Community School

02/05/2026

🏆 Proud moment!

We are so inspired & encouraged by young people who value giving back to their community! Congrats to all of these young women for their achievements.

We are especially proud of our very own Caroline Schoonover, co-founder of the CE Byrd High School service club, Community Works! Our learners of all ages & our staff have been impacted by her service. We love you, Caroline! (📸 Pictured bottom left corner)

02/05/2026

We’re still not over our morning with the Krewe of Gemini! We loved every minute of it. If you caught great moments, please share in comments.
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02/04/2026

02/04/2026

Krewe of Gemini is coming this morning! Just a reminder to wear your best 💜💛💚 gear. Parents & grandparents, we would love you to jump in on the fun if your morning allows.

💜💚 We sure love doing life together. 💚💛

02/02/2026

🌈It’s Monday!
Get to school, kids.

02/01/2026

💡The INNOVATION LAB.
💡The MAKERSPACE.

Everybody’s favorite place to go.
Everybody’s favorite STEM teacher.

Creating is a muscle to exercise. We believe you should CREATE everyday. A drawing. A poem. A project. A solution. Create something today & involve another person. Collaborate!

📸 Pictured below: One of our brilliant students creating items for the model treehouse they have built.

01/31/2026

What a better way to go into the weekend than with gratitude for a week of big wins. Here’s just one of many…

✨🌟 KID to WATCH 🌟✨

She’s learning. She’s exploring. She’s creative. She’s inquisitive. She’s experimenting with language & communication skills. She’s excited about reading. She loves group instruction.

✨She’s a kid to watch.✨

Most importantly, she loves her friends. She asks about them when they aren’t there. She senses when others may feel left out & seeks to include them. She’s a lover, always giving away sweet hugs in the hallway. She has a heart of gold. She is changing the way people perceive individuals with autism with her natural eye contact, affectionate personality, and insatiable joint attention.

✨Now, that’s a kid to watch.✨

01/30/2026

❄️Bring on this beautiful FRIDAY!❄️

We are enjoying each other this week. We are hitting our targets hard, focusing on building meaningful connections in the classroom, and smiling through it all. 🩵

Here are some key ingredients to success:

❄️ Build environments tailored for all.

❄️ Provide instructional materials and tools across modalities.

❄️ Acknowledge all behavior is communicating something.

❄️ Start your day by saying your 3 priorities of the day/session OUT LOUD. This keeps us focused on contriving learning opportunities that set the stage for targets to occur!

❄️ And, last but not least, celebrate & reinforce the heck out of every achievement (big or small). Kids need to know how proud you are of them. They also need to know their worth is not performance-based. Deliver all of the love, safety, and encouragement for free (we call this non-contingent reinforcement). Save some special goodies/awards/high fives for the targets!

01/29/2026

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When the gang is back together again…
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So thankful for our hard-working staff who DREAM - CREATE - ANALYZE - DEBATE - BUILD - DESIGN - ADJUST - COLLABORATE - CONNECT - COMMIT- PLAN - PREPARE
… all for our precious learners.

❄️There is no place like Community School.

01/29/2026

CS is back in full swing!
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Doors open at 7:45 am in the morning. Drive safe. No need to rush. For those in areas that are still icy, enjoy your time at home.

01/28/2026

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We are so ready to be back together again! For those in areas deemed safe to drive tomorrow, we are OPEN. Carline begins at 9:45! For everyone else, enjoy your time together at home. We will see you soon enough.

❄️ Oh, and feel free to bring your stir-crazy brothers & sisters. These are the BEST days & the BEST memories!