Towards the start of my teaching career, I had a student that I was constantly butting heads with. He challenged every direction I gave. He questioned everything. We seemed to spend more time frustrating each other than actually learning. One afternoon, I realized that nothing I was doing was working. So, I decided to stop trying to fix the situation and start trying to understand it. "Hey bud," I said. "It feels like we're driving each other bananas. What's going on? How can

Recently, I've found myself thinking about a simple question: What does it mean to protect childhood? Not preserve it in amber. Not pretend the world hasn't changed. Not reject technology or modern life. Simply protect it. Because childhood feels different than it did when many of us were growing up. Children today are navigating a world that is louder, faster, more connected, more scheduled, and more carefully managed than ever before. They are exposed to more information, m

Yellow Superstars with Emily May was the last month we spent together as Yellow Superstars. As we wrapped up academics and reflected on our super year, we smiled at past memories, laughed at jokes, and reviewed all in which we learned this year. We can't wait to watch these amazing learners blast off into their futures! For Community Day, learners had lots to display to our GAP School families. Their narrative writing on the butterfly life cycle was their debut as authors a

Yellow Superstars with Emily In the month of April, the Yellow Superstars wrapped up their last unit with a pizza party! Through our shared class goal, learners celebrated their money skills as we ate this meal together. After our celebration ended, the Superstars have been researching and investigating our next big idea: GAP-ologies! As the Yellow Superstars studied our big idea, they investigated a very important question: what is an ology? After identifying that "-ology"

Yellow Superstars with Emily March for the Yellow Superstars has been victorious, hands on, and experimental! Learners were so excited to see their hard work displayed at Community Day. The success of their society project left them feeling tons of pride and a strong sense of community. The Superstar society consisted of an office, library, pizza parlor, veterinary clinic, and bank. Each Learner interviewed for the jobs they were interested in and were assigned daily tasks f

Yellow Superstars with Emily The month of February has been full of love, determination, and dedication as the Yellow Superstars explore the "building blocks of society." In ELA, the Yellow Superstars have been learning the difference between a fictional story's theme and the main idea in a nonfiction book. While we read fictional stories we follow the adventures of The Little Polar Bear ! The little polar bear is a lovable friend from the Artic who explores many different