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 […]
Groundbreaking on New Building
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 […]
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 […]
CS Students Honor Local Hero
The students honored nominees Sunni Purviance and Susan Mayhew, and winner Jonathan Pait during a student-created and led event. […]
Another Fall Festival in the Books
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 […]
Teacher Feature: Katlyn Oldham
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 […]
Teacher Feature: Gina Kohler
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) […]
Black Lives Matter
But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the […]
Some Bright Spots at CS
Dear Families and Friends of Community School, Last week was our first week back after spring break. Many of the older students began their on-line classes with a more structured schedule, and the younger students began to experiment with some video conferencing with Zoom. Please continue to be patient and understanding with teachers and students as we […]
Update on School Closure from Linda Roth
Dear Community School Families, Today Governor Northam revised the date for keeping K-12 schools closed in Virginia. The closure is now extended until the end of the school year. Although we thought this was a possibility; it is not what we wanted to hear. That said, we will follow the state guidelines and ask you to […]
