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 […]

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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 […]

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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) […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Thoughts on Balance and the Close of Another School Year

This year our theme was Balance. Our staff embraced this because we realize how important it is in our lives and also it is a vital component in educating the whole child. The only constant in life is change. We have to be able to see this as an opportunity and not a crisis. Community School embraces […]

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