A Look at our Theme for 2023-24 School Year… In June, our staff met to discuss the theme for the upcoming year. The theme is integrated throughout the curriculum and provides the opportunity for staff to collaborate across all levels and subject areas. After some engaging discussion about our school needs, we selected the theme […]
Piece Together/Peace Together, Our 2022-2023 Theme Celebrated
Our theme for 2022-2023 was Piece Together/Peace Together. Our classes found brilliant ways to weave these themes into the curriculum. We pieced together puzzles, songs, constructions, calendars, poems, statistics, mosaics, and quilted fabrics. These projects wonderfully tied in art, math, literacy, Spanish, science, and music. I loved seeing all the different activities in the classrooms […]
Prejudice Awareness Summit
CS Middle Schoolers attend Prejudice Awareness Summit Mental Health, inclusivity and combating intolerance are all top priorities at Community School. Our guiding rule called the Big One encourages our community to respect each other, take responsibility for our actions, and create a welcoming space for everyone. In today’s world those lessons are more important than […]
Certified Schoolyard Habitat
CS Campus is a Certified Schoolyard Habitat Thanks to the hard work of two CS middle schoolers, Community School is once again a Certified Schoolyard Habitat! To achieve this certification, the students had to show our campus has food and water sources, places for animals to take cover and raise young and examples of CS’s […]
Community School at AMLE
Middle School Recognized at AMLE Conference Community School Middle School was recognized last week at the annual conference for the Association of Middle Level Education as one of the inaugural twelve schools worldwide to receive the honor of being a School of Distinction. A core goal of the program is to foster a network of […]
Our Annual Appeal
From Executive Director Linda Roth Dear Members of our Community, This school year began with gratitude for brighter and lighter days. It has been wonderful to see our families on campus for Coffee by the Creek, the Family Picnic, and the return of pizza day lunches. Fall Festival excursions returned to pre-Covid days, and we […]
Piece Together • Peace Together
The theme helps the school come together by providing a shared focus and teachers find new ways to collaborate through integrated curriculum. We wanted to find ways to make connections and work together to find solutions. Ideas and topics we talked about included threads of life, cultural preservation, pieces of art and music (mosaics, quilts, songs, stories, dance), conflict mediation, immigration and global understanding. […]
Community School Named to Schools of Distinction Program
Community School today announced that it has been named to the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) Schools of Distinction program. It is one of only 12 schools worldwide to receive this honor in the inaugural year of the program, which is designed to both recognize exemplary schools and guide them through a process of strategic vision setting to help foster ongoing growth and success. […]
An End of Year Message from Board Chair, Cassie Hunt
Today, I’m here just to say ‘thank you.’ Thank you to the parents who make the tuition payments, pack the lunches, rearrange work schedules to make 3:15 pickups, midweek conferences, and the Strawberry Festival. Thank you for the sacrifices you make to have Community School in your lives.
Thank you to our students, who have to be the luckiest kids in the world, to go to school in this environment and with these tremendous teachers. Our children have taken so many things in stride in the past few years and they have performed beautifully. […]
To the Stars, Our 2021-22 Theme Celebrated
Our theme for 2021-2022 was To the Stars. We used the theme to provide a new perspective and appreciate the stars in our life and also identify what makes each of us a star. We looked at friends, family and famous people who we admired. I was happy to see the middle school artists who selected […]
