Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8 I’m trying to put my finger on what makes Debbie Silver’s book, Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up [...]
July 17, 2013 8 The Discipline Experiment When we first opened up the Community for Learning, I had just finished reading Punished by Rewards by Alfie [...]
July 3, 2013 3 Defining Project-Based Learning Someone just asked me “So, what is Project Based Learning?” and after making a couple of attempts [...]
June 23, 2013 0 Project Based Learning – References The first step of our leap into Project Based Learning (PBL) will be to immerse ourselves in research and [...]
June 19, 2013 0 Intro I became a teacher by accident. While visiting the Dominican Republic, way back when, I was asked to teach a [...]