How do you facilitate... by Logan Walther

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Positive affirmations

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Morning chant with movements connected to agreements

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Check ins when entering

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Schedule is addressed at the beginning of every class. Use of visuals and familiar phrases

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Morning greetings

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Connect music/learning material to their interests and things happening in their life.

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Morning Greetings

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Classroom calendar (writing down personal events for each student)

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Highlighting diverse books that students can connect to

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Always starting groups with a positive moment from me & the students

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Morning greetings at door

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Classroom chant and agreements created collaboratively

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Allowing students to build classroom expectations and rules

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Class circle and/or creativity exercises to start the day

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Interest surveys to learn more about students and incorporate into teaching

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Spaces of their own.

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It’s ok to make mistakes and be vulnerable when I make one

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Check-ins throughout the day

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Incorporating their likes & interests into lessons and discussions

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Creating group agreements and starting off each day reciting them together

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Morning greetings, being present in the hallway

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Celebrating mini victories for every student

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Morning chant, question of the day

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Positive moments

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Daily slides with questions and prompts to build classroom relationships and get to know students.

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Celebrating students

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Students create classroom rules and follow through throughout the year

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Family meetings, morning chants, positive moments, rose bud thorn, birthdays, & morning greetings!

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family meetings!!

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“I am statements”

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Morning greetings

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Beginning groups with conversations about them. Interest inventory

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I wish my teacher knew, classroom jobs, family meetings

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Finding activities/texts that match their interests and keep them engaged

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Class promise

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Connecting back to their interests and following up with what they say

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Pictures of how students can expect to look, sound, and feel

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Greeting as many students as they enter the building, consistently.

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Consistent routine and notify students when there is a change in the schedule

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Jokes!

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Personal and private check ins

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Call back patterns, have students lead 🎵 🎻

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Team and family meetings (rose, bud, thorn), all about me slides, star student, building a strong community. Acknowledge positive behaviors, celebrate each others successes. Students taking on responsibility roles in the class.

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Roots project, students complete a cultural presentation about their unique celebrations and share out with the class

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Consistency!

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We celebrate a new language each week with our Hello Chain - starting with languages represented in our classroom first!

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Providing a functional space where students can be creative and feel safe to explore new ideas

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Fostering healthy relationships during guided discovery

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Honest check-ins & teacher being vulnerable

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Including students and interests into content whenever possible, also brings math into the real world!

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Names, pictures, wow wall around the room. Supplies availability, clear routines & expectations. Activities that match interest

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Starting groups with a celebration & challenge

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Teachable moments. Students remember what you allow/ not what you don’t.

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Have student relate to a gif on the board to describe their day

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Mini check-ins (battery check)

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Committing to agreements so we can earn letters and students pick a celebration to do together

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Student calendar for important events, guess who game

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Beginning class with a Would You Rather or fun fact, students having an assigned spot, and acknowledging students by their name

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Asking students what they want to do in makerspace - how do they like to be creative.

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Engaging & relevant hooks, lessons & activities. Creating classroom promises & chants, celebrating all holidays & national heritage months

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Student leaders, opportunities to share about home life

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Agenda and goal on the board

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Referencing activities from lessons later in the day/week.

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Welcoming rituals, getting to know on a personal level, revisiting student interest, remembering important student events.

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Bus duty morning routine, morning greeting, classroom chant, morning slides / work

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Student represented throughout content and decor (birthdays, pictures)

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Check-ins, I wish my teacher knew, name activities, end of the day acknowledgments

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good morning with smile or hugs

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Providing students with choices and options that help them learn best

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Routines and expectations are built into each day. Students are held accountable with dignity.

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Greeting at the door, smile, bell ringer

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Greeting students at the door, question/prompts for the day to build community. Class agreements created together

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Consistency, structure, and accountability

Celebrate cultures, encourage students to do “hard things” for growth, view students’ individuality as a strength

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Students take on leadership roles around the classroom

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Daily interactions, personal interests, responding & revisiting routines / agreements— team building!

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Visual supports and calming tools/fidgets available

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Deliberately sharing ways in which I am supportive to that individual, restating purpose/intention.

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Sticking to routine, mystery reader bringing in a community connection

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Follow through

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Clear & high expectations, calming corner, lessons to support student problem solving skills

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Checking in on student feelings and problem solving in the moment. Encouraging collaboration and communication between students.

Create opportunities for student buy in to encourage engagement

rachelmartin1 — 2025-08-11 15:07:29 UTC

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Including music

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Check ins, facilitating student communication, teachable moments

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Building relationships. Understanding students, establishing vulnerability!

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Creating an agenda and sharing with students, along with clearly going over expectations

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Clear and consistent expectations throughout all classes that students enter

Utilize mindfulness strategies to help regulate for the day

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Routines, procedures, empathy, and care

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I hang an emoji chart at the door while greeting students and have them point to how they’re feeling when they walk into the classroom.

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Follow visual schedule