The lunar eclipse this Friday has me thinking about the best places to get science news, activities and events for our students.

Celebrating Women's History Month this year at Kalexedy I decided to make it my mission to connect my students' personal family histories...

If there's a holiday (Alien Abduction Day, anyone?), we're looking forward to celebrating it. We have fun as a learning community

"I found a tooth!" isn't something you'd expect a sixth grader exclaim in your classroom and be excited about, but this week...

Picture this: a group of students huddled around a table, laughing, debating, and strategizing their next moves. No, this isn’t recess,

Our interns are here on Fridays, and those correspond with the days that our enrichments are led by students – which gives them so many

It’s easy to set resolutions and even easier to quickly abandon them, but one of the ways we are approaching the New Year at Kalexedy

While we don’t have a school bus or need to plan field trips a year in advance, we can nimbly choose our field trips based on interest

I planned a four week series, one lesson a week of a bonafide “Writers’ Workshop” series where we all meet in our collaborative space

We have a multi-age classroom at our learning center and as a result have a large variety of books that our students are interested in readi

This is a great elementary or middle grade STEAM activity for homeschoolers or a classroom -- we did it this month with our students...

My teacher friends all technically have single-age classrooms but can tell you that within each classroom the social and academic abilities

Enrichments take many forms and have many different driving inspirations. Last Friday, it was "Kids Choice" and the request was...

Clad in shadow-blending all black, our student-led enrichment kicked off with the click of a lock. Our would be spies were instructed in...