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- lead warm up in team mtgs
- offer to support without overextending yourself.
- shadowing a great teacher.
- invite for a walk around the block.

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- Home visits (virtual or in person)
- Dismissal hangout
- Visit a family business
- find out what's important to the family and learn about it

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- Grade team "competition"
- Discuss, who are we as Learners?
- morning message
- connection time
- fictional story time
- restorative circles.
- Routine for "turning on" the brain
- Establishing fun routines to become learning ready.
- co-constructing classroom expectations

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- my lived experiences shoe box collection (pictures, toys, trinkets, etc)
- early arrival hangout
- lunch dates
- dismissal hangout
- supervising extracurricular activities
- quick one minute social check ins

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SEL entry tasks, community circles, taking time to joke around and have fun

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Class social media site and weekly newsletters home

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Not being afraid to reach out for help, don't get caught up in the gossip, look for your "marigold"

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Usually calling home or home visits or having them make up a story about how they get to school everyday, during school, and after school.

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Make the good phone calls! When a student is having a good day or succeeded, call the parents to let them know.

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Make the good phone calls! When a student is having a good day or succeeded, call the parents to let them know.

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Send weekly (biweekly maybe) update emails to parents, communicate good things about students not just the issues. 

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Send weekly (biweekly maybe) update emails to parents, communicate good things about students not just the issues. 

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Taking notes on birthdays, sports, games, milestones, and making reminders for myself to ask students about them as they come up

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Finding out what extracurricular activities students are involved in an attending concerts/games/presentations/etc.

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Selfie/ Portrait that combines visual and linguistic portions about their identities- share/ present

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Selfie/ Portrait that combines visual and linguistic portions about their identities- share/ present

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Attending a student's sports game, drama performance, dance recital, etc

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Attending a student's sports game, drama performance, dance recital, etc

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I love spending time with students during breakfast time. I also would like to incorporate a question of the day that students will have the opportunity to share about during the first few minutes of our class time.

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Finding students “why?”

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Ask what topics/themes they will teach so I can make interdisciplinary connections in Art.

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Page in their sketchbooks (like a mosaic) that is all about them. I can use as a jumping off point to get to know them, they can use as a reference when trying to think of project ideas that relate to themselves.

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Page in their sketchbooks (like a mosaic) that is all about them. I can use as a jumping off point to get to know them, they can use as a reference when trying to think of project ideas that relate to themselves.

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chat at a teacher's lounge to know each other

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chat at a teacher's lounge to know each other

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- play with students at center time
- reading with a student one-on-one
- being open and honest

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Creating a community event / night at our school to invite families to come spend time at the school with teachers / staff.

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Creating a community event / night at our school to invite families to come spend time at the school with teachers / staff.

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Restorative circles and fun!

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Quick class meeting to check in, see how they are feeling, practice non-verbal communication (ASL), heads up about objectives

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Quick class meeting to check in, see how they are feeling, practice non-verbal communication (ASL), heads up about objectives

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Inviting them to share their stories through student-led presentations

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Inviting them to share their stories through student-led presentations

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Four corners activity where you ask questions and have students go to the corner that best fits their answer and dialogue with other students at the same corner.

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Four corners activity where you ask questions and have students go to the corner that best fits their answer and dialogue with other students at the same corner.

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Sharing a comic-format about me on first day and inviting students to make their own and share

Making a playlist with my older elementary students and using that music during their opening activity or to emphasize steady beat activities

Inviting them to come help/jam out on their/my breaks in the day

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Get involved with the community, get active in extra curriculars. set aside time for students to share/build a community in the classroom. 

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Get involved with the community, get active in extra curriculars. set aside time for students to share/build a community in the classroom. 

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At the beginning of the year have students create "artistic licenses" where they answer questions about themselves such as "favorites colors, favorite art (if any), favorite things to do, what they want to learn in art this year etc... Then they can draw a picture or characterization of themselves in their license

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I love to find out what my students are doing online and for fun. Then I try to meet them where they're at. I try to build them up and then figure out their world.

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Create an online gallery for families to see their student's artwork.

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One-on-one conferences. During group or individual work time, walking around the classroom and chatting with students, sitting next to them in their space, seeing where they are at that day

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One-on-one conferences. During group or individual work time, walking around the classroom and chatting with students, sitting next to them in their space, seeing where they are at that day

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While students are working on their art, go around the room and talk to them one on one. Have daily check ins with each student. Make time to check in with students who are struggling especially. Ask them about their interests, what's going on in their lives, etc. and be willing to share about yourself.

