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Read Overview & Community Building

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Read Overview & Belonging and Emotional Safety

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Overview & Student-Centered Discipline

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Overview & Fostering Academic Mindsets

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Overview & Aligning SEL & Academic Objectives

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Overview & Using Interactive Pedagogy

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If you take time to build relationships and a sense of community, teachers can create a safer, more equitable environment where all students participate and achieve.

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If you take time to build relationships and a sense of community, teachers can create a safer, more equitable environment where all students participate and achieve.

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4 Key components of a caring classroom community:

Mutually respectful, supportive relationships between students, teachers, and parents.

Frequent opportunities for students to help and collaborate with others.

Frequent opportunities for student voice and agency, including over the classroom shared agreements, how conflicts are resolved, and what content is studied.

A sense of shared purpose and ideals among all members of the classroom.

SEL teams can foster community-building in all classrooms by supporting teachers

Creating classroom shared agreements is a powerful strategy for developing a sense of community.
Make sure to:

Include all students, especially those who don’t normally speak up, in writing the agreements.

Make sure all students feel comfortable with the agreements.

Revisit classroom shared agreements frequently; for example, to set the tone before a lesson, or as a reflection and self-assessment tool following a lesson or activity.

The space teachers create for their students matters, and can encourage students to think of themselves as an interdependent community of learners.

Strategies:

Designate whole-group meeting spots (e.g., carpet area), preferably away from students’ tables.

Create displays for student work and interactive bulletin boards, and invite students to contribute.

Build students’ sense of ownership and self-management skills by setting up a class library and storage area that students are responsible for maintaining.

Establish a space where students can voluntarily go to cool down or talk through challenges or conflicts (for example, a Peace Area).

Ensure that images around your classroom space reflect a diversity in culture, race, experience, gender, age, etc.

*A school’s efforts at SEL are more likely to succeed if you consistently make space to discuss SEL implementation.

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Setting high expectations is IMPERATIVE!!!
* allow for productive struggle!
* express genuine interest in student thinking.
* Have students explain their thinking!

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* Provide opportunities to revise work!
* Talk to students about mistakes we've made! We've been there and done that in many cases... This is how we all learn and grow!
* Give students time to talk about their struggles. They want to be heard and understood.
* Prioritize learning that refrains from one right answer!
*Parent teacher relationships are important!

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* make connections between content and real world issues.
* Students need relevant information and skills to be taught to them!
* Teach students about stereotype threats and how it impacts their learning and performance. (Matt test example)

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Building a strong sense of community.

Creating structures that foster belonging and emotional safety.

Establishing student-centered discipline practices that promote SEL.

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Providing strategies for students to monitor and regulate their behavior and emotions.

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Providing tools for students to problem-solve, work through conflicts, and repair harm.

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How students wish to be treated and will treat one another.
Include all especially the quiet ones.
All must agree w/norms.
Revisit frequently.
Have fun!

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Teaching and modeling self-reflection.

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Classroom routines provide safety. A structure that students can be free and flexible within.

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Responding consistently and fairly when classroom shared agreements are breached, but also understanding students’ individual needs and the root causes of behaviors.

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Teachers who affirm students’ identities communicate in ways that show that they genuinely care for and respect each student, and that they believe all students’ knowledge, life experiences, and culture are an asset to the classroom community.

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office hours
mentoring
POD Time
community  meetings
Student Council
School Exhibition
Having fun interacting project/classes
field trips

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To support classroom shared agreements:

Include all students, especially those who don’t normally speak up, in writing the agreements.

Make sure all students feel comfortable with the agreements.

Revisit classroom shared agreements frequently; for example, to set the tone before a lesson, or as a reflection and self-assessment tool following a lesson or activity.

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The space teachers create for their students matters, and can encourage students to think of themselves as an interdependent community of learners.

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Student-centered discipline involves engaging students as decision-makers and problem-solvers

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Student-centered discipline involves engaging students as decision-makers and problem-solvers

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This process:

Cultivates and maintains trusting relationships, and is respectful of students.

Helps students understand their impact on others, build empathy, and repair harm they may have caused.

Prioritizes keeping students in the learning environment, engaged with peers and support systems.

Is responsive to the cultural, developmental, and school context for behavior and aims to end the disproportionate use of harsh punishment of students of color.

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- Teacher facilitates discussion by providing students with well designed questions to drawn out students thinking so student's ultimately take ownership of the process by asking each other questions, building on each other's ideas, disagreeing thoughtfully, etc.