The Community as Classroom uses the Fruit Belt neighborhood of Buffalo, NY, as a “classroom” where students use the knowledge and skills learned in the traditional classroom to understand the ...
Whether you’re teaching in-person, remotely, or in a hybrid modality, it’s important to build a collaborative classroom community of mutual trust, respect, and understanding. It is a critical step in ...
We’ve all seen the posters throughout our campus buildings: “Face coverings required.” “Maintain distancing.” Masks and physical distancing were two of the many disruptions to learning posed by the ...
There is no need to elaborate on the urgent need to ensure that students feel a sense of belonging in their classrooms and their schools. While schools are not supposed to provide the kind of ...
Like many school social workers, Cassandra Klein has an office stocked with snacks, clothing, socks, coats, gloves and other essentials students might reach for throughout the day. She even has ...
One of my favorite parts of being an educator is the sense of community that is created with each new class of students. Fostering that feeling in person has its challenges of course, but is a bit ...
What have we been conditioned to think an effective classroom looks like? For many, it’s a vision that includes tables of students sitting quietly, working diligently as the teacher walks around or ...
Teaching improv to reserved, introspective and stressed engineering students can be challenging in person. So when the pandemic arrived, teaching remotely seemed nearly impossible. How could we build ...
December's Community Classroom teacher is Heather Lane from Jenkins Elementary School. Community Classroom highlights a teacher in South Georgia and the Big Bend once a month to help them get what ...
It is back to school time and I just completed our Student Teaching kickoff event which got me thinking about classroom community and climate. Talking with beginning teachers about ways to communicate ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - It’s time to party! That is, if you help these students have the celebration they deserve. For this month’s Community Classroom, Springwood Elementary School in Tallahassee ...