Middle School students take the lead in planning and hosting the annual Mini-Strawberry Festival While Elmwood Park fills with parent volunteers, strawberry shortcakes, and festival-goers each May, a smaller, but no less joyful celebration takes place back on campus. On the Friday of the Strawberry Festival, our Middle School students host their own Mini-Strawberry Festival […]
As technology and innovation continue to reshape the world, the ability to think critically, solve complex problems, and collaborate effectively is more important than ever. At Community School, we believe that project-based learning (PBL) equips students with the essential skills needed to succeed in today’s fast-paced world. But what is PBL, and how does it […]
From Cassie Hunt, The Next 50, Chair & Current Community School Parent It is with great pleasure that we share news of our progress and plans for the final chapter of The Next 50: A Campaign for Community School. In just a few months, our new, fully accessible building will be filled with students and teachers working together […]
From Executive Director Linda Roth Dear Families and Friends of Community School, In early October, I joined the 5–7-year-old classes to watch them release six of the monarchs that had recently emerged from their chrysalises. This is an annual event but always delights the students (and adults), and I love that they can experience the […]
Community School Breaks Ground on $1.8 Million Expansion for Middle School and Enrichment Spaces Roanoke, VA –Tuesday, October 23, 2023—Community School celebrated breaking ground on a new 15,000 square foot building designed to replace middle school structures and expand enrichment learning spaces on its Roanoke campus. The building will also replace existing structures that currently […]
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 […]
The students honored nominees Sunni Purviance and Susan Mayhew, and winner Jonathan Pait during a student-created and led event. […]
Fall Festival week was wonderful! The weather was perfect and allowed our students at all levels to take full advantage of the many outdoor happenings on and off campus. Our youngest students enjoyed the petting zoo from a local farm and seeing the more exotic animals that visited from Mill Mountain Zoo. Most exciting was the […]
While studying to become an Occupational Therapist, I found myself doing a clinical rotation in a classroom. There I discovered my love and passion for teaching. With this discovery, I quickly changed career paths to pursue early childhood education. I joined CS as a preschool teacher in 2007 and have never looked back. I credit […]
Gina Kohler holds a BFA in Dance from Kent State University (2001) and an MFA in Dance, from Hollins University/American Dance Festival (2009). She brings with her, to Community School, a wealth of knowledge and experience as a teacher and visiting artist at programs and universities throughout the country. (Read more) […]
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