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Care is being aware of the needs of others and going a step further so help people meet those needs. One way to foster care in a community is to teach our students to be caring individuals so that they can come together to build a caring community. If we instill good values in the classroom we can create a culture of care in our classroom as well as school wide. In the classroom teaching students to be tolerant and understand to others will create a caring learning environment. When you are caring for students it shouldn't stop at their academic  performance but it should go beyond to the well-bing of your students. There are so many strategies to promote caring but collaboration is key. Whether it be amongst the students or amongst the parents and teachers working together to create a caring environments. -Sophia Gonzalez

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-What is care? Care is giving attention, love and support to others who need it.                                                                   -In order to create a caring community, we should connect everyone's caring and have an ethic of care, which helps students grown as empathetic and caring adults and being responsible beyond the schools to serve the society. For establishing a caring community, there are five models: establishing powerful policies for equity; empowering groups; teaching caring in classrooms; caring for students and caring by students. The equity can be realized in the following ways: students selections by districtwide lottery and the inclusion of students with disabilities. The method of empowering groups is to create structures that allow for shared authority and decision making.                    -Two takeaways I would like to share are providing timely information and open communication within faculty, parents and community. Back in those days, English Only programs and discriminatory policies elude many immigrant students.The power schools silence the voice of students and parents. Having an authentic and formal structure is a guarantee of authority. Besides, cooperative learning is a good way to show caring. Because during interpersonal activities, students are able to practice their interpersonal skills and improve relationships.                     -Wei Long

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What is care?
Care is a mission to develop students who will become empathetic adults and transport this mission to their communities.

How do we foster a caring community?
We could foster a caring community by connecting everyone’s caring to create a school culture of care. The article discuss five critical activities that models and teach caring: establishing powerful policies for equity, empowering groups, teaching caring in classroom, caring for students, and caring by students. Also, we can foster a caring community by creating a caring learning environment for our students. Teacher could see the class as a big family, and treat each students as a family member. At the very beginning of the semester, teacher could establish this caring environment by letting students know we are a big family, and teacher will care for them. We will learn, help, and support each other as a family. I see this as essential for the success of developing the classroom culture where all students feel supported.

Share two takeaways you have from the article.
In the article, when the faculty at Lincoln Center Middle School asked parents and staff, “what kind of person would you like to see graduate from this school?” the resounding answer was “caring, empathetic, and proficient student.” This is a strong statement, since it can reflect the need of most students and parents. it also shows high GPA is not the only measurement for academic success, and the characteristic of caring and empathetic is as importance as GPA in school.

The article states that the staff members at LCMS have made some observation since they began focusing on caring. Student behaviors have improved, and it proves that creating a caring community will help students to learn better. -Jimmy(Heyang) Liu

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Care is considering other individuals, and showing concerns and respect to other individuals. Before every decision we make and anything we want to do, we will think about others not only ourselves and consider if our decisions cause any impacts for others.

We can foster a caring community by establishing an equity environment. Equity is the first goal that need to be met, and when people feel and respect the equity, then the caring is possible to be shown. Efficient communications are also essential, we need to listen the voices from all aspects: teachers, students, parents, and advisors. I believe caring starts from talks. Providing more activities that connect teachers, students and parents is also a good method to foster a caring community.

Two takeaways I have from the article is cooperative learning and service learning. Cooperation is essential for every individual in the society, so students need to learn to share and collaborate. They should learn to help their peers and know how to ask assistance from others. Working in groups is great way to improve students cooperative leaning. Service learning is impressed, and I never though this before. Students should not be limited into school this small community. For the society, and even the whole world, students need to show their caring and service the greater community.

Meng Lu

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As a teacher in the classroom, I can create a caring learning environment by setting clear expectations with my students. One way to do this is to take the time with my students to create a behavior matrix poster. This poster would clearly state the positive behaviors that I and my students would expect of each other in different settings (in the classroom, in the halls, etc.). The poster on its own, of course, wouldn't have any use unless students and teachers can trust each other to uphold whatever was written on it. To create this culture of caring, I would need to be the kind of teacher who is a leader in the community: someone who demonstrates that I value empowerment over obedience. Two things I took away from reading this article is that enthusiasm does not forecast success and that parent-teacher partnership is critical when it comes to creating a caring community.

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Caring is a positive attitude which shows your attention, support and kindness to other people. To foster a caring community, educators and schools should respect and value each student regardless of ethnicity, ability, gender, social class, etc. The vision of caring should be passed along to the whole community, to make each student feel welcomed and treat each other with care and respect.

Two takeaways from the article including “everyone is a leader in some way” and teaching students “share and collaborate” is part of the mission of a caring community. Students who are more willing to express themselves or have better academic performance are usually considered as individuals with more leadership. However, each individual is unique; they have potentials in different areas. For example, educators and schools should treat them equally and help to encourage students develop their potentials. By creating a caring community, it is important to not only show our care to the students, but also teach students care about each other. As students learn about the meaning and importance of caring, the structure of the whole caring community will also be fully established and strengthened. Studying in such caring community, students will be able to improve and achieve more academically; on the other hand, they will be encouraged to become better social well-beings.

Tongya (Rachel) Jia

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Care is showing interest or concern on behalf of another individual’s well being. Care can be shown in different ways and in different aspects creating a personal growth for that individual.

We can foster a caring community by communicating effectively to the students on how to establish a foundation among characteristics such as respect, inclusion, safety, and positivity. Goals should be set to progress the growth within the entire community and achieve the success of those goals and expectations placed. Students will have a more valued setting allowing them to become better individuals for each other.