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While students are working on their art, go around the room and talk to them one on one. Have daily check ins with each student. Make time to check in with students who are struggling especially. Ask them about their interests, what's going on in their lives, etc. and be willing to share about yourself.

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Lots of positive reinforcement, students coming up with fun table names, having students help in decoration of classroom/designing class agreement, etc.

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Lots of positive reinforcement, students coming up with fun table names, having students help in decoration of classroom/designing class agreement, etc.

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Work to find ways for cross content collaboration

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Art website connected to school/ district website. Showcase student examples. Update projects working on. Have a platform for communication/ discussion.

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Art website connected to school/ district website. Showcase student examples. Update projects working on. Have a platform for communication/ discussion.

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- Conscious Discipline- I Love You Rituals
- using partners
- team building activities

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-Reaching out at the beginning of the year.
-Sending the start of year survey to 'student's people'
-Messaging parents to praise students for their work and interactions

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Invite your team to HH, BBQ, picnic in the park. After the initial one then have them include their partners, children, fur babies, in a future get together.

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Have students share the songs that "make up" their life

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Allow students to write personal narratives. That way they can tell their own story and get some practice writing in a low stakes way

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Allow students to write personal narratives. That way they can tell their own story and get some practice writing in a low stakes way

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I like the idea of students creating their own name tags for their learning spaces. Or creating class commitments together.

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Take the time to ask them questions when i see them around school, take the extra few minutes at the end of class to chat, have them share about what they are doing how they are feeling.

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listening to their conversations with their peers and creating relevant conversations accordingly

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listening to their conversations with their peers and creating relevant conversations accordingly

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Playing games like 4 corners to get students to learn commonalities they have with their peers. Asking questions such as favorite sports, favorite animals, favorite foods, etc..

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Creating scavenger hunts where students have to find things that they have in common.

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1)invite family to the classroom if someone can talk a specific cultural topic. 2) send a classroom note as an email

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1)invite family to the classroom if someone can talk a specific cultural topic. 2) send a classroom note as an email

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Taking the time to pause when needed in teaching and address social issues as they arrise.

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Virtual home visit at start of year

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90 seconds sharing. Students rotate each day to share about someone that they admire at the beginning of the class. That is a ''surface'' sharing but helps them to connect and start deeper conversations later in time. 

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90 seconds sharing. Students rotate each day to share about someone that they admire at the beginning of the class. That is a ''surface'' sharing but helps them to connect and start deeper conversations later in time. 

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I try to develop a customer service mentality with the parents by calling home at least to my advisory students, knowing their families, building maps of their family trees, what they do for fun, and what they do together. That helps me understand their world view much better. I try to develop and give them a sense of my world world view.

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Group work! Seems obvious but I noticed this past year students were craving time to work together and when they got it, it changed the atmosphere of the room.

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Group work! Seems obvious but I noticed this past year students were craving time to work together and when they got it, it changed the atmosphere of the room.

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Find ways to collab with different content areas / specials. 

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Find ways to collab with different content areas / specials. 

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FAC's - Friday Afternoon Club

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Make sure communication (texts, emails, etc) is in their home language

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Sharing students' work digitally and through art show events, making a habit of sending at least 1 positive email home to a parent a day (ideally more), inviting families to volunteer, etc.

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Sharing students' work digitally and through art show events, making a habit of sending at least 1 positive email home to a parent a day (ideally more), inviting families to volunteer, etc.

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Really utilize the time and resources that i have with other teachers/ admin. Make sure i go to all the planning meetings, etc.

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- communicate often (especially what the student is doing well)
- invite parents into the classroom
- virtual class visits

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Communicate often. Ask questions. Take time to learn who they are. Observations of each other, constructive criticism

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Communicate often. Ask questions. Take time to learn who they are. Observations of each other, constructive criticism

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Allowing students a venue to express themselves artistically, without judgement about subject matter.

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On the first day of classes I like to have Bingo boards with yes/no questions in each box that students walk around the room asking each other and trying to find a classmate who answers "yes" for each box. I do this in Spanish and I also participate and encourage students to ask me the questions as well. In the past I made up the questions but I think having the class get involved in creating them would be a better way for me to get to know them!

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Building a playlist for your school by asking the colleagues their favorite song/band.

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Art newsletter, art website.. ability for parents to like/comment/etc on site. Phones calls home, asking for volunteers in the classroom etc

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start a group chat
bring favorite treats or thoughtful notes

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Just try to get to know their lives and hear their stories (even accessing the fast friendship protocol).

