What can a school be? This is a question that today’s guest Carla Meyrink has had to consider constantly since co-founding The Community For Learning in 1998, a school Carla and two others started in Santo Domingo to live out the values of education they believed were best for students.
In this conversation, Carla shares about how The Community For Learning school began and the ways they continue to live out the value of community in all facets: student-centered classrooms built around inquiry; responsive professional development amongst teachers; and an ongoing, collective imagining of how school can be better going forward.
(Note: there are a few snippets of wind chimes at points in this episode, so feel free to enjoy the summer-themed, very-organic background music!)
In order to learn more about Carla and her work, you can follow her journey at her blog, The Teaching Experiment.
Thanks, as always, to:
Alberto Lugo, one of Jim’s former students, for writing and recording original intro music; Tom Csatari for allowing us to use his band’s recording of “Woodstock” from their 2020 album, Garden; and Courtney Milavec for graphic design.
Find Tom’s work at uncivilizedtom.com, and on Instagram @banduncivilized.
Find Alberto’s work at djsynchro.weebly.com, and on Instagram @djsynchro.
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