The Teaching Experiment

I'm incredibly excited to have my post about TCFL's Project Day published in the Teachers Going Gradeless blog.

Interested in knowing more about how TCFL is empowering students with a move towards more integrated learning? Check it out at

Empowering Students through Project Day — Teachers Going Gradeless Carla Meyrink, co-founder and secondary director at The Community for Learning, explains how a biweekly Project Day has revolutionized her school by providing students with the freedom to explore and create, free from the pressure of grades. It has lowered stress levels, encouraged creativity, and p

This! 💜💜💜

On a recent plane trip, as we were all disembarking, I walked past a mother and a child still seated. They were reading Blueberries for Sal.
I said, “Blueberries for Sal! I love that book. I remember my mother reading it to me.”
Mother and child both looked up. The mother smiled and said, “She wanted to hear the story just one more time. How could I refuse?”
“You couldn’t,” I said. “Thank goodness you didn’t.”
To everyone who reads a book aloud to a child “just one more time”—thank goodness for you.

not only empowers & motivates Ss but it also puts them in the driver's seat to take responsibility for their own learning. PBL helps Ss develop the competencies they need to become life-long learners.

Teaching Independence With Project-Based Learning - The Teaching Experiment Our 6th grade Language Arts (LA) teacher, Christina Perez, had always known that moving to 7th grade — and thus, the beginning of secondary school — was difficult for our students. But this year, when she herself began to teach 7th grade LA, she saw first-hand how stressful this change can be. T...

A reminder we probably need to hear often....

Thanks for the reminder, Dr. Lee Ann Jung