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Individual student perspectives and contributions are acknowledged by adults.

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Student Photographers Document History During the Pandemic

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Students are encouraged to share their feedback and opinions.

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Edutopia is a free source of information, inspiration, and practical strategies for learning and teaching in preK-12 education. We are published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.

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Students participating in meetings and contribute to decision-making processes that effect their learning.

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Whether you are in a school, home, faith-based, or community setting, your group can build community through brief check-ins. Check-in meetings should last between 3-15 minutes. Young people may sit in a circle for meetings that build empathy or sit in rows for planning meetings. Be sure to state the purpose of the meeting.

Below are some types of meetings.

1. Emotional Check-In: Each person says one word describing how they are doing. This is quick and gives a snapshot of what participants are experiencing. Follow up with people later, not during the quick check-in.

2. Group Agreements Meeting: What are the procedures for listening and taking turns in discussions? What are the constructive ways to give feedback? What are some sentence stems that can help us start difficult conversations? How do we disagree with respect? How do we listen?

3. Group Protocols Meeting: What are the signals for quiet, thinking time, I need help, and other common communications? How do we "think/pair/share"? What are the bathroom procedures?

4. Good News Meeting: "Who has some good news to share?" This may be limited to three people in one meeting.

5. Circle Whip Meeting: Go around the circle and have participants complete a sentence starter (they may pass). Sample sentence starters: One thing I like about yesterday's meeting is... A decision I think we should make is... Something that bothers me is...

6. Goal Setting Meeting: Discuss the goals for the day or project.

7. Conflict Resolution Meeting: Build skills of disagreeing with respect and working toward a resolution. Develop the capacity to wait to solve issues. Learn to balance listening and talking. Practice repeating what you heard even when you don't agree.

8. Reflection Meeting: Talk about how an activity or project went. How well did you work together? What was good about it? What could we do better? What did you learn?

9. Academic Issues: Why are we studying this? What do we know already? What do we need to know? Who are the experts we can learn from? How can we use our knowledge to make something better?

10. Concept Meeting: Talk about how-to or definitions. For example, how to shake someone's hand and look them in the eye. How to make a friend. How to ask for help.

11. Sticky Situations Meeting: What should you do if you find a wallet? If you see someone steal something? If you see someone alone at lunch? If you know someone is hungry?

End the meeting with a summary or reflection.

Check for understanding with a silent signal, such as hold two fingers by your heart to mean one thing and one finger by your heart to mean another thing. This keeps their answer private and you can quickly see full participation.

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Whether you are in a school, home, faith-based, or community setting, your group can build community through brief check-ins. Check-in meetings should last between 3-15 minutes. Young people may sit in a circle for meetings that build empathy or sit in rows for planning meetings. Be sure to state the purpose of the meeting.

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Students are given explicit roles to take on and are empowered to apply their agency and creativity within that role.
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Students take on identifying problems and solutions and advocate for change.

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6th Grade Students Are Recognized By City Council

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Students co-plan, co-execute, and share responsibility for outcomes of their learning process.

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Boyle Heights High School Student Maps Course to Future

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This is something that I want to implement better in the fall. I always go in with the intention of having an amazing, meaningful morning meeting, but it gets pushed to the wayside by the need to bring in CONTENT. But my heart knows that by having an impactful meeting to start the day, I will have more student engagement and thus more learning in the content areas as well as more mindful, respectful students.- Carri McGuire