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Class check in
One one one opportunities
Giving the students the chance to share activities they enjoy outside of the facility

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Observe in classrooms, talk to people (don't be an art hermit in my art cave), positive assumptions!! :)

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Observe in classrooms, talk to people (don't be an art hermit in my art cave), positive assumptions!! :)

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Invite student's people to join you on a field trip

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Help them get to know each other- someone yesterday suggested a great activity of highlighting 1 student each day by sharing 2 Truths & a Lie from their beginning of the year survey and having class guess which was false.

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I am a Japanese teacher, so I welcome my students in the classroom with greetings in Japanese!

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I am a Japanese teacher, so I welcome my students in the classroom with greetings in Japanese!

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- reaching out to members of the team
- introduce yourself
- ask for collaboration

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I always start with a wellness Wheel activity in middle school  and also high school. This is a way to know more about students, their lives, and also about their personal experiences. Besides, the idea is to make students have a personal reflection in their lives to check aspects they need to improve. We can also include activities related to metacognition. Learning how we learn.

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I always start with a wellness Wheel activity in middle school  and also high school. This is a way to know more about students, their lives, and also about their personal experiences. Besides, the idea is to make students have a personal reflection in their lives to check aspects they need to improve. We can also include activities related to metacognition. Learning how we learn.

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Pay attention to student's interests both inside and outside of school and make it a point to ask about the interests at a later date.

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Using "I notice..." statements- especially helpful in building relationships with students who are a bit "prickly". Just shows them you are paying attention to them but not judging.

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Have heard of schools where teachers and students eat lunch together! Sounded like an amazing opportunity to build relationships.

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Have heard of schools where teachers and students eat lunch together! Sounded like an amazing opportunity to build relationships.

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Spending extra time with students at lunch or recess. 

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Spending extra time with students at lunch or recess. 

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Regular show and tells where we rotate student highlights and they get to bring in a photo or trinket to talk about.

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Remember that every staff member counts. Have coffee with janitor, ask the cafeteria staff how they're doing, be kind to the front desk. They can be your biggest assets. PLUS: Students are always watching.

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Flipgrid video to communicate in Japanese/English to introduce themselves

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Flipgrid video to communicate in Japanese/English to introduce themselves

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ask them their preferred name

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Collaboration projects or activities where students have to talk to each other (or not) and work together to accomplish a common goal

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Make it a ritual to make positive phone calls home during class. Your class will quiet down and praise that student(s).

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I personally take advantage of the different cultural celebrations like the Hispanic Heritage, Black History, among others to engage and connect with families and celebrate diversity.

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Daily check ins and being genuinely interested in what they want to share

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Daily check ins and being genuinely interested in what they want to share

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I like to involve SEL tools in learning and like to do fun and creative activities

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I like to involve SEL tools in learning and like to do fun and creative activities

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Being open to helping them, saying hello in the halls

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Being open to helping them, saying hello in the halls

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Send postcards to students parents with a shout out

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Greeting in the morning, personal check-ins, attending sporting events

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Getting silly together, playing games, telling them personal stories and hearing theirs

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Build their personal experiences into lessons, what personal examples from their lives resonate with what we are learning?

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I ask parents if students have an extra curricular activities outside of school I can attend like games or even Birthday parties.

Also sending projects for students to do at home with parents.

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Regular contact though emails about school/class events, positive communications, attending sporting events with the family

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Making positive phone calls, especially early in the year.

Park day with families.

Beginning of the year meet and greet.

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Creating a Classroom Remind for parents, this allows easy communication between you and your students families. 

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Creating a Classroom Remind for parents, this allows easy communication between you and your students families. 

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Ask them for music they like to play in class when we have independent time.

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Ask them for music they like to play in class when we have independent time.

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credit Dane Stickney: Map to Write activity (students draw pictures and a map to help recall details of a place important to them; helps them share a narrative; connect to plot diagramming and the arc of a story, etc.)

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Hold social gathers in the School or even outside ( Weekly lunches with your department) 

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Hold social gathers in the School or even outside ( Weekly lunches with your department) 

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Talk about the things you have in common with kids. Check in with kids 1:1. Invite them to lunches. 

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Talk about the things you have in common with kids. Check in with kids 1:1. Invite them to lunches. 

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Visit students at their outside jobs. Visit them in the neighborhoods where they live. As a music director, I'm fortunate to get to know each students' personal talent (in my case, singing) through one-on-one "lessons." Essentially tutoring for vocal music!

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Visit students at their outside jobs. Visit them in the neighborhoods where they live. As a music director, I'm fortunate to get to know each students' personal talent (in my case, singing) through one-on-one "lessons." Essentially tutoring for vocal music!