Two takeaways from the article that stood out to me the most were how the community made a collaborative effort and extended their services after school at the CLC where they provided dinner and transportation as well as learning resources and programs for the students. It really demonstrates the effect of how some communities will outreach more than the typical school day but offer additional resources for students who need them, which can make up majority of the schools numbers. Another takeaway was how teachers have progresses cooperative learning within their care instruction meaning they want students to be more collaborative and share within the classroom. LCMS teachers give students the opportunity for growth, where they allow students to make mistakes because that only trains them for learning.

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One way we can create an environment is through respect. This concept of respect between everyone in the classroom is seen in the reading how simple psychological understanding can actually reduce violence. “Only the deliberate creation of caring communities holds genuine hope of reducing threats of violence.” Children acting up, anger from students, absenteeism, and dropping out are students expressing problems but not expressing these problems in a constructive way. If a teacher makes the effort to look calmly at a student, who is perhaps being disrespectful, taking into account all the different aspects of a student’s complex life, and try to understand the student, the student will reciprocate this energy that is being given to them and try and understand who their teacher is. This understanding is the basis for respect and equality amongst students and teachers. With understanding we have a lack of fear, and we can begin to respect the student’s actions and motives because the teacher knows about their causes, even if the causes are not readily apparent.

The fact that the school in the reading had no auditions or admissions requirements is a great way to have an open environment with many different students from many different types of backgrounds. The diversity of the student population due to their being no exclusionary elements to the acceptance process with an environment of respect, understanding and empathy between the students and teachers can create a school environment of profound learning where students of different backgrounds begin to relate, broadening the students world-view, and showing the student that people different from themselves are just regular students they can identify with, understand, and perhaps build a social trust that will become an academic comradery and a friendship through understanding. This leaves the student with an educational experience that gives them insight into other student’s personal lives, so they can view others in an empathetic light. The teacher will set the tone of the academic, personal and social interactions between the students of the class by their example and properly guiding the students in how to be caring and respectful.

Different students need different kind of support. If the teacher takes this into account they can create equality amongst students of varying abilities and levels of learning. Having students be in separate reading groups, for example, but still be in one class room, can be a way to create a fully supported classroom of students at many different levels.                                                                                  John Rogan

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Care is choosing to give importance to someone or something.

We can foster a caring community by setting goals and guidelines for the entire community to reach and abide by. Setting an expectation and example for all in the community to treat others with respect is a great starting point. Letting students and parents know that the classroom and school is a safe place where they are cared for, respected and valued is another. Service learning should be a strong focus in creating a caring community. It can show students the benefit of caring for others, while focusing on the importance of empathy and opening their eyes to situations beyond their daily lives.

Two takeaways from the article include creating policies for equity are crucial to a school community and focusing on equity, empowerment, and teaching caring in the classroom was critical to LCMS’s success. Showing that all people deserve the same resources sets a basic standard for caring for others. After focusing on a caring community at LCMS, there was vast improved student behavior, attendance and test scores.  Even though they are not saying caring caused it, all of those things happened after shifting focus to educating the whole person, not just teaching academics.

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Care is understanding the needs of other individuals, showing them empathy, compassion, and providing the means necessary to help that individual grow. As educators, the care we show our students can have a major impact on how they view themselves, as well as others. We can foster a caring community by modeling kindness, inclusion, acceptance, and teaching the importance of helping one another. This is especially important in the classroom where students are influenced by how they feel they are treated.

One of the take aways from the article that stood out to me was the idea of “connecting everyone’s care to create a school culture of care.” This idea is similar to the “it takes a village” sentiment, which is very true in education. The actions of teachers, parents, and administrators all have an impact on the education of a child. It is critical that they work together and share a unified sense of compassion and concern for the students in order to provide a successful caring environment.

The second take away was regarding “empowering groups for shared authority.” The administration, parents, faculty, and community work as a collective group to share in the decision making.  This creates a stronger partnership, better communication, and is the foundation in creating a community with a larger voice who can make a greater impact in the fight for caring education.

Karen Thomas

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Care is denying one's own ego and focusing on fulfilling the individual or collective needs of others, whether that be physical, social, emotional, or psychological. We can foster a caring community by instilling the ideas of compassion, empathy, inclusivity, and equity in our students by communicating and demonstrating the importance of having a community that cares and what that can do to empower all those within the community. One takeaway I had from the article was that despite special education students only making up 16% of the student population, the school made a conscious choice to educate all students together, because "inclusion begets equity and models caring." Another takeaway I had was that even though this is an arts school, they chose not to implement an audition process, because of how auditions inherently exclude or reject people. By forgoing auditions, they're sending a message that all are welcome, no matter their skill level, talent, or ability. - Jack Sutorius

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Care in the broadest sense is having concern about the well-being of others. This is important in the classroom because without a certain level of care in place to make sure a student is ready to learn, then learning cannot occur.

Examples of fostering a caring community include establishing standards of equity so all students are receiving the same opportunity, promoting cooperation among students so they learn to work together toward a common goal and putting practices in place that check in on students' well-being.

From the article, the angle of empowering parent and teacher groups was an important takeaway. Beyond just administrators making decisions, it's important to have shared decision-making through input from faculty, parents and community members. Having such decision-making authority also promotes professional development in teachers, which creates positive impact on students.

Another takeaway was the implementation of community service work with students, which is a great way to show students how caring can extend outside the classroom. Contributing to their community at large, students learn early on the positive impact they can have in their own acts of caring.

-Brandon Kirby